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The Screw Tape Letters
Pastor’s Bookshelf - Welcome to my bookshelf! Each month I will discuss a recent book that I’ve finished. This time I’d like to talk...
Sep 12, 2023
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The King Of Kings [Daniel 7]
Click HERE for the Sermon Notes.. Let’s talk about dreams for a second. I never remember my dreams. I’m sure I have them, but I wake up -...
Sep 10, 2023
De-Escalating Disciples: The Example Of Jesus In A Polarized World
De-escalation. It’s such a buzz word in our current culture, and yet it has such potent implications for followers of Jesus in the modern...
Sep 5, 2023
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A Watchman For The People [Ezekiel 33-34]
Click HERE for the Sermon Notes.. A long time ago in a galaxy far away called the Discovery Channel, there was an old TV show called...
Sep 3, 2023
Vine Among The Trees - Ezekiel 15:1-8
Click HERE to get the sermon notes (PDF) Vine Among The Trees - 08.20.2023 [Ezekiel 15:1-8] One of the things that I haven’t talked about...
Aug 20, 2023
All My Knotted Up Life
Pastor’s Bookshelf - Welcome to my bookshelf! Each month I will discuss a recent book that I’ve finished. This time I’d like to talk...
Aug 15, 2023
Preachers'N'Sneakers
Pastor’s Bookshelf - Welcome to my bookshelf! Each month I will discuss a recent book that I’ve finished. This time I’d like to talk...
Aug 15, 2023
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Divine Discipline [Jeremiah 30:1-11]
Click HERE for the Sermon Notes PDF.. When I was a kid, my parents were really strict. Dad was a pastor, my mom was a dentist - so there...
Aug 13, 2023
God and Neighbor - 2 Kings 23
Click HERE for the PDF Notes.. There’s an old story about a bishop who was visiting a church in California. And he looked on the way, and...
Aug 6, 2023
The Upside Down Kingdom
*The following is my manuscript that I used for a message delivered to the opening worship of Family Camp at Bayshore Camp. Based on...
Aug 4, 2023
The Bubble Effect
When my wife and I first got married we lived in and around Chicago. At one point we lived out in the western suburbs, but I was going to...
Jul 18, 2023
The Pilgrim Psalms - Psalm 118
Click HERE for the Sermon Notes.. The Pilgrim Psalms Psalm 118:19-29 Do you have to go to church to be a good Christian? How many times?...
Jul 16, 2023
The Insights of Mean Girls
One of the quintessential movies of my high school years was the high school comedy “Mean Girls.” Written by Tina Fey back in 2004, and...
Jul 11, 2023
The Sovereignty Of God
Click here for the sermon notes (PDF) The Sovereignty Of God - 07.09.2023 [Proverbs 30:1-10] I had a history professor in seminary who...
Jul 9, 2023
Dysfunctional Family Love - Hosea
Click here for the sermon notes (PDF).. Dysfunctional Family Love – 07.02.2023 [Hosea 11:1-11] There was once a woman named Corrie Ten...
Jul 2, 2023
On The Run - Jonah
Click here for the PDF.. Click here for the Word Doc.. On The Run - 06.25.2023 [Jonah 2:1-10] Dwight L. Moody, very famous evangelist...
Jun 25, 2023
American Idols - 1 Kings 22
Click here for the PDF.. Click here for the Word Doc.. American Idols - 06.18.2023 [1 Kings 22:41-50] You can’t “almost” be a Christian....
Jun 20, 2023
Keeping Your Focus [Song of Songs 4]
Click HERE for the PDF.. Click HERE for the Word.. Keeping Your Focus - 06.11.2023 [Song of Songs 4] CS Lewis, in his phenomenal book...
Jun 11, 2023
Solomon's Secret To Success
Click here for the Word Doc.. Click here for the PDF.. Solomon’s Secret To Success 1 Kings 4:29-5:5 One of my least favorite seasons in...
May 28, 2023
Outward Focus - 1 Kings 3:3-15
Click here for the Word Doc.. Click here for the PDF.. Outward Focus - 05.21.2023 [1 Kings 3:3-15] Have you ever played that game - what...
May 21, 2023
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