Download Life Guide Download Leader’s Life Guide Download Family Guide In the name of our Good Shepherd, Happy Mother’s Day! Mother’s Day is a great day because we all get a chance to remember or thank and honor our mothers. And you have two choices for how you’re going to do that. I could live […]
Download Life Guide Download Leader’s Life Guide Download KID’s Life Guide CHRIST IS RISEN! He is risen indeed. The Easter story from Luke chapter 24. 1 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the […]
Download Life Guide Today we’re looking at Jesus most famous parable, the story of the prodigal son which he told to two groups: sinners and Pharisees; Israel’s most hated and Israel’s most self-righteous. And most people interpret it as a feel-good story to comfort the sinners—and it is that. But that’s not the main point. […]
Download Life Guide In the name of him who loves you, who longs for you, who will come for you, dear Christian friends, The young woman plopped herself onto the couch in my office in the dormitory. She wasn’t sure if she wanted her fiancé to become her husband. She loved him and he loved […]
What Jesus wants is not complicated. What Jesus wants is short and simple. “This is my will, my one command, that love should dwell in each in all.” In fact it’s so simple that we can express it in three words of truth. All our Wednesday night Lenten service will focus on Three Words of […]
Download Life Guide One of my pastor-friends recently told me his whole philosophy of ministry could be summed up by an REM song: Everybody hurts. I think he’s right. What hurts in your life? Let me ask it a better way: If Jesus shook your hand after the service, what would you ask him to […]
Download Life Guide He was 80 years old when he saw the Nile river turn to blood. He saw the firstborn all the Egyptians die, and he saw his own firstborn saved by the blood of a lamb. He saw the Red Sea split in two and the Israelites walk across on dry ground. He […]
Download Life Guide The perfect guy is a stock character from lots of stories. He might look different depending on girl and the situation. Here’s a few examples. Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy from Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice is chivalrous and dignified, considerate and romantic, the perfect guy for the 19th century, the perfect guy […]
You saw in the children’s sermon, there was the mother and the baby and the dragon. Maybe some of you kids were thinking “Pastor, why did you say there was a dragon at Christmas?” But to be honest, I just said it because God said it in Revelation 12. Why would God put this in […]