There are some people who spend their entire lives searching for that one elusive dream. For example, the great explorer Ponce de Leon went to Florida searching for the Fountain of Youth. The Spaniards went to Mexico searching for the Seven Cities of Gold. Many have searched in Tibet for Shangri-La, a place of eternal…
Shaped BY the cross into the shape OF the cross
Sermons on 1 Corinthians
I remember when I was a kid, all the old people would talk about “the good old days”. Now, I find myself in that category of old people because I’m one of those folks who looks back and think about the good old days. Apparently, I’m not alone. A survey was taken among people 50…
This morning, I want to begin a new sermon series that I anticipate will carry us through the next several months. We’re going to be taking a look at the book of I Corinthians. Recently, I heard someone jokingly refer to this book as I Californians. Because, the truth is, California and the city of…
I don’t need to tell you that, over the past year, COVID-19 has changed life for all of us. One of the areas that has probably changed more radically than any other is the workplace. The abrupt closure of many offices and workplaces last year ushered in a new era of remote work for millions…
If someone were to ask you, “What’s the most important part of Christianity?”, how would you answer that? Obviously, everything in the Bible matters, but among all the do’s and don’ts and shoulds and shouldn’ts, what’s at the heart of it all? What do we tell people around us who have all but…
Years ago, there was a lawsuit brought against a doctor who passed the scene of an auto accident without stopping to render medical assistance. One of the people in that accident died from a loss of blood, so the dead man’s family then sued the doctor who was seen passing by. The court actually…
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…