Category: Sermons

Aren’t We There Yet?

Watch on YouTube Acts 1:6-14 Today we commemorate the Ascension, which might feel like just another normal day in the life of Jesus the Messiah.  We don’t make as big a deal of the Ascension as we do Easter when Jesus was raised from the dead, forty days before, though some churches do. In the ...

Dear Unknown God

What makes a good friend?

What Are People Capable Of?

Watch on YouTube Acts 7:55-60,  1 Peter 2:2-10, John 14:1-14 “Making people uncomfortable can now get you killed.”  This was the headline of a New York Times editorial earlier this week.[1]  As evidence of this harsh reality, the columnist listed several of the recent neighborhood shootings in which someone accidentally ended up in the wrong ...

Refuge

Even when I walk through the darkest valley, I will not be afraid, for you are close beside me. Your rod and your staff protect and comfort me.

Unexpected Disassembly

Watch on YouTube Luke 24:13-35 Did you ever have one of those days when so much happens that it feels like you’ve lived an entire week in a single day?  Yesterday was like that for me. I got up extra early to come meet the Love Sterling crew from Sterling College.  Coach Randy and his ...