The Divine Crash

Sunday’s sermon was from Matthew 4:1-11 focusing on the temptation of Jesus.  You can download the sermon on iTunes or listen to the audio here.  This sermon was quite fun and a little controversial.  I love to step into a pulpit for teaching and let the Holy Spirit move in new ways for the people [...]

The other day I was reading Psalm 1 and I was thinking about what it meant for me today.
“How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!”
I was reminded of what it means to be [...]

Last week I went and bought the obligatory thanksgiving turkey. This turkey was on sale for 49 cents per pound.  We only needed at 5 pound turkey for the 4 people eating dinner today.

Recently I went back to the town I grew up, it is a lovely little town.  When I grew up there were the usual churches; Baptist, Methodist, Free Methodist, Independent Baptist, Presbyterian and one non-denominational.  All of these church had been around for a hundred years or more and all the families grew up in [...]

On Friday, my entire family, and some friends went to the Jimmy Stewart festival. It is a festival in my town where everyone (including Santa Claus) gather to have a parade and worship the local hero/actor.  We ate at the Pita Pit and hung out with friends and then watched the parade.  We even saw [...]

Today’s sermon continued moving through Matthew backwards and we studied the calling of the first disciples; Peter, Andrew, James, and John.
Jesus comes from the land of Zebulun and Naphtali, this is a land that has been occupied by foreign governments for centuries leaving the people beat down with the boot of society on their necks.
You [...]

Sunday morning is the most exhausting and exhilarating time of the week for me.  I don’t know what I would do if I wasn’t a pastor, perhaps I would be a parking enforcement officer that way I could drive a cool car.

Recently I heard a pastor talk about times when we have weak faith and we feel far from God we can “fake it ’till we make it.”  This is the anti-gospel.  When we fake our faith until we have faith we say that we don’t need Jesus because we can pretend everything is fine and [...]