09
Feb 2018
As we read 1 Cor 11:23-26 we notice what our Lord said, “Do this in remembrance of Me.” What is it we are to remember? Could it be the incarnation? That God took upon flesh? That He inhabited a body like ours, frail weak and destined for the grave? Or could it be that He came from glory into this, comparatively speaking, pigpen of a place called earth. An earth, which He created so beautiful and perfect but now, is polluted with sin and death. He leaves glory to live here for......
Read More
February 08, 2018
Blessed, Broken, Given
I love a campfire. Perhaps it’s the crackling and popping sounds or the smell of burning cedar. Maybe it’s the way the immediate area is filled with an amber glow casting shadows into the surrounding...
February 06, 2018
Worship and the Long, Inward Look
When I celebrate the Lord’s table on the first Sunday of the month, it is something that excites me as I sense the Lord’s presence in a powerful way. It is also a time when...
February 05, 2018
Worship & Sacrifice
It’s impossible to ‘sanitize’ what God asked Abraham to do that day. “He said, ‘Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there...
February 02, 2018
Surpassing Your Vertical Limit
The vertical limit is a term that describes the highest altitude the human body can survive which most agree is 18,000 feet above sea level. It is the point where normal, life sustaining functions such...
February 01, 2018
The Good, The Bad and The Ungodly
The setting of Acts chapter 8 brings us to events that followed the martyrdom of Stephen and the spread of persecution throughout Jerusalem. It was time for at least one of the disciples of...
January 30, 2018
Dying for Lack of One Smile
In September of 2000, Kevin Hines was sitting on a crowded bus visibly distraught and wondering if even one person would notice him and ask if he was okay. No one did. He arrived at...
January 29, 2018
Free-Falling
Is there really a time or season for “everything under the sun,” as the writer of Ecclesiastes 3:1 proclaims? If I say amen, does that give me permission to embrace a time of anxiety for...
January 26, 2018
Covered
Dr. Harry Ironside was a gift to the Church. He was a fine Bible teacher and theologian. He pastored Moody Church in Chicago from 1929-1948. He’s said to have preached nearly 7,000 sermons that reached...
January 25, 2018
God Delights in You?
David was well acquainted with his sins – and like ours, they were many. I think perhaps the most difficult thing for David to wrap his mind around was that God would actually delight in...