March 23, 2025 You might sit here today look around and think “Everybody looks good. Their lives must be perfect.” But you can’t just look at someone and know what’s going on. Like, you don’t know that I got stopped by the police a week ago. Now you know! I didn’t come to a fullContinue reading “Turn to God “
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Sorrow over Jerusalem
March 16, 2025 Have you ever been misidentified? Someone thought of you as something you weren’t? When I was younger, and a pastor, a few times a stranger stopped by church to drop something off, while talking with me said, “Oh, I didn’t know you were the pastor. I thought you were the office girl.”Continue reading “Sorrow over Jerusalem “
Tempted in the Wilderness
March 9, 2025 Today we’re starting a new sermon series, Following Jesus on the Road to the Cross. We start today with Jesus tempted in the wilderness. I can really relate to temptation! If there’s candy sitting right in front of me, I REALLY want it. If I put it where I won’t see it,Continue reading “Tempted in the Wilderness “
A Better Way: When You’ve Given Up on Prayer
February 2, 2025 How many of you would say you believe in the power of prayer? A lot of us! You believe God hears your prayers, and that prayer can be effective. But you would say, you probably don’t pray as often as you should? Or here’s another question, how many believe in the powerContinue reading “A Better Way: When You’ve Given Up on Prayer”
A Better Way: Your Best Days are Now
January 26, 2025 Today’s a great day! Not just because it’s finally above freezing. This is one amazing day! We get to gather together and worship God! We know where two or more are here, God is in our midst! This is the best day! It’s remarkable! I hope you’re feeling joy at God’s goodnessContinue reading “A Better Way: Your Best Days are Now”
A Better Way: When You’re Too Busy for What Matters
January 12, 2025 We’re in a sermon series called A Better Way. Jesus said I am the way and the truth and the life. As Christians, we talk more about how Jesus is the truth, and He is the life. But we don’t talk so much about how Jesus is the Way. But he’s theContinue reading “A Better Way: When You’re Too Busy for What Matters”
A Better Way: When you don’t like who you’re becoming
January 5, 2025 Today we’re starting a new sermon series called: “A Better Way!” We’ll talk about a problem we face. We all have different problems, but our problems lead to us wondering about something. This a question you might not expect a pastor to ask. But I’m going to ask you this: Do youContinue reading “A Better Way: When you don’t like who you’re becoming”
The Magi: We have come to worship him
December 29, 2024 I hope you had a good Christmas! Today what I want to do is talk to you about worshipping God. In the Christmas story, the magi say, “We have come to worship him.” They want to show reverence to Jesus. What I love about them is they didn’t come to get somethingContinue reading “The Magi: We have come to worship him”
Making Room
Christmas Eve, 2024 It seem to me it’s a bummer that Jesus was born in a stable, where it’s smelly and dirty! But we don’t know that it was a stable. The Scripture does not say that there were animals there. It just says Jesus was laid in a manger, which is a feeding troughContinue reading “Making Room”
Why Christmas? To Close the Distance
December 22, 2024 Like many of you, I love Christmas! One reason I’ll be happy on Christmas Day is my family gathering is not complicated. Hopefully you have a family that isn’t complicated. When my parents were living, Kevin, I and our kids often went to Ohio to celebrate Christmas with family. My parents, brotherContinue reading “Why Christmas? To Close the Distance”
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