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...
Oct 22, 2016 | Sermons
2 Corinthians 8:1-15 October 16, 2016 My wife and I just returned from Maine where we spent part of our time in Acadia National Park, the largest national park east of the Mississippi River. The park is on an island that was once inhabited by the Wabaniki Indians and...
Sep 25, 2016 | Sermons
2 Kings 5:1-9 Recently Justin Morrow flew me from the Jackson County Airport to the Troy Memorial Airport in Troy, Alabama so I could attend and speak at my high school English teacher’s funeral following our own church services here last month. Justin is a...
Sep 18, 2016 | Sermons
My son John played middle school football. Let me rephrase that. My son John was on the middle school football team for one season. He played a total of five plays the entire season. The team did not win a single game. After we had gotten beat by over thirty...
Sep 11, 2016 | Sermons
Letting Go of Hate Romans 12: 9-12 Today marks the 15th Anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon and lives lost when passengers aboard another plane likely kept it from crashing into another landmark, possibly the Capitol, as it crashed into a...
Aug 28, 2016 | Sermons
August 28, 2016 Psalm 42 There was a time when depression was as foreign to me as using chopsticks to eat my meals, but then one day it knocked on the door of my house. As a husband I struggled to understand my role in helping my wife let go of something that had...
