Pastor’s Blog
Our Champion
A famous passage, so famous that people who have never read the Bible know the entire story. Actually there is a show right now out on prime called “House of David” that, from what I’ve read, takes some pretty steep liberties to the real story. I find this to be a big...
A God of Love
You will get a lot of mixed answers today if you asked people how they would describe God. Time magazine asked a number of people how they pictured God. Here was one response: God is “a lot like he was explained to us as children. As an older man, who is just and who...
Weakness is Your Greatest Strength
A young boy sat in church and watched as the offering plate was being passed. Wanting to give something, he reached inside his pocket for something to put in. To his dismay, he had nothing inside. As the plate was passed down the row and came to him, he put the plate...
The Empty Tomb
The main idea today is this: unless you empty yourself, the empty tomb has nothing for you. We empty the power of Christ's resurrection if we don’t empty ourselves. Has anyone ever played monopoly? I love monopoly, it is one of my favorite board games. Well, my wife...
Praying God’s Way
I have heard a lot of questions about prayer from folks in our church during this season of prayer and fasting that we have been doing as a church. Prayer can be a hard concept to grasp. It is quite literally, otherworldly. But let me ask you a question today: do you...
What Are You Made Of?
There is a lot of talk today about what goes into our food. I don’t know about you, but I rarely am able to pronounce 50% of the ingredients in some of the products on the shelves these days. Words that seem like they are made up. Which, quite frankly, is a good...
The Power of Christ’s Holiness
Holiness can be a scary word sometimes. We see our inadequacies, where we fall short. There is a negative term out there, “holier than thou”. Have you ever heard of it or used it in a negative way towards somebody? “Oh, he or she thinks they are holier than thou...
Look to Christ and Live
Evangelist Robert L. Sumner told the story of a man from Kansas City who was severely injured in an explosion on the job. It injured him so much that his face was badly burned and he lost both of his hands and his eyesight. It was a tragic event. Of all of his loss...
Believing God’s Report
I don’t know about you, but there are a lot of reports in this world of information we live in. I read a pretty funny one the other day… You’ve got to love the internet. On Thursday March 6th, an article came out of a woman on Tiktok (of course) who is eating packing...
What Can Jesus Do?
The feeding of the 5,000 is a very famous passage. In fact, this is only the miracle, besides the resurrection, that takes place in all 4 of the gospels. David Platt: “Perhaps no story in the Bible, other than the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, confronts us with...
Who Is Your God?
We all serve something. In fact, some of us serve things and we don’t even know it. In Exodus 34:14, God declares that he is a jealous God and that we should worship no other god than him. Do you have a god other than the Lord that you serve? Does anybody here know...
What You’ve Been Given
This parable today is one of the longest parables that we find in the gospel of Matthew. It is one of the three that Jesus gave to warn people of the suddenness of his coming. His coming can refer to an eschatological coming, at the end of the age, or our personal...