Feb 15, 2017 | Blog
I prayed for President Trump during a recent Sunday morning worship service. The prayer prompted one man to ask following the service, “So, did your man win the election?” His wife tried to rescue me by interjecting, “Now you should not put the...
Feb 13, 2017 | Sermons
February 12, 2017 Matthew 5:4 Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the late 1800’s. In one of her poems she tried to capture what it must be like to be a person that cannot feel joy, love, hope, fear, grief, surprise, or even sadness. Of course, this...
Feb 5, 2017 | Sermons
Matthew 5:3 Years ago, I led a mission team to Liberia. Our mission was to restore the water supply at Ricks Institute begin, a Baptist school located 16 miles outside the capital of Monrovia. After 15 years of having no running water at the school, we wanted the...
Jan 29, 2017 | Blog
On a recent early morning walk in the woods, I was captivated by the sounds around me. The frost-covered rye grass crunched beneath my feet. The wind swished through the loblolly pines. The crows “cawed” to each other in a language only they understand. We would...
Jan 22, 2017 | Sermons
Genesis 6:9-22 January 22 Once you get past the coloring book and the puzzle phase of life, the story of Noah and the Ark stops becoming a sweet children’s story and carries a lot of theological freight. If you didn’t grow up hearing this story, it may be met with...
