Clark's Compelling Catwalk

Some people think that some things are so bad, that they don't deserve to be forgiven.  Some people think that some people are so bad, that they don't deserve to be forgiven.  They think to forgive them would be wrong.  A scandal.  A miscarriage of justice.  What does God think?  What does the Bible say?  What are the limits of God's forgivness for us?  In t...

We have a crisis of truth today.  People can't agree on the truth.  We can't agree on the same set of facts.  Some people don't think we can know the truth.  Some believe everybody has their own truth.  So, what is the truth?  Can we know it?  If so, how?  These are the questions we look at in this week's message.

During the pandemic, as we have quarantined and social distanced, we have realized the problems that have come with isolation.  We have seen an increase in loneliness, which has led to other problems.  We are once again seeing the Need for Community.  Why is that?  And what can we do about it?  Listen to this episode as we discuss our Need for Community.

As we begin a New Year, we want to make the most of the time that we have.  But, do we really understand how time works?  People have actually been able to reverse the aging process by understanding time.  The Bible calls us to understand the times that we live in.  And we need to understand the different kinds of times we experience, so that we can redeem the time.  Liste...

Do you feel like your day yesterday was a masterpiece?  Would you describe your day today as a masterpiece?  What would have to chance to make it so?  As we begin this new year, one thing I think we need to focus on is how to Make Each Day a Masterpiece.  You can listen to this podcast to get some ideas on how we might do that.

I am beginning the New Year of 2022 with a series of messages called Turning Over a New Leaf.  This is the first of those messages which is called Flip the Script.  As we flip our calendars from 2021 to 2022, we need to leave some things from last year in last year.  We don't want to carry them over into this new year.  We don't want to be confined to the mistakes and the sins...

Today, we are wrapping up our series on the Movies of Christmas by talking about the Miracle on 34th St.  The movie is about the Journey to Believe, which is also what the Christmas story is about.  How do people move from a place of unbelief to a place of belief?  How do people change their minds?  We'll look at that as we consider what these stories have to say to us today.

The Polar Express follows 3 children who get on board the train to go to the North Pole to see Santa.  These three children represent three kinds of belief we find in our world today.  They are 1)Looking for Belief, 2)Crushed Belief, and 3)Helping Others Believe.  This story helps us understand where different people are at in their relationship with God and their ability to believe...

As we continue our series on the Movies of Christmas, today we are looking at the movie White Christmas.  It was released in 1954.  It's about some soldiers who return to the United States after WWII and who try to find their way in society once again.  At first glance, it doesn't seem to have much to do with the Christmas story we find in the Bible.  But, if you look close eno...

Today, we are beginning our Advent series on the Movies of Christmas.  We are going to look at four popular Christmas movies in our culture, and see where we can find elements of the Biblical Christmas story found hidden within them.  Today, we begin with the movie Christmas Vacation.  This is a movie about Expectations, Sin, and Grace.

This week is the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving.  So, today, we are looking at the faith of William Bradford, the early governor of the Plymouth colony.  His faith in Christ and the life he lived are examples for us, for how God might be calling us to live by faith today.

As we continue our series on People of Faith, one of the people who has had a huge influence on our world was a woman by the name of Susanna Wesley.  She was the mother of John and Charles Wesley, who started the Methodist Church in England in the 1700s.  But, her story is so much more than that.  Her influence on their lives and so many others is one that inspires us and shows us h...

As we continue our series on People of Faith, today we look at the life of William Wilberforce.  William Wilberforce lived in England in the late 1700s and early 1800s.  He became a leading member of Parliament and a Christian.  He dedicated his life to ending slavery in England and around the world.  His story is inspiring and instructive to us today, as we consider how to liv...

As we continue our series on People of Faith, today we are talking about Saint Maria of Paris.  She is one of the most amazing Christians you have probably never heard of.  But her life is an inspiration of how we can live out our faith in Christ in the midst of some of the most difficult circumstances in life.

Today is the first in a series of 5 message on people of faith.  Many people know that Jackie Robinson was one of the greatest baseball players of all time.  Many people know that he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier as the first black man to play in their league.  But, many people do not know that he was also a strong Christian.  His faith in Christ is what enabled h...

If you knew that you didn't have long to live, what would you want your final words to be?  What kind of legacy do you want to leave?  What is it about your life, your faith, and your beliefs that you would want people to know about and remember about you?  Today, we come to the end of Joshua's life and see what his final words were.  They get us thinking about what we would wa...

What is the right response to someone who kills another person accidentally?  What is the fair and just response to an individual who is unintentionally responsible for another's death?  As we continue looking at the stories of Joshua in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, we see that this was a situation the Israelites had to deal with.  The ways that God instructed them also...

As we continue to walk through the book of Joshua, we come today to a story about systemic sin.  Because America is a very individualistic culture, we tend to think of sin as something that individuals do.  But, it's worse than that.  Sin can become embedded in the families, systems, cultures, and organizations in which we live.  When that happens, it becomes harder to eliminat...

The fall of the wall around the city of Jericho is probably the best known story in the book of Joshua.  But, when you actually read the story in the Bible, you see there is a lot more going on than just the fall of the wall.  The story is an important one for us today to understand because it talks about how our societies collapse around us and who will survive when they do.  What...

Sometimes God leads us out of one chapter in our lives and into another.  We leave some aspects of our past behind and step into a new future.  This is what the Israelites experiences when they finally ended their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness and crossed the Jordan River into the land that had been promised to them over 400 years before.  It was a major transition in thei...

Chapter two in the story of Joshua is about the sending out of the spies to check out Jericho before the Israelites invade it.  It's a story where the spied are surprisingly saved and aided by an unlikely friend - a foreign prostitute.  Without her, their mission might have failed.  Somehow, she had a change of heart and began to believe in God and wanted to be a part of God's peopl...

Today, we begin a series of message through the Old Testament book of Joshua in the Bible.  Moses had been the revered and respect leader of Israel for the last 40 years.  He had just died, and Joshua, his vice-president, was tapped to take his place.  The people knew Joshua, but they didn't know if he was up for the challenge of taking over from Moses.  The nation was entering...

Perspective is a very powerful thing.  How you look at the world affects what you see.  If you look through rose-colored glasses, the world will look great.  If you look through blue-colored glasses, the world will look sad.  Your perspective influences how you think, how you act, and what your attitude is.  Today, we wrap up our three weeks in Romans 8 by talking about th...

Hope is very powerful.  Hope is something we all need in our lives.  Without hope, we fall into depression and despair.  We have nothing to look forward to, and we're not sure we can get through today.  Hope is essential.  Today, we discuss the second of our three messages in Romans 8, and see what it says about the power of hope.  The power of hope is part of the pow...

Knowledge has the power to change your life.  There are certain bits of information that will change how you think.  There are certain pieces of wisdom that will change how your view the world, how your view yourself, and how your perceive your life.  Romans 8 gives us some key points of knowledge that God can use to change your life.