Hope “I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a
Grateful? Thankful?
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
It has been some kind of year hasn’t it? I remember when we were ending 2019 and looking into 2020 with such hope and expectation. We had no idea did we? We had no idea that Covid was on the
It’s All About The Presentation
1 Corinthians 2:1-5
There are those people who are able to take the twenty-six letters of the alphabet and craft them into words, assemble the words into smooth sounding sentences, add rhythm and rhyme, some emotion and inflection, and take their audience wherever
The Church of Nobodies
1 Corinthians 1:26-31
Connie and I were in Dallas yesterday. I went to speak at the funeral of a friend, a friend who was in my youth group when I was the Youth Pastor at First Christian Church in Plano, Texas. Big George
Utter Foolishness
1 Corinthians 1:18-25
What is wisdom? What is foolishness? These are important questions that people in every generation have to answer. These two questions are before us today and they were before the people who lived in Corinth in the first century. What
1 Corinthians 1:10-17
Divisions Among You
In John 17, Jesus was on His face in prayer within the shadow of the cross. Shortly after He ended His time in prayer, those who would arrest Him appeared in the Garden of Gethsemane. Knowing He was facing the
Looking Through The Lens of Grace
1 Corinthians 1:1-9
In the book of Revelation, there are seven churches in Revelation 2-3 that receive a letter written by John, but dictated by Jesus. In each of the letters, Jesus had something important to say to the seven churches. Jesus told
The Revelation of Jesus Christ
Revelation 1:4-20
“We Preach Christ…”
Introduction to 1 Corinthians
For as long as I have been a follower of Jesus, I have heard about how irrelevant the Bible is for modern-day people. They say, “It was written so long ago by people who knew absolutely nothing about what life
Broken Promises
Nehemiah 13
We started our journey with Ezra and Nehemiah one year ago this week. From exile in Babylon we made trip after trip with Zerubbabel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and the groups of courageous men and women who traveled with them back to
