Focal Passage: II Timothy 2:14-19, 22-26 It is a well-known fact that biblical illiteracy is at an all-time high. This is true of those outside of the church. But it is also true of those within the church. The people of “The Book” often do not know their own “Book.” This is sad and disturbing. In order to know God’s Word a person must study God’s Word. This was the
Focal Passage: Hosea 6:1-7:2 Recently, I was watching a movie that dealt with themes of father wounds. The father in the movie made many promises to his sons and failed on all of them. He promised his boys he would throw baseball with them and come to their games. He promised he would take them to get a dog. He promised he would teach them to fish. He
Focal Passage: Nehemiah 8:1-3, 7-12 Do you have a hearing problem? Some people tragically cannot hear because the internal mechanisms of the ear no longer work. However, many of us do not hear because we do not comprehend or process what is being said to us. When Jesus called the seven churches of Revelation to hear He was not asking if the hearing mechanisms of the ear worked; He was
Focal Passage: Hosea 1:2-9; 3:1-5 In 2005, the Guinness Book of World Records said that Percy and Florence Arrowsmith held two records — the longest marriage of a living couple (80 years) and having the largest married couple’s aggregate age (205 years). Before they died, they left good advice for those who want to have a lasting marriage. Percy humorously said the secret to his long marriage was just two
Focal Passage: II Timothy 3:1-5; 13-17 Lifeway Research and Ligonier Ministries recently released their 2022 State of Theology report, and the findings are not good. More than half of those surveyed do not believe Jesus is the only way of salvation; 73 percent believe Jesus was a created being and not eternal; 43 percent do not believe Jesus is God; 60 percent do not believe the Holy Spirit is a
Focal Passage: James 4:13-17; 5:7-11 Time is the only “commodity” that once you spend it you can never get it back. I have seen people accumulate and lose wealth and then do it again, all in one lifetime. I have observed people secure and then lose a job in a short period of time. But I’ve never seen anyone create time. Only God can create time (Genesis 1:1). What we
Focal Passage: Jonah 4:1-11 A passenger in a taxi cab leaned over to ask the driver a question, gently tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention. The driver screamed, lost control of the cab, nearly hit a bus, drove over the curb, and stopped just inches from a building. For a few moments everything was silent in the cab. Then, the startled driver asked, “Are you
Focal Passage: Jonah 1:15-2:10 Every believer in Christ has a testimony. And all of them are great! No matter the background or condition of a person before they met Christ, one thing every believer has in common — we were dead in our sin! Not half-dead, or a little dead, but dead-dead. Spiritually dead! But God made us alive! I don’t have a testimony of salvation that would make most
Focal Passage: James 4:1-10 “Enemy love” is one of the most difficult biblical truths to embrace. It is difficult to turn the other cheek and walk the second mile, especially when you’re being abused and misunderstood. “Enemy love” has become particularly difficult in our hyper-political age where anyone on the ‘other side’ of an issue is our enemy. Polarization is not THE issue, demonization is. Jesus declared in the Sermon
Focal Passage: Amos 9:5-15 The Bible’s “Famous Amos” did not make cookies; far from it! He identified himself simply as one who was “among the sheepbreeders of Tekoa.” He seemed to be saying, “I’m just one of the farmhands from the backside of nowhere.” But some of the most well-known words of the Bible came from him, words like: “Let justice run down like water, and righteousness like
Focal Passage: II Timothy 2:14-19, 22-26 It is a well-known fact that biblical illiteracy is at an all-time high. This is true of those outside
Focal Passage: Hosea 6:1-7:2 Recently, I was watching a movie that dealt with themes of father wounds. The father in the movie made
Focal Passage: Nehemiah 8:1-3, 7-12 Do you have a hearing problem? Some people tragically cannot hear because the internal mechanisms of the ear no longer
Focal Passage: Hosea 1:2-9; 3:1-5 In 2005, the Guinness Book of World Records said that Percy and Florence Arrowsmith held two records — the longest
Focal Passage: II Timothy 3:1-5; 13-17 Lifeway Research and Ligonier Ministries recently released their 2022 State of Theology report, and the findings are not good.
Focal Passage: James 4:13-17; 5:7-11 Time is the only “commodity” that once you spend it you can never get it back. I have seen people
Focal Passage: Jonah 4:1-11 A passenger in a taxi cab leaned over to ask the driver a question, gently tapped him on the
Focal Passage: Jonah 1:15-2:10 Every believer in Christ has a testimony. And all of them are great! No matter the background or condition of a
Focal Passage: James 4:1-10 “Enemy love” is one of the most difficult biblical truths to embrace. It is difficult to turn the other cheek and
Focal Passage: Amos 9:5-15 The Bible’s “Famous Amos” did not make cookies; far from it! He identified himself simply as one who was
