John 21 {Prayer} Once I start a project, it needs to be completed. I don’t like leaving things half done. Now granted, even though I may go through all the planning steps and think I have considered every option, something unexpected happens and throws my timetable off. But it’s just a slight delay.…
John 21:1-19 {Prayer} One of my favorite movies is Gone in 60 Seconds. It’s about a brother who gave up stealing cars to protect his family to stealing cars in order to save his brother’s life. My favorite car in the movie, my dream car, is a 1967 Shelby GT 500 Ford…
John 10:22-30 {Prayer} Let me tell you a story. There is a couple, lets call them Melissa and Brad. Melissa and Brad are going to have a baby. Brad says Melissa has become much more intentional about talking to their son. In one of their pregnancy books, Melissa read how babies can…
John 21:1-14 {Prayer} They’d been out there all night … casting, straining, waiting. For all their toil … they came up with nothing. No food. Nothing to show for the effort. Don’t you just hate moments like that. You do all the right things, you’re working as hard as you can, and…
John 20:19-31 {Prayer} It’s dark outside and you’re home alone. The doors of the house are locked and the garage door is closed. Engrossed in a movie or a book … the outside world doesn’t exist. That is until BAM! All of a sudden there is this noise! BAM! Your mind is racing,…
John 20:1-18 {Prayer} “I know ________.” There are so many ways we could fill in that blank. The philosopher Socrates completed the sentence by saying, “I know that I know nothing.” Very philosophical like of him. Sherlock Holmes once said, “I know what is good when I see it.” And the Old Testament…
{Prayer} A couple of phrases that bother me the most as a parent are, “do I have too?” and “I did it last time, it’s their turn.” So, my wife came up with a brilliant idea in order to resolve this problem. We have a magnet on the front of the dishwasher and…
John 1:1-14 {Prayer} As many of you know, I love to go deer hunting. Even if I don’t get the opportunity to shoot anything, I just love being out in the woods and soaking up the wonderful creation that God has blessed us with. Of all the times to hunt, I would say…
John 18:33-37 {Prayer} Before I left for my hunting vacation this past week, I had this image of a compass in mind for today’s message. Now, I’m typically good with directions, especially when hunting in familiar terrain. But at my father-in-law’s farm, even at his house, I get completely turned around. I know…
John 17:1-11 {Prayer} Scene 3 of Act 1 of one of William Shakespeare’s most popular, well-known plays in the world is iconic. In Scene 3 of Act 1, Hamlet says, “To be, or not to be? That is the question—Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous…