Are you proud? How many times has God asked you to do something, and you have either not done it or have done it halfway? Do you know why that is? It’s pride. When we do this, we’re saying, “I’m god of my life, and I know what’s best for me in this situation.”
The problem…
Just as with mindfulness that we looked more closely at in last week’s sermon, we have one more virtue I’ll be talking about in my Christian Character class that will help us better love others with the love of Christ, but isn’t something we often think about in Biblical terms. We understand…
Last week I talked about the Good Samaritan as an example of how we read through Scripture the good we want to do, and see how it should be done, but we often fall short when it comes to practicing that good and doing it to our neighbor. We call this the Goodness Gap, and we saw that when we…
I’m going to just jump right in to my passage this morning, which you’ll find in Luke 10:25-37, and I hope you’ll follow along with me either in your Bible or Bible app.
“On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inhe…
I was reading in 2 Thessalonians this week, finishing my trek through Paul’s letter to the church in Thessalonica. I was in chapter 3, just the beginning part of that chapter, and there is a really great phrase there in verse 3 that I just kept coming back to. There, Paul says, “But the Lord…
Guest Preacher: Allison Storch
I’m always amazed at the passages that God leads me to for the first Sunday in the new year. It’s almost never what I expect. It’s usually not passages about newness in Christ. And it’s usually not something that you might expect to hear to usher in a new year, but He always brings me to som…
My message this morning is one I know I’ve preached before and I will likely preach again, though from a different passage no doubt. But I urge you not to just tune it out because it may be a familiar topic. Instead, use this time as a chance to let the Lord examine your heart and mind, and …
If I were to say to you, Jeremiah 29, you’d probably think of Jeremiah 29:11, “‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for prosperity and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.’” This is a great verse, and a great promise, that many …
“Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, my soul. 2 I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. 3 Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save. 4 When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come…
I’ve been thinking about some of the lyrics to John Lennon’s “Happy Christmas”. He sang, “So this is Christmas, and what have you done? Another year over, a new one just begun.” With just a few days left in the year, many people start thinking about what they did this year, goals they accomp…
Guest Preacher: Dr. Larry Lacher
Guest Preacher Reverend Arnie Leidy
Guest Preacher Allison Storch
This morning we’re going to take a pause on the book of John and the conversations we’ve been looking at where we find out who Jesus said He is. This morning, I want to start by reading Psalm 119:36, “Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.” (NIV)
The …
Last Sunday, as you’ve already heard through our announcements this morning, we had a board meeting. Before the beginning of each board meeting, our board members take turns bringing a devotion to set all of our hearts and minds on Christ and get us in the right frame of mind for the meeting…
Guest Preacher Allison Storch preaching from Ephesians 6:10-18.
What’s so important about praying together?
That’s the question we’re looking at today, and we’re going to start to answer this question by looking at a fairly familiar passage. I’d love for you to join me in Philippians 4:4-9.
“Rejoice in the Lord always. I will …
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