11/24/24 Luke 23:32-43 “Happy New Year!” As a society, we like to celebrate special occasions and today is the day of 2 such celebrations. First of all, this is the last Sunday of the year. Next Sunday we start Advent, the first Sunday of the new...
11/17/24 Isaiah 65:17-25 “Perfect in Perfectness!” Hopefully, you all know me well enough to know that I’m not the type of person who dwells too much on the past. I’m like everyone else in that I have learned many things from my past but then I...
11/10/24 Haggai 1:14-2:9 “And It Came to Pass!” I sometimes think that it is amazing how we discard things that are old. My computer crashed once and I was forced to use an old one. I found that it worked wonderfully well but it was a...
11/3/24 2 Thess. 1:1-12 “Prayer Works So Well!” I learned a lot of things when I taught confirmation, things we don’t think about too often. For instance, we were made in the image of God. To me, this really makes God more personal. Therefore, for me,...
10/27/24 Joel 2:12-13, 23-32 “Did You Bring an Umbrella?” I’m not sure if you know this or not but being in formal ministry can have many pitfalls. And because there are times when I engage my mouth before my brain, I have made my share of...
10/20/24 Romans 15:14-22 “Save One More for Jesus” I have to make an admission today. This is not my favorite time of year. I know that the leaves are very pretty. I know that the crops change and the harvest is on if the weather remains...
10/13/24 Jer. 29:4-14 “It’s a Love That Never Ends!” We had an interesting conversation with a young adult a while back that was very revealing in a good way. This person told me that from the ages 20-24 or so are not the ages where people...
10/6/24 2 Tim. 1:1-14 “Let’s Start New” I will begin today by saying that I love being a pastor. When I stop and think about it, there really is not any aspect of this that I don’t like. We have been very blessed to be able...
9/29/24 1 Timothy 6:6-19 “Whose Money Is This?” We are a people of schedules; patterns and we get very comfortable in the way we do things. For the most part we don’t like change. I wish I could shake us up a little and help us...
9/22/24 2 Timothy 2:1-10 “Totally Awesome!” As I was studying our passage for this week, I got one of those random thoughts that occasionally pop into my head. If the Apostle Paul were alive today, what would he be like? Have you ever thought about that? ...