A Place Of Grace

Being a father and watching my children step into this phase of adulthood has given opportunity to observe the things they have learned. Some things I thought were being taught through observation I soon realized I needed to further instruct upon... Driving skills… / Filling up a gas tank!!! Some things…

Thank you… For the opportunity to take this sabbatical. I look forward to this time of refreshment and the ability to be able to focus on areas that I have wanted to give attention to. I am truly grateful that you my church family are giving me and my family this gracious blessing. Excited for our church...…

“ Everything will be ok in the end. If it’s not, it’s not the end. ” Well… we have come to the end of our study of this amazing book of Revelation. 33 sermons ago this study began, as we recognized and set the focus of our study… set forth in Revelation 1:1 “ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God…

They say say that a picture is worth a thousand words… In our passage today, John sees somethings visually that is difficult to find words for to describe! In order for us to visualize what he is seeing John writes down for us 611 words. Johns words will immerse us in a tour given by an angel as he has…

As I realized we would be honoring our graduates this Sunday, I looked ahead to where I would be in the book of Revelation curious what I would be preaching on… and noticed it would be the topic of ETERNITY . At first I thought, “ Well , that’s a heavy subject matter ” but as I thought about it more…

The late Charles Dickens begins his novel “Christmas Carol” with these opening words: Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. … Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. … There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can…

The role of PARENTING is under attack these days. BOTH roles of Father and Mother are vital roles and both in our society have recieved pointed attacks. The war rages more and more each day! Europe has already relegated these roles to (Parent 1 and Parent 2). The family institution (Father, Mother, Child,…

Communion Jesus shared with His disciples that we are to remember Him as often as we come together… this is done when the bread is broken, the cup is drank. He left us beautiful pictures to look back and remember: His body broken for you and me His blood shed for the atonement for our sin This is also…

Jesus defeated sin and death at the cross. We had the blessed celebration of that last week. Jesus would say That “ God so loved the world He gave His only Son ” Because of this, Jesus as He ascended into Heaven would declare. “ Go into all the world and make disciples ” But Jesus would also warn His…

The book of Acts records for us that the apostles were sharing Jesus Christ risen from the dead and because of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection… there was forgiveness of sin! The religious leaders were not happy with this message that they were spreading… and wanted to stop them! One of them however…

An amazing week was coming to a close, Jesus had taught such a great deal, declared so many amazing things. NOW … it was passover, the greatest of all Jewish Feast and Celebrations!!! Jesus had celebrated with His disciples this occasion before but He was specially looking forward to this one. The Meal…

I Have a “ God Box ” … I made mine small, bright so it would grab my attention, I even labeled it so I would know and remember. Some of you are judging me right now Some of you are thinking, “My box is much bigger” Some of you are wondering, “why so small?” Some of you are thinking, “I don’t put God…