Mar 3, 2015 | Sermons
Matthew 18:2-4; 1 Corinthians 13:4-13 How many of you remember your first birthday? All of you had one, but none of you remember it. Yet I bet most of you had an experience like this. Someone baked you a cake with lots of icing and put a single candle on the cake....
Feb 22, 2015 | Sermons
Matthew 15:1-20 When I was a child my mother would say, “It’s time to eat. Go wash your hands and come to the table.” Washing our hands before we ate was as much a part of our mealtime ritual as praying, or eating what was set before us without complaining, or no...
Feb 18, 2015 | Sermons
As Bill Powell stood in line to get a hot dog on the busy streets of New York City, the hotdog vender said, “You don’t sound like you’re from around here. Where are you from?” “I’m from Georgia. There’s a group of us here...
Feb 17, 2015 | Sermons
Psalm 38:17-18 Luke 19:1-10 Somewhere back there in your sandbox days, you did something wrong that was clearly a violation of sandbox rules. Perhaps you pushed your friend down so you could ride the big wheel. You might have buried his G.I. Joe and pretended you...
Feb 5, 2015 | Sermons
Leviticus 6:1-6 Sandy and Rick Jones traveled with Dustin and Leslie, Mattie, and Sara through the state of Mississippi during the Christmas holidays, walking through cemeteries in the pouring rain, tracing down leads from records of their ancestors obtained in old...
Feb 1, 2015 | Sermons
Luke 19: 1-10 When parents who have children invite others over for a meal, they play a little game with their guests called, “Welcome to our clean house.” To have a clean house you have to start cleaning three to five days in advance and you have to remove the...