About 3,000 new converts in one day. Can you imagine that?  What a spectacular success!  Peter preached to the crowd gathered on Pentecost, and explained the gospel to them.  The…
“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…

The Candor of Courage

May 2, 2021
“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…

Peace Be With You

April 11, 2021
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…

Priceless

March 28, 2021
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…

The Withered Fig Tree

March 14, 2021
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…