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Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am beginning a new sermon series entitled Revival. My hope in this series is to lead us into a life of deeper prayer, where we ask for God to bring greater spiritual life to us individually and collectively, and through us to bring His salvation and redemption to our world.   This morning, I want to look at Ephesians 1:15-23 . Now that Paul has listed the spiritual...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, we are in week 2 of a sermon series that I have entitled Revival. My hope in this series is to lead us into a deeper experience of God, that God would give us greater spiritual life and vitality both individually and collectively, that we would experience more of His love and power, and that through us, He would bring His salvation and redemption to our world.   This...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am beginning a new sermon series for Advent entitled “Waiting for God.” One of the main themes of this time of the year is waiting for God, as we look back to the long wait for the first coming of Christ, and as we wait in the present for Jesus’ return. Now, we are all familiar with waiting. I’m sure many of you spent some time waiting the past few days. Waiting in...

Send us Fan Mail We are currently in Advent, the time of the year where we look back at Jesus’ first coming and look ahead to His return. I’ve entitled this sermon series Waiting on God, as one of the themes of Advent is waiting – waiting for the Messiah to come, and waiting for Jesus to return. In this series, I’ll be looking at some of the major times of waiting in the Biblical story to see how...

Send us Fan Mail We are currently in Advent, the time of the year where we look back at Jesus’ first coming and look ahead to His return. I’ve entitled this sermon series Waiting on God, as one of the themes of Advent is waiting – waiting for the Messiah to come, and waiting for Jesus to return. In this series, I’ll be looking at some of the major times of waiting in the Biblical story to see how...

Send us Fan Mail These past 10 weeks, I have preached a sermon series on what the Bible has to say about justice, while also contrasting Biblical justice from much of what is called justice in the world around us. This morning, I am going to attempt to summarize the past ten weeks, and then we will open it up for a time of testimonies, where you will have the opportunity to share what you have lea...

Send us Fan Mail This fall, I am preaching a sermon series I have entitled “Justice,” looking at what the Bible has to say about justice and how to evaluate the cultural messages on justice that are all around us. Each week, I have begun with three preliminary comments. First of all, this is not primarily a political sermon series or a social science lecture series. I will be trying to stay in my...

Send us Fan Mail This fall, I am preaching a sermon series I have entitled “Justice,” looking at what the Bible has to say about justice and how to evaluate the cultural messages on justice that are all around us. Each week, I have begun with three preliminary comments. First of all, this is not primarily a political sermon series or a social science lecture series. I will be trying to stay in my...

Send us Fan Mail This fall, I am preaching a sermon series I have entitled “Justice,” looking at what the Bible has to say about justice and how to evaluate the cultural messages on justice that are all around us. Each week, I have begun with three preliminary comments. First of all, this is not primarily a political sermon series or a social science lecture series. I will be trying to stay in my...

Send us Fan Mail This fall, I am preaching a sermon series I have entitled “Justice,” looking at what the Bible has to say about justice and how to evaluate the cultural messages on justice that are all around us. Each week, I have begun with three preliminary comments. First of all, this is not primarily a political sermon series or a social science lecture series. I will be trying to stay in my...

Send us Fan Mail This fall, I am preaching a sermon series I have entitled “Justice,” looking at what the Bible has to say about justice and how to evaluate the cultural messages on justice that are all around us. Each week, I have begun with three preliminary comments. First of all, this is not primarily a political sermon series or a social science lecture series. I will be trying to stay in my...

Send us Fan Mail This fall, I am preaching a sermon series I have entitled “Justice,” looking at what the Bible has to say about justice and how to evaluate the cultural messages on justice that are all around us. I’m going slowly through this series, trying not to take on too much at once. Each week, I begin with three preliminary comments, which I want to repeat this week. First of all, this is...

Send us Fan Mail This fall, I am preaching a sermon series I have entitled “Justice,” looking at what the Bible has to say about justice and how to evaluate the cultural messages on justice that are all around us. I’m going slowly through this series, trying not to take on too much at once. Each week, I begin with three preliminary comments, which I want to repeat this week. First of all, this is...

Send us Fan Mail This fall, I am preaching a sermon series I have entitled “Justice,” looking at what the Bible has to say about justice and how to evaluate the cultural messages on justice that are all around us. I’m going slowly through this series, trying not to take on too much at once. Each week, I begin with three preliminary comments that I want to repeat this week. First of all, this is no...

Send us Fan Mail This fall, I am preaching a sermon series I have entitled “Justice,” looking at what the Bible has to say about justice and how to evaluate the cultural messages on justice that are all around us. Last week, I began with three preliminary comments that I want to repeat this week. First of all, this is not a political sermon series or a social science lecture series. I will be tryi...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am beginning a new sermon series that I have titled “Justice.” If you’ve listened to me preach, you know that my typical style is to work through a book of the Bible or a specific passage of Scripture, looking at what it meant in its original context and what it means for us today. But usually about once every year I preach a more topical sermon series, especially...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am finishing up my sermon series “Meeting Jesus,” looking at various interactions that people had with Jesus in the book of John. Today, I will be looking at the interaction Jesus has with Thomas, one of his disciples, in chapter 20, after his resurrection.   John 20 - Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.  25 S...

Send us Fan Mail This summer, I have been preaching through a sermon series entitled “Meeting Jesus,” looking at various interactions that Jesus had with people in the gospel of John, in order to learn more about what it means to know and follow Jesus. Next week is the final week in the series, and for this week and next week, I will be looking at two interactions that Jesus had after he was raise...

Send us Fan Mail This summer, I have been preaching through a sermon series that I have entitled “Meeting Jesus,” in which I am looking through the gospel of John at the interactions of various people with Jesus, in order to discover who Jesus is and what it means to know and follow Him. Last week, we looked at Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead in John 11. After that, his public ministry is over...

Send us Fan Mail This morning, I am continuing in my sermon series entitled Meeting Jesus, in which I am looking at various interactions that Jesus had with people in the gospel of John and what we learn from them about what it means to know and follow Jesus. This morning, we will be looking at Jesus’ interaction with Mary and Martha at the tomb of their brother Lazarus: John 11:1-45 - Now a man n...

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Send us Fan Mail This summer, I have been preaching through a sermon series that I have entitled “Meeting Jesus,” where I am looking through the gospel of John at the interactions of various people with Jesus, in order to discover who Jesus is and what it means to know and follow Him. This Sunday, we will be in John 2, looking at a very unique and shocking interaction between Jesus and a group of...

Send us Fan Mail This summer, I have been preaching through a sermon series that I have entitled “Meeting Jesus,” where I am looking through the gospel of John at the interactions of various people with Jesus, in order to discover who Jesus is and what it means to know and follow Him. This Sunday, we will be in John 5, looking at the interaction between Jesus and a disabled man.   John 5:1-18 - So...

Send us Fan Mail This summer, I am preaching on interactions that various people had with Jesus in John’s gospel, so that we can better understand who Jesus is and what it looks like for us to know and follow Him. This morning, we’ll be in John 9, looking a meeting between Jesus and an unnamed blind man. If you’re unfamiliar, there are four accounts of Jesus’ life – Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,...

Send us Fan Mail John 3:1-21 - Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council.  2 He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him."  Before we continue, let me take a minute to talk about Nicodemus. Nicodemus is a P...