Have your testimony ready
The Holidays will provide many opportunities to share our life story. What is yours? Introduction This week I read a compelling book,...
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Sermons
These sermons have been sent out since July 2023 to the New Hope Global Church around the world, as well as to individuals stateside who wish to be added to my sermon recipient list. Each sermon includes a dominant image and a one-sentence description of its contents.
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"Who is wise and discerning amongst you?"
There is a wise saying from Solomon in Proverbs that many Christians have memorized, and it is directly relevant to James’ teaching on...
Fresh or Bitter Water
In our contemporary world, words of rage and unchecked slander on the internet have birthed culture wars, inflamed unthinking partisan...
His body is as good as dead
The kind of faith God responds to is not the "faith" our secular culture decries. In fact, many in our secular culture who do not believe...
Spiritual Practices for the Brain
This author describes how the practices of meditation, gratitude, compassion and service, empathy, enjoying nature, engaging creativity,...
Faith and Works
Over the centuries a major controversy within Christian apologists was - "Which was necessary the salvation - Faith in Christ alone? Or...
Beyond Appearances
In the fall sermon series on James I called James a counter-cultural book. The principles of godly living he espouses are directly...
The Path to temptation
The bible has much to say about temptation. Sermon today is called "The Path to temptation"
Sermon A Countercultural Life of Faith-Oct. 1, 2023
The Book of James challenges the lifestyle and perception of the dominant culture around us. This sermon is the opening sermon of a...
Sermon Shifting Gears 9 23 23
God has determined that learning how to shift gears emotionally and spiritually is a necessary lesson in life as a Christian!
Meditation on a Handicap Sticker
The issue in this sermon is how we can reframe life's nagatives - add a little bling.
Becoming the face of grace
I bought Khouri's Becoming the face of grace. Meditating on this theme has prompted this sermon.
Beauty's Restoring Power
My trip to Kentucky with Jaclyn to a beautiful Horse farm.
Laughter is good for the soul
I wanted to review a whimsical book enjoy
Joy and the Brain 08/27/2023
Yesterday was my last day as a pastor at Ogden Dunes. It was a time of great warmth, affection, appreciation from both sides--a very...
Being a Church where God's Presence and Power Abounds
I wrote this sermon initially for the Ogden Dunes community but will do a different sermon for my farewell next weekend at the Dunes....
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