Micah 1:1-4 {Prayer} John Glenn learned how to fly fighter jets as he completed 59 missions in World War II and 90 missions in the Korean War. John Glenn learned to fly fast as he was the first pilot to fly at supersonic speed. John Glenn learned how to fly into outer space. In…
Deuteronomy 8:1-10 {Prayer} When everything is going along great, it’s easy to just keep on going and act as if nothing could possibly go wrong. Listen to this story I found as I was working on this sermon. Among the thrilling stories told in connection with the search of gold in the Klondike, in the…
Revelation 5:1-14 {Prayer} When you hear of heaven, what do you think of? Clouds, chubby little cherub angels flying around with cute bow and arrows? Maybe brilliant colors far richer than anything found on earth? Where do we get these ideas of what heaven will be like? For most people, their ideas come…
Matthew 25:14-30 {Prayer} As I was struggling in developing this sermon, I came across a devotional from an old professor of mine which I want to use as a guide as we go through Jesus’ parable of the talents from our gospel lesson this morning. At first glance, when we read this parable,…
Matthew 25:1-13 {Prayer} As we draw closer to the end of the church year, you might have noticed that our readings take a turn toward the end times, to that “Day of the Lord” as Amos put it in our Old Testament reading. Well, you all know how my mind likes to wander at…
{Prayer} To refresh our memories, I want to read our sermon text again from 1 John 3. “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not…