Life is full of obstacles. Obstacles come in all shapes and sizes. Obstacles can stop us in our tracks and cause us to turn back. Obstacles have a tendency to keep us from experiencing some of the greatest moments in
The past two weeks I’ve been watching the US Olympic trials in swimming, track and field, and gymnastics. There are forty-six sports in all that have been holding their championships recently to see who will represent the United States next
Last weekend we celebrated Father’s Day. I’ve known fathers who have made incredible sacrifices for the sake of their family. Like many kids, I didn’t realize it growing up, but my own dad made huge sacrifices to be able to
Obstacles are part of life. No person who has ever lived has been able to escape the reality of obstacles standing in their way. Some of you who are here this morning are dealing with obstacles even now. For all
During the past two weeks, as I’ve been studying 1 Corinthians 8, I’ve been thinking about the debate going on in the church at Corinth. The question revolved around the issue of eating meat that had been sacrificed to idols.
Life is filled with questions. Each and every day people all over the world are confronted with questions about life and the decisions that need to be made. What complicates our decision making process is that there are just so
Somehow we have become convinced that happiness, contentment in life, must be somewhere other than where we are and “in” something different than what we are presently experiencing. For those who struggle financially, we believe that if we could just
We are going back to 1 Corinthians 7 this week so we can continue our study of “love, sex, singleness, and marriage.” This is our third week on the subject and I have to tell you that at the beginning
Last week we began a study of 1 Corinthians 6:12-7:40, a study of love, sex, singleness, and marriage. We were able to cover 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 last week and discovered that unlike the Greek and Roman cultures, and unlike our
