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Send us Fan Mail This morning is the second week in my new sermon series, which I am calling Masterclass: Storyteller. In this sermon series, I will be looking at the parables of Jesus, the stories that He told, and what we can learn from them about what it means to know and follow God. The best definition I have found of what a parable is comes from John MacArthur: A parable is an ingeniously sim...

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Send us Fan Mail This Sunday is my final sermon in my sermon series entitled “How Long, O Lord?” about suffering, loss, lament, and trust. During this series, we’ve talked about how to deal with all kinds of suffering that might be experienced in this life, from the death of loved ones to physical suffering, from the futility of life to our sin, and last week, the specific sin of racism. Suffering...

Send us Fan Mail During May and June, I am preaching through a sermon series called “How Long, O Lord?” about suffering, loss, lament, and trust. Suffering is inevitable in life, and there are many ways you can respond to suffering and loss, but the way that the Bible gives us is lament. Lament is “a prayer in pain that leads to trust,” as Mark Vroegop defines it in his book “Dark clouds, deep mer...

Send us Fan Mail During May and June, I am preaching through a sermon series called “How Long, O Lord?” about suffering, loss, lament, and trust. Certainly many of you or your loved ones are experiencing all kinds of suffering over the past few months – injustice, violence, unemployment, loneliness, depression, anxiety, and of course the death of loved ones. There are many ways you can respond to...

Send us Fan Mail From May 10th to June 21st, I am preaching through a sermon series called “How Long, O Lord?” about suffering, loss, lament, and trust. The longer you live, the more you suffer – death, racism, violence, unemployment, loneliness, depression, anxiety. There are many ways you can respond to suffering and loss, but the way that the Bible gives us is lament. Lament is “a prayer in pai...

Send us Fan Mail From May 10th to June 21st, I am preaching through a sermon series called “How Long, O Lord?” about suffering, loss, lament, and trust. There are many ways you can respond to suffering and loss, but the way that the Bible gives us is lament. Lament is “a prayer in pain that leads to trust,” as Mark Vroegop says in his book “Dark clouds, deep mercy.” It consists of four movements:...

Send us Fan Mail How many of you remember where you were seven years ago on this date, on the morning of May 24th, 2013? Unfortunately, I do. On this date, May 24th, 2013, I awoke to a call from one of our elders that a family in our church had awoken to find their 4 month-old son unresponsive in his crib. I remember rushing to the hospital to find baby Henry lying on the bed, with his devastated...

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Send us Fan Mail In Tim Keller’s book Walking with God through pain and suffering, he shares about a novel written by Elisabeth Elliot in 1966 called No Graven Image. The book tells the story of a young unmarried woman named Margaret who dedicates her life to translating the Bible for remote tribes in the Amazon rain forest whose languages have not yet been written down. She begins working with th...

Send us Fan Mail Finishing up the sermon series on the New Testament book of 1 Corinthians, which I have entitled “The gospel changes everything.” 1 Corinthians is a letter written by the apostle Paul to a church in Corinth which he started around the year 50 AD. He stayed in Corinth and built up the church for a year and a half before moving on to start another church, and then he wrote this lett...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing in the sermon series called The Gospel Changes Everything, based on the New Testament book 1 Corinthians, Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, a church he started around the year 50 AD. He has since left the church in the hands of other leaders so that he might start other churches, and he writes this letter around the year 54-55 AD in response to what he is he...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing in the sermon series called The Gospel Changes Everything, based on the New Testament book 1 Corinthians, Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, a church he started around the year 50 AD. He has since left the church in the hands of other leaders so that he might start other churches, and he writes this letter around the year 54-55 AD in response to what he is he...

Send us Fan Mail John 20:1-31 - Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.  2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"  3 So Peter and the o...

Send us Fan Mail Taking a break this morning from the sermon series on 1 Corinthians for this week and next Sunday to look at John’s account of the last week of Jesus’ life. This morning, I will be looking at John 12:12-33 , the story of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem that has become known as Palm Sunday.

Send us Fan Mail Continuing in the sermon series called The Gospel Changes Everything, based on the New Testament book 1 Corinthians, Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, a church he started around the year 50 AD. He has since left the church in the hands of other leaders so that he might start other churches, and he writes this letter around the year 54-55 AD in response to what he is he...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing in the sermon series called The Gospel Changes Everything, based on the New Testament book 1 Corinthians, Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, a church he started around the year 50 AD. He has since left the church in the hands of other leaders so that he might start other churches, and he writes this letter around the year 54-55 AD in response to what he is he...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing in the sermon series called The Gospel Changes Everything, based on the New Testament book 1 Corinthians, Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, a church he started around the year 50 AD. He has since left the church in the hands of other leaders so that he might start other churches, and he writes this letter around the year 54-55 AD in response to what he is he...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing in the sermon series called The Gospel Changes Everything, based on the New Testament book 1 Corinthians, Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, a church he started around the year 50 AD. He has since left the church in the hands of other leaders so that he might start other churches, and he writes this letter around the year 54-55 AD in response to what he is he...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing in the sermon series called The Gospel Changes Everything, based on the New Testament book 1 Corinthians, Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, a church he started around the year 50 AD. He has since left the church in the hands of other leaders so that he might start other churches, and he writes this letter around the year 54-55 AD in response to what he is he...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing in the sermon series called The Gospel Changes Everything, based on the New Testament book 1 Corinthians, Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, a church he started around the year 50 AD. He has since left the church in the hands of other leaders so that he might start other churches, and he writes this letter around the year 54-55 AD in response to what he is he...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing in the sermon series called The Gospel Changes Everything, based on the New Testament book 1 Corinthians, Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, a church he started around the year 50 AD. He has since left the church in the hands of other leaders so that he might start other churches, and he writes this letter around the year 54-55 AD in response to what he is he...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing in the sermon series called The Gospel Changes Everything, based on the New Testament book 1 Corinthians, Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, a church he started around the year 50 AD. He has since left the church in the hands of other leaders so that he might start other churches, and he writes this letter around the year 54-55 AD in response to what he is he...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing in the sermon series called The Gospel Changes Everything, based on the New Testament book 1 Corinthians, Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, a church he started around the year 50 AD. He has since left the church in the hands of other leaders so that he might start other churches, and he writes this letter around the year 54-55 AD in response to what he is he...

Send us Fan Mail I am in the third week of a sermon series called The Gospel Changes Everything, based on the New Testament book of 1 Corinthians, which is a letter written by the Apostle Paul’s to the church at Corinth. In Paul’s day, Corinth was a part of the Roman Empire, a major port city on a narrow land bridge between Peloponnesus and mainland Greece. As a result, it was a significant econom...