God Talk

Hopefully, by now, you’ve been able to see there are many ways for our faith to be influenced and pushed off course when we aren’t diligent in our focus on God’s leading in our lives. That’s the reason the series has been named Shipwrecked, because when we listen to what the world values and teaches and adopt it in our own lives as believers, even  we will inevitably lose our footing in the truth...

We are told to be in the world but not of the world. When we start becoming of the world we start seeing ourselves and even God Himself through the eyes of Satan.

It is the holiday season and a lot of us are caring around a lot of pain hurt dysfunction and baggage. The good news is God has not only redeemed us eternally but he wants to redeem us from our hurt and our pain today.

As we move into week 5 of our Shipwrecked series we take a look at things we all encounter in life that negatively affect us and can shipwreck our faith. More often than not, these things can seem inconsequential, or worse, totally harmless or even good, but put us on the road to spiritual disaster. We all know Satan has an evil influence on this world, and most of us picture him as some sort of d...

Society has devalued the role of the male for sometime now and we are seeing the scary results of that. The truth is weak men create a weak country.

This week, we turn our attention to church leadership, and specifically to pastors. There’s an inherent tendency among all of us to judge the pastor, bible study leader, or Sunday school teacher because, after all, he or she is the leader and the one whose life and actions are on display. But that leader is also a human just like you and I, and as such, has faults, and opinions we may not agree wi...

As we continue the Shipwrecked series, we turn our attention to the topic of worldly wisdom. Essentially, there are two types of wisdom: that which comes from the hearts of men, which God considers foolishness, and real wisdom that comes from God. Proverbs 14:12 puts man’s wisdom in proper perspective, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end leads to death.”  In this message Past...

God promises to work all things for the good those who love him. In this podcast I will share how I saw God in the final days of my dad’s life as he died of complications related to Alzheimer’s and dementia.

As we continue the Shipwrecked series, this week we are going to focus on pain, suffering, and trauma, the things we will all encounter and are most likely to shipwreck our faith. As a prime example, we are going to look at Job, someone who endured and stood firm in the midst of unthinkable tragedy. In one dark day Job suffered the loss of all his wealth, his sons and daughters, and even his healt...

Join me for this episode of God Talk as we look at how well the Israeli defense forces know at least some of the people living in Gaza, and how their ability to be familiar with their adversaries can give us a glimpse of insight, on how God can know us all my name.

We are beginning a new sermon series entitled Shipwrecked, a series all about making sure our faith doesn’t get “shipwrecked.” The term is used by the Apostle Paul in his first letter to Timothy, his protege, a young man whom he mentored to become a church leader, and Paul was commanding Timothy to conduct himself well and not become shipwrecked, as some have done. What applied then very much appl...

Some people are suggesting God may have interfered with this year‘s World Series and it all has to do with one team doing something different than all the other teams. Join me as we explore this possibility on this week’s episode of God Talk.

It is our hope you are watching Week 4, the last week of “The Challenge” series, because you have accepted “the challenge” and have committed yourself to the spiritual growth opportunity it affords. If you missed Week 1, 2, or 3, we encourage you to take the time to watch it. Visit https://lotwchurch.org/challenge for the full series and the downloadable workbook. Last week, we looked at the 3-T’s...

Have we entered or are we nearing the time of the Apocalypse?

It is our hope you are listening to Week 3 of The Challenge series because you have accepted “the challenge” and have committed yourself to the spiritual growth opportunity it affords. If you missed Week 1 or 2, we encourage you to take the time to watch it; visit https://lotwchurch.org/challenge for the full series and the downloadable workbook. Last week, we looked at spiritual laziness, a tende...

It is our hope you are watching Week 2 of The Challenge series because you have accepted “the challenge” and have committed yourself to the spiritual growth opportunity it affords. If you missed Week 1, we encourage you to take the time to watch it; visit https://lotwchurch.org/challenge for the full series and the downloadable workbook. This week we are discussing spiritual laziness, a tendency w...

I had the opportunity to talk to a former member who is dying from ALS, and the conversation was inspiring and powerful one that I think all of us can learn from. Sometimes we can learn to live from those who are dying.

We are kicking off a four-week sermon series, which is an updated version of The Challenge series LOTW did as a church in 2008. Today we start by discussing “forks in the road,” times in our lives where we are required to make a decision and choose which direction or path we will take and commit to it. As an example, we’ll look at Joshua, the leader of the nation of Israel, who succeeded Moses and...

We are looking at some disturbing news out of the Vatican, some good news about the QB of the Miami Dolphins and a lesson from an ugly soccer injury.

As we wrap up the Potholes sermon series we take a look at the number one issue in all our lives that gets us into more trouble and causes more destructiveness than just about all of the issues we’ve discussed. It’s a look in the mirror because it’s not Satan that is getting us into all kinds of trouble, although he is a party to it, but instead, the problem is really US! When we become undiscipli...

In my 51 years I have seen some uncertainty in this world. The Cold War, Y-2k, Covid but all of these may be insignificant in comparison to what is headed our way in 2024. I have never encouraged prepping but you might do well to prepare for the year to come that will certainly be filled with political, social, economic and religious uncertainty!

Who hasn’t run into situations in life where we respond with fear, or find ourselves worrying, or having doubts about how things will turn out?! All of us! In fact, the Bible specifically mentions fear over 600 times, so it is by no means a topic that it fails to address. Repeatedly we are commanded to “Fear not!” because as believers we have the power of the Creator of heaven and earth behind us!...

We are very comfortable with the idea that Gcd gives blessings but does he also give curses? This is the topic we will explore on this week of God Talk.

Christian Nationalism is focused on making Biblical values part of America again, but is it really Christian?

We have opportunity to put our faith in to practice at all hours of the day and night. Here is a story of me getting such an opportunity to follow the voice of Jesus and practice what I preach at 2 AM.