iI’s easy for us (at least it’s easy for me) to think that we love people when the truth of the matter is all we’re actually doing is thinking about loving people. But love, if it is true love, always does something.
This morning, we’re going to finish up our four-week series of lessons entitled “My Story.” If you missed the past three weeks, let me bring you up to speed. We’ve been discussing the fact that we are all creating our life stories, that one day we will all look back and tell stories about our…
This morning, we’re in the third week of a four-week series entitled “My Story”. If you missed the last two weeks, let me quickly catch you up. All of us have a story that we tell about where we’ve been, what we’ve done, and where we’re at. And it’s important for us to realize that…
Last week, I began a 4-week sermon series entitled “My Story”. Because it doesn’t matter whether you’re young or old, male or female, it doesn’t matter what race you are, whether you’re a church person or a non-church person, every single one of us has a story. And the good news is that all of…
This morning, I want to begin a four-week sermon series entitled, “My Story”. I think it’s safe to say that we all enjoy a good story. It’s always fun when you get together with people and you start telling stories – • “Let me tell you how God has been working in my life!” •…
You probably heard on the news a couple of weeks ago that Stephen Hawking died. Hawking was a renowned physicist and probably the best-known atheist in the world. He lived for decades with Lou Gehrig’s disease. In an interview he gave in 2011, he said that he “wasn’t afraid of death,” but he was in…
My guess is that most of you don’t pay much attention to who wrote the songs that we sing every Sunday morning, but I want to tell you a little bit about one of the songwriters. Her name is Fanny Crosby and Fanny is thought by some to be the greatest hymn writer in the…
When George Michael goes to church, he doesn’t have to go very far. Mr. Michael (who is not the singer, but someone with the same name) recently informed the town of Lake Bluff, Illinois, that he was not responsible for the $80,000 in property taxes that he owes on his $3 million-dollar mansion because he…
For whatever reason, Christians often seem hesitant to talk about sex, especially from the pulpit. But God is the creator of our sexuality. He created it for us to enjoy. Sex is a gift from God….
Solomon has a lot to say about pride. Pride is something we all struggle with and, in fact, I think pride and selfishness are built into us from birth. From the time we are little kids, we begin to calculate how we can maneuver to put ourselves in the number one position…