When you go to the doctor for a check-up, they check your reflexes usually by taking out a small rubber mallet and giving the tendon below your knee a lil tap-tap. When that happens, your leg, in automatic response, reflexively, kicks out in front, if the reflex is functional that is. When a bad thing…
You can also listen to this sermon and more from Mount Olive Lutheran Church on Spotify. Sermon Text: Luke 2:41-52 What do you want to be when you grow up? This question is not my favorite. Why do we have to choose just one thing? Why do you have to choose before we’ve even done…
You can also listen to this sermon and more from Mount Olive Lutheran Church on Spotify. Hope In The God Who Doesn’t Change We were putting the Christmas tree up and all that good stuff, pumping the tunes. As decorations were going up and people were smiling and it smelled of cinnamon and cheer, because of…
You can also listen to this sermon and more from Mount Olive Lutheran Church on Spotify. Free from Fear to Live in Jesus What’s it look like to live free of fear of judgment? The saying, “Dance like no one’s watching,” comes to mind. I don’t like it when people watch me dance. I get…
Sermon Text: God Loved Us First God is love. God loves us. We love because God loved us first. God’s love for you is Jesus suffering and dying in your place. Isaiah wrote, “Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer and though the LORD makes his life an…
Theme: Stand in Christ Ephesians 6:10-18 Download Life Guide Sun Tzu, a general, military genius, philosopher, and prolific writer was born about 544 B.C. during the Eastern Zhou period of 771-256 B.C. Sun Tzu is most closely associated with, “The Art of War.” In this compilation of his thoughts, he says things like, “All warfare…
Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9Theme: For the life of you, follow God “Why? Why? But, why? Whhyyy??!!” Have you ever had a conversation like this? With whom do you usually have such a conversation? Yes, that’s right, a 3 year-old. Very soon, you find that you run out of good answers and reasonable explanations because far faster…
Theme: The essential for life Jesus John 6:24-35 Why are you here? You better not say, “Well, it’s Sunday morning and going to church on Sunday is just what you’re supposed to do!” Being here isn’t another thing to do because it’s a cultural norm or expectation. You’re here to find Jesus! Why, though? What…
What do you imagine when you think of a kingdom? Maybe the European medieval version of a castle with mighty stone walls, tall parapets and towers, a big metal portcullis, and lots of knights in armor and weapons and colorful banners to impress and project an image of wealth, success, and power to be able…
Life Guide The hymn, “It Is Well” begins, “When peace like a river attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot Thou hast taught me to say, ‘It is well with my soul.’ ” How? How can it be well with a person’s soul when tornadoes destroy their house or while…