Download Life Guides >Sermon Text: Acts 17:22-31 It can take time for people to process new information that redefines how life is to viewed and understood. You can’t drop a mountain of new information on people and expect it to be absorbed and appreciated immediately. Ideally, yes. Realistically, no. Learning isn’t purely intellectual; there’s a…
Download Life Guides >Sermon Text: John 20:19-31 Nicknames are fun. Where do they come from? Why do people get them? People get nicknames based on where they’re from, distinguishing characteristics, or something they said or did that ends up encapsulating them. Alexander the Great and Vlad the Impaler. You got the Sultan of Swat and…
Download Life Guides >Sermon Text: Isaiah 42:14-21 Running at full speed through a totally dark and overgrown forest because you are trying to escape danger would be terrifying. Put yourself in that mental space. Something terrible is behind you. Unfamiliar and threatening sounds pop up here and there, some much too close for comfort. You…
Download Life Guides >Sermon Text: Romans 5:12-19 There was a time in my life when I thought that if I died in the middle of committing a sin, I’d go to hell because I didn’t have a chance to repent and be forgiven. I’d imagine saying or thinking something bad and – wham – t-boned.…
Download Life Guides >Sermon Text: John 1:29-41 John the Baptist doesn’t have much of an ego when it comes to Jesus, does he? Not at all, which is good because ego kills love. How? Because ego justifies all manner of selfish actions and decisions without much concern for how others are affected, how hurtful those…
Download Life Guides >Sermon Text: Ephesians 3:2-12 It’s cute when a 4.5 year old almost lets the cat out of the bag about a surprise or overhears something and shares it wildly out of context to everyone’s delight. Too excited to keep quiet! It’s not as cute when a 24.5 year old almost lets the…
Sermon Text: Hebrews 1:1-9 It probably never was just another day at work for Moses, who likely caught a glimpse of the pillar of fire and cloud that formed and settled over the Tent of Meeting as he entered to talk with God. It would make sense for Isaiah to vividly recall every detail of…
Sermon Text: Isaiah 35:1-10 One time, after adventuring in the woods behind our house as a young boy, I ran inside terribly thirsty. Best thing to quench that mighty thirst? Not water, apple juice of course! Trouble is, full containers of apple juice are heavy, even for adventuresome boys, so I asked one of my…
Download Life Guides >Sermon Text: Philippians 4:4-7 “What do you do with the mad that you feel When you feel so mad you could bite? When the whole wide world seems oh, so wrong…And nothing you do seems very right?” Fred Rogers, one of the greatest people of the 20th century, sang this song to…
Download Life Guides >Sermon Text: John 8:31-36 Since two things can be true at the same time, it’s more than reasonable to say that each of us is a walking conundrum, a contradiction, a consciousness that contains multitudes. Walt Whitman once wrote, “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large…