Luke 2:22-35 {Prayer} What child is this? Despite popular opinion of some around here, my favorite Christmas hymn is not Go Tell It on the Mountain but instead is What Child is This. Not only is this my favorite Christmas hymn, but it can easily be one of those questions pondered by expecting…
Matthew 5:14-16 {Prayer} With Christmas only a few days away, some of us will be traveling to see friends and loved ones. As with any trip, there is a certain amount of planning that needs to happen. We have to pack, figure out which way we’re going to, how many stops it may…
Leviticus 2:13 & Mark 9:50 {Prayer} The number one, most important ingredient for seasoning is … salt. While salt has it own unique taste, as a seasoning … it is like a chameleon in that can blend and balance a recipe’s flavor together like no other. Salt can reduce bitterness, increase and enhance…
Exodus 16:1-17 {Prayer} The season of Advent is a sacred time of anticipation and preparation. It’s a season of comings and goings, of traveling to visit loved ones, to return to places and people to whom we feel a belonging to. Songs of the season speak of these travels in joyous language. “Over…
John 18:33-37 {Prayer} Before I left for my hunting vacation this past week, I had this image of a compass in mind for today’s message. Now, I’m typically good with directions, especially when hunting in familiar terrain. But at my father-in-law’s farm, even at his house, I get completely turned around. I know…
Daniel 12:1-3 {Prayer} We’re starting to see it more and more. These eerie scenes, as if some kind of mass catastrophe unfolded overnight. It’s like a scene right out of a horror or sci-fi movie. Once vibrant figures now lie scattered across the ground, limp and lifeless. Just hours before, there had been…
1 Kings 17:8-24 {Prayer} Have you ever been driving and seen the low fuel light come on? For some of us, it happens more than we’d care to admit. I will admit, I’ve had the light come on a few times. But with our newer vehicles that tell us how far we…
Romans 1:17 {Prayer} Reformation Sunday is a time when we reflect on how blessed we are to have God’s Word available to us—in a language we can understand and at our fingertips with modern technology, accessible any time, day or night. But this hasn’t always been the case. During the 1500’s, during the time of…
Hebrews 4:1-13 {Prayer} Out on of our morning walks this past week, I told Jessica that I was going to be preaching on rest. She laughed at me and then said, “Who are you to be talking about rest?” In return I chuckled and was like, “Yeah, you’re probably right.” And while she…
Amos 5:6-7, 10-15 {Prayer} As time goes on, as different technological advances are made and with that, some things are becoming lost arts. For example … fewer and fewer people are writing letters. With fewer and fewer people writing letters or writing things out in general, other things are disappearing like calligraphy, cursive,…