Category Archives: Sermons

This evening I would like to tell you a story about something that happened to me a number of years ago; something that happened during my trip to Jerusalem. Ever since I was a kid, I had always wanted to go to Israel and see Jerusalem. As I grew up, my parents had told me [...]

Joshua is one of the few people in the Bible who didn’t have any major moral weaknesses or character flaws. He was strong, courageous, lived a life of faithfulness to the Lord, and became one of Israel’s most prosperous and successful leaders! Joshua’s Life Joshua was the son of Nun of the tribe of Ephraim, [...]

Many years ago in a land far away, the Israelites were slaves to the Egyptians. For 400 years Pharaoh brutalized the Israelites and forced them to make bricks and build the great storehouses of Egypt. When Moses came along, a new hope dawned. They wondered if he would be the chosen one who would deliver [...]

Have you ever heard of the medical condition called “arteriosclerosis?” It is a form of coronary heart disease that refers to the hardening of the artery walls throughout the body. Arteries are blood vessels that carry oxygen and nutrients from your heart to the rest of your body. Healthy arteries are flexible, strong, and elastic. [...]

“So I have a younger brother and he’s super cool- he has awesome grades, and is a great athlete. Everyone always brags that he’s going to be the next Michael Jordan or whatever. However, nobody remembers me, or at least it doesn’t seem like it. I hated all the people from my high school, but [...]

Today I would like to share something with you that I have never shared with you before. It’s about my own life and it is a little awkward to talk about. It wasn’t until I became an adult that I discovered that the parents that raised me were not my real biological parents. I grew [...]

Have you ever wondered why bad things happen to good people? Why do healthy people get cancer? Why do responsible people have financial problems? Why do hard working people get robbed and nice families get killed by drunk drivers? Why do Christians get persecuted for their faith? Why do some people suffer for doing the [...]

Jacob “He Deceives” (Gen. 25:19-26) Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah. For twenty years they tried to have children, but they were unsuccessful. But Isaac prayed fervently and faithfully to God and when he was sixty years old, Rebekah conceived and gave birth to not only one son, but two. Now anyone [...]

When I was in college, I had a friend named Randall who lived a few doors down the hall from me. Even though he was a senior and I was a freshman, we quickly hit it off. I suppose it had something to do with our mutual passion for the game of ping pong. On [...]

When I was in elementary school, I was a terrible student. My attitude was atrocious and my behavior was unbearable. I never did my homework and I thought the purpose of standardized tests was to see how many cool designs I could make by filling in those little circles on the answer sheet with my [...]