Joel 2:12-13 {Prayer} In our more contemporary society, we don’t really encounter ashes. We live in a culture which sanitizes pretty much everything. Anything unsightly, like ashes, have been removed from view. At one time, vehicles use to come with ash trays and cigarette lighters, but now there is a USB port and…
Matthew 17:1-9 {Prayer} For some reason, maybe it was the accent and the obscure timing of the question, but I have always loved this commercial. Show clip. Here you got the poor guy trying to enjoy the finer pleasure of life with his meal and he is rudely interrupted. I’m sure he really enjoyed…
Matthew 5:21-37 {Prayer} A quick show of hands, how many of you have ever heard of “house rules”? By definition, “house rules” are the rules which people make in order to live together in some kind of peace and harmony. Sometimes they are posted on the fridge, written out on a marker board,…
Matthew 5:13-20 {Prayer} I am a fan of storms. I love to watch storms approach, I love to listen to the rain, watch the lightening and feel the rumble of the thunder. Probably one of the eeriest things to me though is when it’s evening time, that storm outside is doing the things…
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 {Prayer} Our sermon text this morning is from Deuteronomy 30:19-20 which says, “This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may life and that you may…
Isaiah 49:1-7 {Prayer} Eating breakfast around our table one day this week, my family and I got on the topic somehow of why is it that babies cry when they are born. Maybe we got on the topic because it was cold in our house, which is what Jessica and Faith think all…
Matthew 2:1-12 {Prayer} If you have ever put up crown molding in your house and went to the extent of coping the corner pieces together, you know how difficult of a task that can be. First off, if you don’t know what coping is, it is a woodworking technique of shaping the end of…
Luke 2:21 {Prayer} Some people choose to find out if they are having a boy or a girl before he or she is born while others choose not to. Gender reveal parties are now a pretty common thing and there are so many different ways in which people do them. You can spend…
Isaiah 40:28-31 {Prayer} Many of us have come to love the Christmas carol “O Holy Night.” First written in 1843 by a French poet, the lyrics were translated into English only a few years later by an American pastor. The carol’s initial popularity is often traced to its third stanza which is cherished by…
Genesis 12:2 {Prayer} Imagine that two of your friends are attending the Blues hockey game at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis. The game is being televised and you’re watching it at home. You know your friends are there and wonder if by chance you might spot them somewhere near the Blues bench…