“We boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured…
“Simon, I have something to tell you.” Our subject today is candor, being honest and direct in a considerate way. We’ve all had times in our lives when we needed…
I was standing in line for the flume ride on a hot summer day a couple years ago at an amusement park in central Pennsylvania, when a very happy Saturday…
Anybody else doing a lot of sneezing lately in the last week or so? Spring is here, and everything is so beautiful! But for me at least, there is a…
Do you know JJ Witmer? Probably not. Well, he is an ordinary 11-year-old boy who lives in the suburbs of Boulder, CO. He walked dogs, he shovels snow, he retrieves…
When our kids were little, before I was a pastor, a man in our church named Pete bought himself a Porsche Boxster. I remember thinking, “Wow, I have never seen…
I wasn’t sure what title to give to this sermon today. I thought about, “No more Mister Nice Guy”! Over the last couple of months, as we’ve studied Mark, we’ve…
“I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.” If we were reading this passage on April 1st, we might think…
A guy is walking down the road in the middle of nowhere, when he comes across a farmer. What was he doing, walking down a road in the middle of…
Let me ask you a question…Have you ever been in the car driving teenagers around? They forget you are there andduring the journey the conversation flows and goes to unexpected…