When we hear things we don’t want to hear, we may become angry. Depending on our maturity, may retort with phrases like, “I know you are, but what am I?” or “I’m rubber, you’re glue; whatever you say bounces of me and sticks to you!” Sometimes, we reach the point of irritation where, like Miracle…
To see clearly is a good thing. It’s important to know you’re taking the right exit because you’ve seen exit sign, that you’re taking the proper medication because you’ve clearly read the label, and that you’re putting toothpaste on your toothbrush – not triple-action antibiotic cream. Seeing clearly spares you the embarrassment of wearing one…
If everyone else was going to jump off bridge, you wouldn’t, would you? Of course not. But what if you didn’t know you were jumping off a bridge? What if you were going along with what everyone else, or a big chunk of everyone, was doing or thinking which wasn’t great, but had no idea?…
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…