In church history, there arises from time to time, seasons of persecution. We’ll look this week at the very first season of church persecution that began in Jerusalem when the church was only weeks old. Read more…
Life in Analogies
The longer I preach, the more analogies I see everywhere I look, and especially in my own life.
For instance, earlier this week I woke up with that dreaded super raw throat that I get when I suffer from drainage all night as I sleep.
I took medicine for three days to try to kick what was increasingly feeling like a sinus infection, and I progressively got worse, not better. Read more…
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Resolutions?
Do I dare ask? How are your New Year’s resolutions coming along? Did you make any to break? Are you still going strong or have you already utterly failed? Read more…
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Bad News First
There’s a consistent preaching method we see in the New Testament that many preachers have gotten away from these days.
I don’t think it has a specific name, so I’ll call it, “Bad News First Preaching.” Read more…
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Focus on Jesus
One thing that the Apostles of Jesus learned to do, eventually, was to focus on Jesus. We remember back to the hard lesson that began to be learned by Peter and the Apostles when Peter attempted to walk to Jesus on the water (see Matthew 14).
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Fun With 2023!
As is our New Year tradition, let’s look at every Book of the Bible with 20 chapters and 23 verses and see what’s in there – Read more…
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The Second Greatest Gift
I truly believe that the greatest gift that can be shared with another person is the knowledge of Jesus. That’s part of why it’s so exciting to me to be preaching on Christmas day this year.
But if Jesus is the greatest gift, what is the second greatest gift? Read more…
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The Impossible
When one sits down and tries to describe the Lord, there is immediately a great problem. It cannot be done.
The Grand Canyon is magnificent and it cannot be described in words. The Lord our God is far and wide and beyond the imagination more magnificent than The Grand Canyon. How does one even begin? Read more…
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The Hard Questions
Some questions cannot be answered simply, but that doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be answered. The problem is, we live in a world where complicated answers are often not tolerated. Read more…
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The Church?
As we’ve been studying the birth of the Lord’s Church in the first chapters of the Book of Acts, and discussing how the ideal thing for us is to capture the same essence, the same attitudes, and the same devotions as the first century Church, you may have noticed a word that is conspicuously missing from the text. Read more…
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