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PSALMS OF ASCENT: Waiting  Psalm 130   This summer when my family and I were on vacation, we went to Legoland in San Diego.  They had a new ride there, Ninjago ride that my son was really excited to go on.  It was a 4-D type of ride where you're karate chopping things that are flying at you, and there's mist and smells.....   It was pretty epic!  We chose our time wisely as to when we wanted to ge...

PSALMS OF ASCENT: Perseverance  Psalm 129   Well, we're over a week in now, which means many of us are suffering from sleep deprivation.  Talking, of course, about the Olympics.  Anybody else?  Week plus in and you've stayed up way too late watching sports that in a week you won't care about!  I noticed that I'm spoiled; I don't even want to watch the qualifying races, I just want to watch the med...

Psalms of Ascent - Building - Psalm 127

PSALMS OF ASCENT: Restoration Psalm 126

PSALMS OF ASCENT: Worship  Psalm 122   What are we doing here?  Have you ever stopped to think about that?  I don't mean the existential question of: what are we doing here on this little blue ball that we call earth?  I'm not asking about the purpose of life or anything all that deep.  I'm simply asking, what are we doing HERE?  At this moment in time, for this hour and fifteen minutes on a Sunda...

ALL I AM: Breathe In, Breathe Out Hebrews 11:21 & Genesis 48 Growing up as a kid, I used to love going to amusement parks. We grew up near Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm, and Six Flags, so I used to love to ride those roller coasters whenever we had the chance. I can remember, as a little kid, standing in line and seeing the loops and flips the coaster would do and each step in line getting closer...

ALL I AM: Going Back and Moving Forward Genesis 35:1-15 Like many of you, we have two junk drawers in our kitchen. Don't lie and say you don't have them! We've got them and it's the place where we put everything that doesn't have a place. It's also the place where we put things that are on counter when we're having people come over! Oh crud, they're knocking on the door right now! and we pull ever...

ALL I AM: Hulk Hogan and Hebrew Heroes    Genesis 32:22-32   It wasn't the day that it took place that was actually the hardest.  It was the next morning.  It was waking up and before becoming totally conscious of what the day held ahead, it was that thought for just a brief moment that maybe, just maybe, the previous 24 hours were a terrible nightmare.  But as I wiped the sleep out of my eyes and...

I began chemotherapy last February and will finish the 6th cycle this month. I am two thirds of the way through my sixth chemo cycle right now, as I stand in front of you. First of all, I want to thank South Fellowship, and so many others around the country and the world, for walking with us through this journey. Thank you for surrounding us. Loving us. Supporting us. Encouraging us.

ALL I AM: Transition Time - Genesis 30 & 31 When I was 11 years old, my dad's company that he was working for in California closed their doors. They had offices all over and we were offered four different places to move. We could move to Sacramento, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City or glorious Denver. Praise be to God, my parents chose wisely!! I grew up in California and that was all I knew. My whole fa...

ALL I AM: Filling the Void Genesis 29 & 30 I have quite the challenge in front of me -- I am preaching on Mother's Day out of a passage that has to do with polygamy! Pray for me. In fact, it's even a little bit deeper than that....not only is it about polygamy, it's sorta of a sister-wives meets "Desperate Housewives" meets intervention. That's where we're going this morning. If you've been with u...

ALL I AM: Stairway to Heaven I grew up in a family that went to church every single Sunday. While I wouldn't say I was a begrudging participant, I definitely didn't have a faith in Jesus in the way the Scriptures describe that. My parents were very involved (in the church), but my interest in church, for the first number of years in my life, up to the age of 10, revolved around a man by the name o...

ALL I AM: Crazy Uncle Laban Genesis 28-30 Pastor Josh Billings One of the things I do is read through my passage as many times as I can when I prepare for a sermon. I read through this one a couple times and was asking God what kind of analogy I should use, what kind of story to bring up and something hit me. Benedict Arnold came to mind! One of the greatest deceivers and traitors in American hist...

December 26, 1919, a decision was made that definitively shaped two organizations for the next 85 years. Harry Frazee sold one of his best players. His name was George Herman Ruth---you might know him as "The Babe." For $125,000, the owner of the Boston Red Sox, sold the rights of George Herman Ruth (the Babe) to the dreaded New York Yankees. For the next 85 years, the Boston Red Sox lived under "...

ALL I AM: Family of Promise Genesis 25:19-28 As a kid I used to love to hear my grandparents tell stories. The grandparents on my mom's side of the family (my grandfather specifically) had some stories to tell. I don't how many of them were true, but they were all intriguing, at least the first time around. He used to share about his time in war in the South Pacific where his boots would have been...

WALKING IN GLORY  Romans 6:4-5   January 30, 2009, at 11:37, a nurse at Palomar Hospital handed me a baby.  My baby!  Ethan--6 pounds, 10 ounces, little tiny guy, but as she handed him to me, I had this overwhelming feeling that my life would never be the same.  I'd fallen in love in a way I never knew I could and I also sensed that although he weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces, he actually weighed a li...

THE LORD'S PRAYER: Kneeling for Battle   Matthew 6:13   The year was 1720, the date June 21st.  The pirate, Bartholomew Roberts, was just about to sail in to the Trepassey Bay in Newfoundland, the easternmost part of the United States of America.  As he got ready to enter that bay, he noticed that there were twenty-two merchant ships lined up around the coast of the bay.  In that day, merchant shi...

THE LORD'S PRAYER: Releasing the Records    Matthew 6:12   Have you ever tried to think back and figure out what your earliest memory is?  Not one that you've seen in pictures or stories that you've heard, but genuinely the thing from your past that's the very first thing that you can remember.  For me, I was five years old.  It was my birthday and I had been given a Big Wheel for my birthday.  Hu...

If you've been with us over the past few weeks, you know we've been walking through a series on the Lord's prayer.  If you're new with us, welcome, we're really glad you're here.  We're going to be diving into one of the stanzas in this prayer and trying to ask God God, what do you want us to hear from this portion of this model prayer that you gave your disciples to pray -- a way for them to inte...

“Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” (Matthew 6:9–13 ESV)

BREATH OF HEAVEN: The One Thing that Changes Everything - John 8:31-32 & Romans 13:8-9 A number of years ago, I got into road biking and I never thought I'd be a road biker, but my wife got me a bike for Christmas.  I was looking for another way to get out and enjoy beautiful Colorado and, indeed, over the last few years, I've really grown to love the sport of road biking.  I had a friend who invi...