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Irritate by interruptions… only to realize that my offense was the same as their impulse to interrupt… I’m more important… I want to be heard… When I realized that, I took it to the Lord and you know what… I still get irritated when people interrupt or talk over others… but what I have found is that…

IF we ask moms to tell us about their family… they often touch their heart If I ask you to point to yourself… you point to your heart The heart is what we give… not organs or limbs Heart Power The heart is what feeds ever relationship. The heart… not the muscle… but the core of who we are. We know the…

My wife says I have selective hearing… but the truth is I’m not listening. It’s not that I’m not listening to her, I’m not listening to anything. I’m in my own head. How does she know? Because she can see my listening? No, because I’m not responding. Responding shows our listening... One of the best…

Welcome again to Resurrection Sunday worship. I’ve been looking forward to this day for a long time. Looking forward to celebrating this day with my church family. As we’ve gathered over the last several weeks, we’ve been studying the life of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. The gospel of Luke, was written…

Chicken Crackers - can’t find the door - door should be here but it’s not In life when things should work out one way-but don’t God should do this - but doesn’t John the Baptist was absolutely certain Jesus was the Messiah Luke 1:39-41 , 57-80 John 1:29-33 , 43-45 At the same time, Jesus didn’t seem…

Hard way and the easy way… to get what you want in life But there’s really no easy way… life is just hard and some times we make it even harder… by not asking for help… not taking advantage of opportunities… Today we look at two healings of Jesus and how Jesus was moved to heal for two different reasons…

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Finding Jacob Last week we saw Jacob leading his family away from his uncle Laban. He’s been away from his home for over 20 years. Things didn’t end real well with his uncle, but that’s pretty typical for Jacob’s relationships. When he left home years ago, he left things in a bad way as well. Remember…

How to know the best thing to do. Mac... the clumsiest retriever. Wanting to, but missing when it comes to timing Makes him look silly Timing is crucially important. Doing what you should do exactly when you should do it. It’s a question that has challenged people across time; but in a much more serious…

When Life Changes It’s just a normal Saturday morning. I wake up, greeted by my dog who brings me a slobbery tennis ball; dancing in circles at my feet, wanting to play as I struggle to stand up straight. Half awake, half asleep, I stumble to the kitchen, passing Michelle in the office doing paperwork…

God will not repair what you pretend isn’t broken. The people were expecting a King, but found a savior... wanting salvation, we find the Lord.

START RECORDING On Friday night we had a football game at the HS, we lost pretty bad, it wasn’t fun. But one thing that happened before the game was pretty funny. I know the coach there, I’d even call him a friend, even though we have our differences. But before the game we were running plays over the…

Miserable getting what I wanted… and that’s not at all what I wanted. Getting what you want only to discover that you really didn’t want it… it was actually something else. Satisfaction The key to getting more out of life is admitting I can never quite reach what I really want. Key to finding true satisfaction…

Funny Duck Try to fix him Couldn’t Funny Duck wasn’t the last time I tried to change someone or something that needed changing Our attempts to changing people.... We can’t What can? Better question is WHO can? Answer: God. More accurately, God’s love. Everything God does is out of love because that’s…

I shared with you all that I was a really happy man… as a football coach for years, to finally be back out with kids on the field has been great. The other thing is that this is the season for NASCAR and Hockey… two sports I love for the same reason. You may say, NASCAR and Hockey have nothing in common……

“What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” The Death of Abraham - Genesis 25:1-11 The Life of Ishmael - Genesis 25:12-18 How to get what you want? This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac, and Isaac was forty years…

So today we find ourselves in a new sermon series working our way through the book of Genesis. The Blessing. We heard a lot about The blessing in our last study of Abraham and Sarah. It traces back to God’s promise in chapter 12 where God said: Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your…

ME: Picture of a funeral Our tendency to want to move on YOU: The story is is to shift our focus to Isaac and the next generations. They are about to become the main characters in the story of Genesis. That happens in life… it becomes about our kids... But today we are in a transitional period. And we…

ME: It’s good to be back with y’all. It was good to spend last weekend with my daughter. We had an AIRBNB and we just sat around playing cards all weekend. Now, remember, I don’t like playing cards, but my daughter does. She probably doesn’t like sitting around the house much either, but she did it to…

ME: There’s a cultural phenomenon going on in our world today called “cancel culture”. What it says is that if you express views that are contrary to those acceptable by a particular group - whether that be a group of friends, a business, a media channel, a government official, you can be locked out…

We are back in our study of the book of Genesis today. In our series THE PROMISE, we come to Genesis chapter 19 today. If you have read the text or are familiar with the story, you can probably understand why I’m always tempted to focus on the sin of the outsiders in texts like this. They are so obvious…

We are taking a break from working through the book of Genesis in our series The Promise in order to spend a couple of weeks remembering the season of Christmas. It’s Christmas. Everyone knows this is a special time of year. We plan gifts, parties, ugly sweaters, bring trees indoors; all sorts of things…

That may Some things to notice: The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. Most of us read this verse and we probably don’t think much about what we read. But if you were a Jew, the word LORD would spark all sorts…

The waiting game What about me? There is a danger in reading a text like we have today. Abram and Sarai were pagan’s. Spent years going against God’s will. Yet God blesses them The temptation when we look at someone like Abram is “What about me? ” I come to church, I try to do the right things… i”m not…