April 17, 2012 – 10:15 AM
How important is your vision? Many people today struggle with vision loss, (it’s an age related condition) and so they seek various corrective measures like cataract surgery to repair it. I’ve heard people say that of all the senses they could lose, vision would be the most intolerable. One would no longer be able to [...]
March 14, 2012 – 11:46 AM
The church of the twenty-first century often functions with an upside-down mentality. Rather than being a means to an end, the means have ultimately become an end in and of themselves. Here are a few examples: -in the church, form should follow function, rather than function following form. -the church should be seen as a [...]
February 17, 2012 – 10:56 AM
The following is the second installment in my recent series of sermons of the faithful church. The sermon was originally preached on Sunday morning, January 15, 2012. The main text of the sermon is Colossians 1:15-18. If you want to hear the sermon, click on the link here. Why do you attend church? What compelled you [...]
February 4, 2012 – 5:12 PM
As promised, although a day late, I wanted to share the notes from my sermon on “The Features of a Faithful Church,” which I preached on Sunday morning, January 8th, 2012. (you can listen to the sermon online by clicking here) The sermon was based on the passage from Ephesians 4:11-16, which gives plenty of instruction [...]
February 4, 2012 – 4:52 PM
It’s almost time for our annual Missions Conference and, as always, the Lord has brought a terrific team of missionaries together to speak about their experiences and to challenge us to become more missions minded. The Mission Conference will take place during the week of March 11 through 18, 2012, featuring missionaries on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, [...]
January 31, 2012 – 7:53 PM
Over the last four Sunday mornings I preached a message series on various aspects of the Faithful Church. It’s really quite unusual for me to take a detour from my normal course of preaching through a particular book, such as I have been doing from the book of Joshua. But with the onset of a brand new year, I [...]
September 29, 2011 – 10:39 AM
Postmodernism is a word that’s been getting a lot of attention lately. The word is being used in theological and sociological circles as a label to describe our current culture. But perhaps it refers better to a certain subset of our culture, the younger generation that thinks and acts differently than the rest of us. So, [...]
August 26, 2011 – 12:39 AM
On August 26, 1961, in a little church in Genoa City, Wisconsin, a young man and a young woman made a covenant before God, their families, and their friends to become husband and wife. They pledged their vows to one another and united themselves under the Lordship of Christ for their marriage, home, and family. [...]
Jim Elliot – Missionary to the Waodani Indians of Ecuador (1927-1956) To the casual observer at the midpoint of the twentieth century, Jim Elliot might have seemed like an ordinary, bright, clean-cut, all-American boy. He had good looks, knew how to work hard, got good grades…and could easily have achieved “the American dream” of a successful [...]
I was recently informed about a brand new documentary film that just been released called “Divided.” (www.dividedthemovie.com) The movie is produced by a young man who investigates some hard questions about the practice of segregated church ministries and the impact they’ve had, especially on the youth. He himself was on a quest to discover a better and more Biblical [...]