Jun 10, 2016 | Blog
Alex Haley’s miniseries “Roots” in 1977 was my first understanding of family systems on a macro level. I certainly would not have used the term “family systems” in the ninth grade, but I knew that Roots was about my family system as much as it was about the roots of...
Jun 5, 2016 | Sermons
During the civil war, Jackson County lost 40 men and 36 came home physically wounded. What we now know about war is that many more came home psychologically damaged. Our country was scarred from a battle that lasted four years as we turned on each other, killing...
Jun 4, 2016 | Blog
Jesse and Jessica Phillips have not even reached their mid twenties. They have been married less than three years. Yet they have set out on an adventure that has taken them far away from their New Sharon, Iowa home. They are now missionaries in Africa. Many people...
May 29, 2016 | Sermons
Mark 5:22-43 A friend once asked Isidor Rabi, a Nobel prize winner in science, how he became a scientist. Rabi replied that every day after school his mother would talk to him about his day. Instead of asking him what he had learned that day, she always inquired,...
May 22, 2016 | Sermons
Matthew 6:24-34 In 1979 the Coca Cola Company created a soft drink called Mello Yello. They wanted to portray the image that if you drank this soft drink you could mellow out – you could become detached from worry and stress and relax for a little while. I think...
