Learning to prepare
Time. Time is short. I am having an interesting time in preparation. When I filled a puplit I could take weeks to prepare… now preaching I am learning a different way to prepare. 🙂 Most of the time I end up with way to much to preach to our fellowship of believers… I know there […]
Scripture Alone
Today I am starting a preaching sub-series of Walking in the Commandments to follow the Sola’s of the reformation. Today is the Sola Scriptura and follows well under the last sermon. So much watered down doctrine in the church today, I am trying to ground us in the Bible as we set forthto become Living […]
Walking in Love
Funny when you realize suddenly you are preaching to yourself. Last week’s sermon Walk in Love was part three in “More than just Happily Ever After…” sermon series was dealing with the way Christians are supposed to walk in Love. In my studdies in preparation for this week I keep getting directed back to walking […]
a wisp of fog
James 4: 13-15 And now I have a word for you who brashly announce, “Today—at the latest, tomorrow—we’re off to such and such a city for the year. We’re going to start a business and make a lot of money.” You don’t know the first thing about tomorrow. You’re nothing but a wisp of fog, […]
Little words
Proverbs 12:18 Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. I knew I had done it, just as the words escaped my lips. I punished myself as I finished the sentence. The crush, the hurt, the pain was obvious, I could see it on her face. I said I was […]
Baby out with the bathwater?
Today the “church” celebrates ‘Candlemas‘ a holiday steeped in tradition from Jewish law and the Catholic church. Perhaps today we look at it as ‘Groundhog day‘ or just another day to go to work. Today as a historical celebration is of enough importance to have been recorded in scriptures and yet most Christians would not recognize the […]
Living Stones
As God continues to guide we are stepping out in faith to start a new church plant in our home. It has been a lot of God’s inner working to bring me to this point and yet I am ready. The challenges have started already and I am sure they will only continue to grow […]
Worship: Singing the Same Song!
I got an email from my father that was pretty neat for a son to get. It was a testimony of God’s working in his life. God continues to move even though we are old. Way old. 😉 It is interesting that I still wrestle with Dispensational vs. Covenant Theology… yeah probably not on many people’s radar […]
Happy New Year
Happy new year… it is well past the first of the year and a lot has gone on, I can sing with the Psalmist Praise to the Glory of God! Psalm 145 David’s Praise I lift you high in praise, my God, O my King! and I’ll bless your name into eternity. I’ll bless you […]