Question for you. Do you think God really cares about how you spend your free time? Understand, I’m not asking, “Do you think God minds if you use your free time to rob banks?” I mean, do you think God cares whether you use your spare time to go fishing or bowling or play cards? For that matter, does God care what…
Sermons on Pentecost (Page 10)
A pastor learned that there were serious problems at his former congregation. It had become riddled with cliques and divisions over which pastor people preferred, between rich vs poor, between those who considered themselves more spiritual and those they judged to be less so. The arguments resulted in chaos in worship services and at church…
“Keep your eye on the ball…” I’m sure you’ve all heard someone say that before. If you’re playing baseball and you keep whiffing on every pitch the coach may remind you to keep your eye on the ball… focus on the ball the whole time… don’t let your eyes wander to try and pick up…
Let me tell you about three people. The first is a young woman… who after years of turning to food for joy and comfort finally realizes she’s been using food to try fill a void… but now she’s stuck… stuck in the endless cycle of dieting and binging… stuck in the endless cycle of depression……
A question for you. If you had the opportunity to take an all-expense paid vacation anywhere in the world, where would you go? Would you go to Hawaii or the Bahamas or maybe take a fishing trip to Alaska or a shopping trip in Paris. If you could afford to purchase whatever your heart desired,…
1 out of every 2. According to recent research carried out by the American Psychological Association, 40-50% of marriages now end in divorce. Not surprisingly, with the large number of divorces, couples are living together before marriage more than ever before. A 2013 study reported that 75% of women 30 and younger had lived with…
Have you every stopped to consider why you do what you do? For example, what are you doing right now? You are about to listen to a guy preach a sermon based on a book that was written between 2 and 4 thousand years ago. Really? Why would you do that? How could that possibly…
I’ll never forget the feeling of cradling our baby girl in my arms just after she was born. She was so tiny, so new. I remember thinking how she had her whole life ahead of her. And though she was only minutes old, my mind was spinning with all the good things I wanted for her, not just in the days and…
Would you call yourself a wise person? Would you define your life as one wisely lived? You might think that’s kind of a subjective question. Some of you consider your life and think “Yeah, I think I am pretty wise from my experiences, from years of school and work.” But maybe you’re thinking of foolish decisions you’ve made, things you’ve done, or…
You’ve all heard of the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, right? It’s a common way we explain that enormous gap that exists between winning and losing. It’s quite a different feeling being the general who accepts the enemy’s surrender than being the general who is doing the surrendering. It’s thrilling when the Packers had what seemed to be an…