Is Life After Death a Fairytale?
1 Cor. 15:35-42 Recently, Stephen Hawking, the world’s most famous scientist died at age 76. Hawking was diagnosed with ALS at age 21 and was one of the world’s oldest survivors with this devastating disease. He was able to move only a couple of fingers and he could...
The Lessons The Broccoli Tree Have for Easter
Easter Sunrise Service One spring day a photographer living near the Southern shore of Lake Vattern, Sweden took a picture of a tree and posted it on Instagram because he thought it looked like a stalk of broccoli sticking up out of the ground. Forty-three people...
This Is How People Know You Are a Disciple
For most of us, the thought of washing someone’s feet is repulsive unless it is someone we know really, really well and even then we are not very willing. A few years ago, I served as the camp pastor at a youth camp at Ricks Institute, which is sixteen miles outside...
What is Your M.I.T?
Matt. 6:19-34 March 25, 2018 Back in my youth minister years, some Sunday evenings the teenagers would show up for a field trip. I did not tell them ahead of time where we were going. Each field trip was a surprise and each destination served a teaching purpose. One...