Matthew 18:1-14 “What Does It Mean to be Great?” {Prayer} Little kids, especially babies, aren’t they just the most precious things you’ve ever seen? I mean really, the cuteness radar just goes off the scale! There are not many people who pass up the opportunity to hold a baby and just snuggle or…
Job 38:12-13 {Prayer} Over the course of my ministry, and I’m sure Pastor Meyer could say the same thing, I can sit or stand in front of my computer, read books, read devotions, read sermon help files and still struggle to come up with an idea or develop a sermon. But yet there…
Matthew 14:22-33 {Prayer} Have you ever thought what it would be like to be a disciple of Jesus? Now I’m not talking about being a disciple of Jesus today, but being one of the original twelve disciples back when Jesus actually was walking around in person. Have you ever wondered what it would…
Psalm 125 {Prayer} Sunrises, sunsets, vibrant color of spring and summer flowers, bright colors of leaves in the fall, frost and snow covering tree branches … World Series Champions, Super Bowl Champions, Stanley Cup Champions … homes, jobs, steady income … high metabolism, loads of energy, natural hair color, good health. All of…
Acts 17:16-34 “God Is Great” {Prayer} Mysteries … everyone joys a good mystery every now and then right? There is something about a mystery, something about trying to figure out the unknown which draws people in. How is this story going to end? How is this movie going to end? Who did it? …
Jeremiah 28:1-9 {Prayer} Try to picture this … One morning you walk out the door of your little house in the middle of Israel. As you stand there in the door way with your morning cup of coffee … okay, not really sure they had coffee in Israel but I like the…
Exodus 19:1-9 “First Encounters” {Prayer} First impressions … first impressions are huge. First impressions play a large role especially in the world of human resources. As a Human Resource Manager for a private food manufacturing company before going to seminary and becoming a pastor, how the application looked when I received it made…
Numbers 11:24-30 (ESV)24 So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. And he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tent. 25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders.…
Acts 16:31 (ESV)31 And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” I came across an illustration I want to share with you this morning and no, it has nothing to do with 1987 song by Starship or the movie Mannequin. I know some of you when you saw…
John 14:1-14 (ESV)I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life14 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I…