Sermon Archive (Page 16)

“Stuck in the Middle”

Acts 1:1-11 {Prayer}             To quote a well-known commercial … “How do you eat an Oreo cookie?”             I know, that sounds pretty random, but you should know by now that my mind sometimes comes up with some weird ideas.  As I was reading through our text from Acts 1, as well as some other…

“Jesus as Friend?”

John 15:9-17 {Prayer}             Have you ever been asked, especially by someone who may not be connected to a church or who may not even be a Christian … “Why are you doing that?”              Something similar happened at the Easter Egg Hunt this year.  One of the little ones there was so excited to…

“Pruning Hurts”

John 15:1-8 {Prayer}             Whenever I have gone away on a youth trip, mission trip, or a hunting trip … as much as I look forward to them and enjoy myself on them … there is also this voice in the back of my head which says, “Don’t call home.”  Now it’s not that I…

“Living for Others”

1 John 3:16-18 {Prayer}             Have you ever tried to fit a square peg into a round hole?  Pretty much impossible right?  In order to do it there has to be some major alterations.             In the one of my favorite movies, one which may get a lot of dad jokes developed from being that…

“Not Your Average Ghost Story”

Luke 24:36-49 {Prayer}             Nothing intensifies a night out camping quite like a good ole fashion ghost story.  Sitting around the campfire with the flames dancing up through the wood casting all kinds of shadows on the trees above and around you, having someone holding a flashlight up from under face, and then tell you…

“New Jerusalem”

Zechariah 14:8-11 {Prayer} Cities spend big bucks on marketing.  In the 1970’s New York City was in chaos.  Crime was running wild.  As a means of scaring off tourists, unions across the city actually ran a campaign called “Welcome to Fear City”.  Tourists were told that they should “stay away from New York City if…

“God is Dead”

Zechariah 12:10-14 {Prayer}             “God is dead.”  This is what a 19th century German philosopher by the name of Friedrich Nietzsche said.  The expression, “God is dead,” is famously associated with Nietzsche’s book titled Thus Spoke Zarathustra.  Nietzsche used the phrase figuratively.             Zechariah, however, used the phrase literally.  God.  Is.  Dead.  But really?  That’s…

“Expectation Meets Reality”

Zechariah 9:9-10 {Prayer}             Expectations meet reality.  The sandwich looked good on the menu, but it didn’t look good when it was served.  You thought you had taken a great picture, but now you want a retake.  You thought loading the car for the trip would be easy, but your children wanted to bring way…

“Forgiven Traitors”

Luke 22:1:6 {Prayer}             Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, Guy Fawkes, Robert Ford, Judas Iscariot … these four all have something in common with each other.  They are all traitors.             Marcus Junius Brutus, often referred to simply as Brutus, was a Roman senator who served under Julius Caesar.  He is best known from Shakespeare’s…