It was Martin Luther, the great Reformer, who first spoke of three conversions: “conversion of the heart, conversion of the mind, and conversion of the purse. Unfortunately, not all at the same time!” It is in the spirit of this quote that we proceed this week in our series “Follow Me” with a message based...
I hope I am not the only person that has been told to “act your age!” Yet, there have been times when that phrase was necessarily applied because I was acting or speaking in a manner that was not very becoming. I believe that this phrase is applicable at times, not just in our ordinary...
We continue the sermon series “Follow Me” we are going to be looking at how we follow Christ, in submission to the will of God, in a world hostile to God. In 1 John 2:15-17, the apostle John gives a warning that we are not to love the world, or the things of the world because...
The definition of a cliché is “a hackneyed theme”…Gee, thanks dictionary, now I have to go look up hackneyed! The definition of that word means “lacking in freshness or originality”. So a cliché is in essence a phrase/expression that is lacking in originality. That’s a fairly unappealing descriptor which should make us wonder why we...
In any given generation, there are a number of changes a society witnesses. A few come to mind almost immediately for me: a generation ago who would have dreamed of buying bottled water, or watching a feature movie anywhere but a theatre, or carrying in your pocket a device with more than a million times...
If you spend about 10 minutes watching the news or scrolling on Facebook would would see that we have a problem with injustice in this country. The truth is we have always had an issue with injustice since the beginning of time. Injustice is a result of sin in the world and sin in each...
