Genesis 3:1-21 Satan is patient, stoking the power of evil that he believes is stronger than God. He devises a scheme and becomes one with a snake. And there he waits. He will wait as long it takes to entrap and ensnare. And so, he waits. He waits for Eve to walk past the Tree…
John 3:1-17 {Prayer} Some things, no matter how much time is spent on studying and research … some things, some things are just a mystery. Take for example the Kryptos. Kryptos is a mysterious encrypted sculpture which sits right outside the headquarters of the CIA in Langley, Virginia. So mysterious this is, not even…
John 16:5-15 {Prayer} Betrayal … Denial … Hatred … Harassment … Grief. These five words … these five words could easily describe the plot line of really any daytime soap opera. These five words … they can also describe the emotional status of the disciples. Let me explain. Before the ascension…
Acts 1:1-11 {Prayer} To quote a well-known commercial … “How do you eat an Oreo cookie?” I know, that sounds pretty random, but you should know by now that my mind sometimes comes up with some weird ideas. As I was reading through our text from Acts 1, as well as some other…
John 15:9-17 {Prayer} Have you ever been asked, especially by someone who may not be connected to a church or who may not even be a Christian … “Why are you doing that?” Something similar happened at the Easter Egg Hunt this year. One of the little ones there was so excited to…
John 15:1-8 {Prayer} Whenever I have gone away on a youth trip, mission trip, or a hunting trip … as much as I look forward to them and enjoy myself on them … there is also this voice in the back of my head which says, “Don’t call home.” Now it’s not that I…
1 John 3:16-18 {Prayer} Have you ever tried to fit a square peg into a round hole? Pretty much impossible right? In order to do it there has to be some major alterations. In the one of my favorite movies, one which may get a lot of dad jokes developed from being that…
Luke 24:36-49 {Prayer} Nothing intensifies a night out camping quite like a good ole fashion ghost story. Sitting around the campfire with the flames dancing up through the wood casting all kinds of shadows on the trees above and around you, having someone holding a flashlight up from under face, and then tell you…
Zechariah 14:8-11 {Prayer} Cities spend big bucks on marketing. In the 1970’s New York City was in chaos. Crime was running wild. As a means of scaring off tourists, unions across the city actually ran a campaign called “Welcome to Fear City”. Tourists were told that they should “stay away from New York City if…
Zechariah 12:10-14 {Prayer} “God is dead.” This is what a 19th century German philosopher by the name of Friedrich Nietzsche said. The expression, “God is dead,” is famously associated with Nietzsche’s book titled Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche used the phrase figuratively. Zechariah, however, used the phrase literally. God. Is. Dead. But really? That’s…