Sermons Archives

• Heaven's Anything But Boring!  (July 1, 2005)
  Heaven confuses many people. Some don't understand much about it. Others are convinced they know all they want to know and have decided they aren't interested. A lot of people think heaven sounds boring with a capital B! Huck Finn said that he thought heaven was...
• The Value Of One, Two, Or Three  (July 1, 2005)
  Matthew 18 Sometimes a cartoon says it all. In a "Peanuts" cartoon, Lucy says to Snoopy: "There are times when you really bug me, but I must admit there are also times when I feel like giving you a big hug." Snoopy replies: "That's the way I am . . . huggable and buggable." I suppose we can all identify with...
• Packing up Christmas for Another Year  (November 1, 2004)
  Jeremiah 31:7-14, John 1:10-18
• Born of the Virgin Mary  (December 12, 2007)
  Born of the Virgin Mary Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 1:18) A few minutes
• Answers for Unanswered Prayer  (July 1, 2005)
  Exodus 2:22-23 Chaplain Max Helton prayed beside the car of Dale Earnhardt prior to the start of the 2001 Daytona 500. Earnhardt told Helton, "Just pray that I'll be wise in putting the car at the right place at the right time . . . and be able to drive with wisdom.? Holding hands, they prayed for wisdom and ....
• Hit By Friendly Fire: What To Do When Christians Hurt You  (July 1, 2005)
  Genesis 50:15-21; Philippians 3:8-10 One second. One mistake. One firing of the missile in the midst of the war. The missile cannot come back. The weapon is now headed for you. And the one who fired it is on your side. It is war. Hit by friendly fire. And this is not Baghdad or the...
• Spiritual Accounting 101  (March 1, 2005)
  God is the real owner of everything. We're just His managers.
• A Child is Born!  (November 1, 2007)
  Christmas (Isaiah 9:6-7 and Galatians 3:26-4:7)
• Living on Purpose  (July 1, 2005)
  Ballard spent 13 years of his life searching for the long-lost Titanic. He had dreamed of it even before beginning the expedition.
• Extreme Makeover - A Christmas Eve Message  (December 1, 2005)
  2 Corinthians 5:17 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!" All this evening, we have been lighting various Advent candles. One of them stands for the Wise Men. I have a Christmas Eve question for...
• What God Taught Me Through My Wife's Cancer  (July 1, 2005)
  John 1:5 I sat in a cushioned chair beside my wife?s hospital bed reading C. S. Lewis?s The Problem of Pain on the morning of August 15, 2002. Honestly, the pain was mine but it was more for my wife?s as she lay with bandages, tubes, and a morphine pump to ease the agony of the nine-hour surgery she had...
• What Do You Believe About the Bible?  (February 9, 2009)
  Apparently the Bible was once included in a notable professor's list of the five most influential books, but he has since dropped it because "It has gotten all mixed up with questions of belief in what is now an insanely religious country."
• Preaching the Psalms as Stories  (November 1, 2007)
  I had an epiphany while listening to Johnny Cash that transformed the way I preached the Psalms.
• The Resurrection Of The Dead  (December 1, 2006)
  Twenty-fifth in a series 1 Corinthians 15:12-58 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have died in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact Christ ha
• What Is Your Life?  (January 1, 2007)
  James 4:13-17 The message of James in our text today is one that no person should overlook or disregard. The message in this text is one that, if heeded can alter how we live our lives today and every day for the rest of our lives. I doubt that the lessons I am about to share with you are new i
• Shrewd for God  (January 1, 2007)
  Luke 16:1-9 Frank had always loved nice stuff, but as an employee of FEMA for 32 years most of these things were unaffordable. Things had changed recently, though. His co-workers first noticed the new iPod. Then it was the new clothes, the week-long luxury cruise, and even the new car. Everyone
• A Faith That Won't Quit!  (January 1, 2007)
  Matthew 15:21-28 Have you ever had someone that you didn’t get along with? Maybe it was someone you had just me, and you simply didn’t “click.” Or maybe you were taught by your family not to like certain people. One of the most famous family feuds in American history i
• To Those Who Have Loved and Lost  (February 1, 2007)
  Jeremiah 29:11 (Note: This message was originally preached as part of an annual county-wide memorial service for families of traffic fatalities.) Grief is an experience common to all of us. We all lose someone we love at sometime. The difference lies in the names and circumstances of our losse
• Is There Hope for World Peace  (February 1, 2007)
  Matthew 24:3-13, Revelation 21:1-7   I received an interesting Christmas card from a dear friend, a retired Air Force General. On the front was a white dove with an olive branch in its beak, hovering above the world. Inside the card were these words: “Peace on earth.” Beside t
• Footsteps in the Garden: Guilt and Grace  (February 1, 2007)
  Genesis 3:7 "Then the eyes of both were opened and they knew that they were naked" (Genesis 3:7a) Let us look inside this human experience . . . this first experience with guilt and shame. Although Adam was fresh in human experiences, he knew he had never felt like this. While he had no