Sermons Archives

• The Christmas Story: Born for a Purpose  (December 1, 2006)
  Luke 2:1-12 As we study the events and details surrounding Jesus’ birth, we realize that there is a great deal of suggestion found in the elements of His birth scene. For example, the fact that there was no room for them in the inn suggests that “He came unto His own, and His own r
• Coming To Grips With Suffering  (June 1, 2005)
  2 Corinthians 12:7-10 In September of 1986, I was at work when my boss come to me and told me that I needed to go home. When I arrived at home, my mother met me at the door and told me that my dad was dead. He had been robbed and murdered. Three days later he would be laid to rest by a...
• God's Redemptive Plan  (June 1, 2005)
  A legend recounts the return of Jesus to heaven after his time on earth. Jesus bore the marks of his earthly pilgrimage with its cruel cross and shameful death. The angel Gabriel approached him, so the legend goes, and said, "Master, you must have suffered terribly for men down there."...
• The Christmas Story: Born for a Purpose  (December 1, 2006)
  Luke 2:1-12 As we study the events and details surrounding Jesus’ birth, we realize that there is a great deal of suggestion found in the elements of His birth scene. For example, the fact that there was no room for them in the inn suggests that “He came unto His own, and His own r
• Do You Want To Go To Dinner?  (July 1, 2005)
  Luke 14:16-24 We have received a great invitation. A formal invitation complete with our names penned in calligraphy, two envelopes, that transparent paper inside, and little RSVP slips included. A dinner invitation to beat all dinner invitations. God has offered ? we have accepted. No more eating...
• Preaching In The Public Square  (July 1, 2005)
  Sometimes we are called to proclaim good news in settings outside of a local church. These situations are a unique challenge and opportunity for a preacher. I was recently involved in such a circumstance....
• Praying Preachers  (July 1, 2005)
  The dire need of today's church is for preachers to become praying people in order to harness the resources of heaven and become channels of blessing. If society is to be impacted with the presence of the Lord, Preachers must have a vivid knowledge of the Holy One. That is discovered "in the...
• Heaven's Anything But Boring!  (July 1, 2005)
  Heaven confuses many people. Some don't understand much about it. Others are convinced they know all they want to know and have decided they aren't interested. A lot of people think heaven sounds boring with a capital B! Huck Finn said that he thought heaven was...
• The Value Of One, Two, Or Three  (July 1, 2005)
  Matthew 18 Sometimes a cartoon says it all. In a "Peanuts" cartoon, Lucy says to Snoopy: "There are times when you really bug me, but I must admit there are also times when I feel like giving you a big hug." Snoopy replies: "That's the way I am . . . huggable and buggable." I suppose we can all identify with...
• Packing up Christmas for Another Year  (November 1, 2004)
  Jeremiah 31:7-14, John 1:10-18
• Born of the Virgin Mary  (December 12, 2007)
  Born of the Virgin Mary Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 1:18) A few minutes
• Answers for Unanswered Prayer  (July 1, 2005)
  Exodus 2:22-23 Chaplain Max Helton prayed beside the car of Dale Earnhardt prior to the start of the 2001 Daytona 500. Earnhardt told Helton, "Just pray that I'll be wise in putting the car at the right place at the right time . . . and be able to drive with wisdom.? Holding hands, they prayed for wisdom and ....
• Hit By Friendly Fire: What To Do When Christians Hurt You  (July 1, 2005)
  Genesis 50:15-21; Philippians 3:8-10 One second. One mistake. One firing of the missile in the midst of the war. The missile cannot come back. The weapon is now headed for you. And the one who fired it is on your side. It is war. Hit by friendly fire. And this is not Baghdad or the...
• Spiritual Accounting 101  (March 1, 2005)
  Luke 16:1-16 "I found an old account ledger," writes Godfrey Davis, in his biography about the Duke of Wellington, "that showed how the Duke spent his money. It was a far better clue to what he thought was really important than the reading of his letters or speeches." That's why Jesus talked so much about...
• A Child is Born!  (November 1, 2007)
  Christmas (Isaiah 9:6-7 and Galatians 3:26-4:7)
• Living on Purpose  (July 1, 2005)
  Joshua 24:15 On September 1, 1985 explorer Robert Ballard made a discovery that made his heart leap into his throat. He later recorded his feelings about this event and said, ?My first direct view of Titanic lasted less than two minutes, but the stark sight of her immense black hull towering above the...
• Extreme Makeover - A Christmas Eve Message  (December 1, 2005)
  2 Corinthians 5:17 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!" All this evening, we have been lighting various Advent candles. One of them stands for the Wise Men. I have a Christmas Eve question for...
• What God Taught Me Through My Wife's Cancer  (July 1, 2005)
  John 1:5 I sat in a cushioned chair beside my wife?s hospital bed reading C. S. Lewis?s The Problem of Pain on the morning of August 15, 2002. Honestly, the pain was mine but it was more for my wife?s as she lay with bandages, tubes, and a morphine pump to ease the agony of the nine-hour surgery she had...
• Preaching the Psalms as Stories  (November 1, 2007)
  I had an epiphany while listening to Johnny Cash that transformed the way I preached the Psalms.
• The Resurrection Of The Dead  (December 1, 2006)
  Twenty-fifth in a series 1 Corinthians 15:12-58 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have died in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact Christ ha