Pillar Fellowship

There are certain people who, when they speak on their areas of expertise, the wise will sit up straight and listen. Individuals like Steve Jobs on technology. Warren Buffett on Finance Greg Maddux on pitching, Barry Bonds on hitting, Michael Jordan on basketball. Goerge Washington, when he presided…

It’s time for a new book study. We spent 5 months and 20 sermons in the book of Daniel. As we wrapped that up last week I noted how someone once said that Daniel is like Prophecy with training wheels because the angel explains the vision to Daniel. Well, now the training wheels come off. We’re jumping…

This is the final message in our Daniel series. We made it. What a ride it’s been. It is my habit when teaching through a book of the Bible to give you an overall outline of the book on the front event and survey the book, and then we walk thought it chapter by chapter and verse by verse, and then as…

If you spend any amount of time online in Christian groups or following Christian personalities on platforms like X, it does not take long to discover that Christian love to argue, and they will argue about just about anything. One of the things they love to argue about the most is politics. In fact,…

This is the last Sunday of 2024. It is customary for many this time of year to do some extra reflections on the year that was and look ahead to the year that will be. Many make their new years resolutions. I’ve never really been much on new years resolutions, personally. It has been shown that these…

I have to tell you, that having grown up in the church, and having heard possibly 50-100 Christmas-time sermons, not because I’m that old, but because of advent series, I told myself that when I became a pastor, I would resist doing the traditional Christmas sermon, not because there is anything wrong…

How many of you are familiar with the children’s program Awana? When I was growing up AWANA was at its peak in popularity and function. They changed a lot since those days, but at that time the emphasis was on Scripture memorization and discipleship. As part of the program, those in AWANA clubs could…

When I first told one of my mentors that we were considering going through the book of Daniel, I was commenting to him how when you use the proper hermeneutic, all the prophecy stuff is really not as complicated as many make it out to be. He nodded his head in agreement, then made the comment “Well.…

Today was intended to be a time back in the book of Daniel, but Jim was scheduled to preach it. Sadly, he fell ill this weekend and thus is unable to preach, and I am not going to preach his notes. So today I’ve dusted off notes of something I’ve taught in the past, although it was before we were meeting…

We will be taking a 1-week break from our study of the book of Daniel as we look at some things related to our conference theme this morning. It’s been a great conference this weekend, very grateful to have Jon and his family here. I’m sad they couldn’t be here at church this morning, but understand…

The things I am going to you today are things that would get you and me mocked and derided in certain evangelical churches and seminaries today. In fact, outside of a handful of church traditions, but the position that I am going to teach today is part of a larger framework that has been blamed for the…

And now. The Moment you’ve all been waiting for. I don’t know if you feel that way, but I kinda do. The end of Daniel 9 . the 70 weeks. This prophecy is arguably the most foundational piece of end time prophecy from a dispensational perspective. Many of the things we associate with our theology have…

As we come into chapter 8, there are a few things that need to be noted. With chapter 8, we move back into the Hebrew language. If you recall, Daniel is a unique book that is split almost 50/50 between Hebrew and Aramaic. Chapter one is in Hebrew, and functions as the prologue to the book. Chapters 2-7…

So often when we come to books of the Bible that are full of stories that are so familiar to us, we run the risk of glossing over them. Our text today is one of the most iconic stories in the bible. We know it like the back of our hand right? Daniel and the lion’s den. A made up law about prayer, Daniel’s…