The story is told of a Post Office worker who found an unstamped hand-written envelope, addressed to God. It obviously couldn’t be delivered to God, so he decided to open it himself and he found that it was written by an elderly lady who was all stressed out because her entire savings of $200…
Shaped BY the cross into the shape OF the cross
Sermons on The Gospel
This morning, I want us to take a break from our study through the New Testament. Next Sunday, we’ll pick back up with 2 Corinthians. But this morning is Easter morning, and I want to spend some time reflecting on the significance of what happened some 2,000 years ago. I heard about a Sunday…
Have you ever had that experience where you’re looking for something, but you can’t see it even though it’s right in front of you? Sueanne will tell you that this happens to me frequently. I can look in the closet for a specific piece of clothing and insist that it’s not there only to discover…
Last week, we began a look at the book of Isaiah, and I made the statement that Isaiah is sometimes referred to as “the gospel according to Isaiah” because he had so much to say about the coming Messiah — his birth, his death, his resurrection. But, as important as the entire book of…
One of the things that is so impressive to me about the Christians of the first century is how they were able to maintain their spirit of joy in spite of the hardships they went through. There was joy even during times of persecution. And of all the things that should characterize God’s people, one…
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…
As I do research for my sermons, I often come across different polls that are taken on a variety of religious topics, and some of the results of those polls I find rather disturbing. It can be discouraging to see what people around us actually think about God or Jesus or moral issues. But…
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…