Pillar Fellowship

Recently I had someone comment to me: I was thinking about you and your situation and thinking to myself, if I was in Kenn’s shoes, what would I say on our last Sunday? And I didn’t come up with anything. What do you plan to say? What does one say on a day like today? What does one preach? I was thinking…

Though we will not be in Revelation today, we have been walking through the book of Revelation, and we are in the most intense portion of the book where everything comes to a dramatic climax with the conclusion of the tribulation and the return of Christ to judge the antichrist, the wicked, and establish…

Have you ever watched a movie premiere in the theaters where there is a hard fought battle between the good guys and the bad guys, and then just when all hope seems lost, the good guys muster their last bit of strength and pulls out the victory and all the people in the theater cheer because the dastardly…

I want to start things off with a short story. This story has been told many times over the last several decades, but it sets up the conversation so well, that even if you’ve heard it, I’d like to tell it just one more time. There was once a man standing on a bridge and it looked like he was about to…

As I kid I grew up watching Hogan’s Heroes reruns. Anyone else? The sitcom follows Colonel Hogan and his band of soldiers in a POW camp during WWII. They have an entire operation where they smuggle people in and out of the POW camp to get them to safety. In the show the operation is on the absurd side…

In the year 319 AD, a deacon in the church in Alexandria, Egypt presented what today might be considered a paper arguing that Jesus, since is the Son of God, must have had a beginning, and thus cannot be truly God in the same way that the Father is God. This sparked an intense debate that threatened…

AI is changing the world in numerous ways. I know all of you have either used AI, viewed something created by AI, or are otherwise aware of it’s abilities. AI continues to be developed and improved, and it was just a few months ago that I was watching videos created by AI and I was absolutely blown away…

I’m not exactly a connoisseur of the WNBA, but here in Indiana there is a women’s basketball team called the Indiana Fever. On the Indiana Fever there is a player by the name of Caitlin Clark. Women’s basketball doesn’t usually come across my radar pretty much ever, but this year I became aware of stories…

Big Idea: The Conquering King is Opposed by Satan, But Prevails and Protects His People Be Aware: Satan has Always Opposed the Work of God Be Alert: Satan, even now, opposes the Work of God in You Be Assured: God will Preserve and Protect His People, both now and in the tribulation Intro Something that…

Revelation chapter eleven is where we are this morning. As you know, I do electrical work. One of my all-time favorite electrical jobs was working on historic mansions in downtown Louisiville. I tried to go back into my old photos to find pictures of one house in particular, but I couldn’t find what…

A Spiritual Discipline is an intentional habit cultivated in our lives that is designed to lead us into greater Christlikeness in our thoughts, affections, and behavior. Fervent Prayer We engage in regular, fervent prayer because it is commanded, effective, loving, and edifying. Luke 18:1 ; Phil 4:6…

Have you ever wondered what the differences are between a cyclone, a typhoon, and a hurricane? All three are words that describe tropical storms that form massive rotating systems with strong winds, thunderstorms, heavy rain, and form a spiral when viewed from above. The difference between a cyclone,…

A Spiritual Discipline is an intentional habit cultivated in our lives that is designed to lead us into greater Christlikeness in our thoughts, affections, and behavior. A few weeks ago we talked about the concept of the Ordinary means of Grace. While noting that we’d word things a little differently,…

A Spiritual Discipline is an intentional habit cultivated in our lives that is designed to lead us into greater Christlikeness in our thoughts, affections, and behavior. These are things we do so that we might become . The disciplines themselves are not ends in the themselves. The disciplines aren’t…