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? …
Exodus 20:17 Dear Friends in Christ, The human body…a subject that I have to confess has fascinated me ever since I took an anatomy and physiology course in college. It is a masterpiece of intelligent design. It is amazing how all of its different parts – heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, muscles, bones, nerves, skin,…
Psalm 11:3 Dear Friends in Christ, At one time it was one of the most, if not the most powerful, productive, and proficient empires the world had ever seen or known. It lasted just over 500 years. It encompassed an incredible 2.2 million square miles. Because of its many conquests, its population swelled from…
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…
James 1:16-17 Dear Friends in Christ, Sometime ago I understand there was an opening in our government’s Central Intelligence Agency – the CIA – that opening, that position was for an assassin—a person who would kill without hesitation those that the CIA deemed a threat to national security. As you might well…
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…
Daniel 3:16-18 (ESV) 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. 18 But if not,…
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.…
Exodus 20:16 ESV16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. Dear Friends in Christ, Most of you here today have probably heard the phrase, “the shot heard round the world,” and you might even remember from your days in history class that this was the first shot fired in Boston back in April of…
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…