The Divine Crash

Today’s sermon is done, I’m exhausted, people seemed touched.  But most of all God was glorified.  You can listen to it at the bottom of this page or on my iTunes podcast.
Today’s scripture was 2 Kings 2:19-22 when Elisha went to Jericho and put salt in water that was “bad and making the land unproductive.” Suddenly the [...]

Accidents happen all the time.  According to my 10th grade history teacher so many inventions were created because of accidents.  Things like Bubblegum, Post-it Notes, Corn Flakes, The Slinky, and lots of other stuff were all magical inventions that happened by accident.  These were accidents that worked out for the better.

Sometimes like the pictures at [...]

Gnosticism is a belief that there is secret knowledge required to get into heaven.  In ancient times it was a belief that Jesus gave a secret code to his disciples and whoever knew that code got into heaven.  This led to all sorts of weird beliefs.  Some groups believed that a person could do anything [...]

Dear Jesus.
Today I finished up my third year of seminary.  I only have one more year to go.  However, this year was hard.  Probably my hardest one yet.
Please forgive me for all the times I neglected you so I could study harder
Please forgive me for all the times I put my grades ahead of my [...]

Another Sunday another time to worship Jesus (although isn’t that everyday?).  As usual you can download the sermon in iTunes or listen to the sermon after my notes.
Today’s scripture was Luke 4:16-21.  Jesus stands up, reads Isaiah 61:1-2, sits down, and states “This has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

Less than three months ago my family bought a brand new Kia, this car was my first ever brand new car.  It only had 7 miles on it before we bought it and now it has 2007 miles and it has its first scratch.  It isn’t a big scratch, it is right by the door [...]

I have been the pastor of a local church for over three years and I have learned a few things about how to build a church and how to kill a church.  Getting people to show up is easy, make people feel good and they will invite their friends and if they feel good the [...]

Today’s sermon was about sacrifice and seeing the work is what makes something sacred not the outcome.  You can scroll past all my notes and listen to it here or click here to open iTunes and download the podcast. Click below to read the notes, but I left out the illustrations and some other parts [...]