Remember Who You Are

Through Christ our sin is forgiven and we are counted as holy in God’s eyes. Though we are sinners, we are counted as saints! And that’s how God wants us to live.

Counted Among the Sheep

“You are all a bunch of sheep!” That phrase has been tossed around quite a bit over the last year. And it’s not a compliment. Usually, it’s in reference to people who blindly follow someone or something. However, that picture of being a sheep is much different for the Christian.

A Mighty Fortress is Our God

Toys littered the ground, bundled bags of trash lined the hallway leading to the door, the whole place smelled like a diaper…

Everyone Can–But Few Will–Fit in at God’s Feast

Where do I fit in? Isn’t that a question that everyone asks? Whenever you start anything new: a new job, a new school, a new team, a new town, one of the first things you do is try to figure out where you fit in.

No Time For Distractions: “I Press On”

Everything has changed since January 9, 2007. Do you know what happened on that day? A man walked out onto a stage wearing jeans and a black turtleneck and everything changed.

A Parable of Three Sons

Imagine if you will, a household with two teenage sons. It’s a fall Saturday and the boys are vegging out in front of the TV playing their Xbox. They plan on there all afternoon. But their plan seems to hit a snag when dad walks in.

Grace is Not Fair

Praise God that he doesn’t pay us by contract. Thank the Lord that he has chosen to be generous. It’s all grace, and grace is not fair.

Romans One Word at a Time: Freedom

This might have been one of the hardest sermons I’ve ever had to write. Not hard in the sense that I didn’t know what I was going to write. But hard in the sense knowing how much I was going to have to leave out.

Romans: Love (A Citizen of Two Kingdoms)

The anger of political polarization and temptation of secular influence is all around. This brings challenges and opportunities for Christians who navigate living as citizens of two distinctly different kingdoms.

Romans One Word at a Time: Sacrifice

f someone described the life that you are called to live as a Christian as oxymoronic, how would you react? Would you think they were insulting you? Maybe that’s how it sounds initially, but actually an oxymoron is a literary term. An oxymoron takes two seemingly contradictory words and puts them together to describe something or someone. Jumbo shrimp, paid volunteer, and pretty ugly are all examples of oxymorons.