In his book In the Eye of the Storm, Max Lucado tells the story about “Chippie the Parakeet.” The story goes like this. Chippie’s owner decided to cleanChippie’s cage with a vacuum cleaner. She removed the attachment from the end of the hose and stuck it in the cage. But, just then, the phone rang,…
Shaped BY the cross into the shape OF the cross
Sermons on Resurrection
A few years ago, there was a poll that asked people the question, “If you could change one thing about your life, what would you change?” And the interesting thing is that almost everyone who responded to that poll gave an answer that related to their physical body. I wish I was younger. …
Over the past few months, we’ve been studying from I Corinthians, and this morning I want to continue in that book, but we’re going to jump ahead to chapter 15 and see what Paul has to say about the resurrection, and then next week, we’ll go back and pick up with chapter 10. …
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…
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…
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…