Nov 13, 2016 | Sermons
November 13, 2016 One of my favorite baseball stories doesn’t involve big-name stars on a major league baseball team. It’s about a boy just starting to play the game. The story appeared a few years ago in “Sports Illustrated.” ...
Nov 6, 2016 | Sermons
November 6, 2016 Ezekiel 37:1-10 When Phil Hansen was in art school he developed a shake in his hand so that he could no longer draw a straight line. He saw this as the destruction of his dream of becoming an artist. ...
Nov 2, 2016 | Sermons
John 3:16-18 When I was a boy, my father made me a treehouse in a pecan tree behind the house trailer where we lived. One summer a blue jay built a nest in the tree and I would climb up and check on the status of the new tenants. I watched the new arrivals develop...
Oct 27, 2016 | Blog
I doubt I will ever play this fool again, Tizzy, my alter ego. Even before the recent insane outbreak of scary clowns that have terrorized children across the country, coulrophobia has been on the rise, mainly because of the use of clowns in a deranged way in movies,...
Oct 23, 2016 | Sermons
Genesis 22:1-13 I confess that I have rarely preached on this text. I never liked God’s request of Abraham to sacrifice Isaac as if he were just another animal for the altar. Nor have I liked Abraham’s unwavering obedience to do it. There–I said it. Now let...
