Ishmael

Ishmael (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Genesis 16:1-16, 21:1-21
June 22, 2014

Most people come to church, I think, for one of two reasons: to find answers or to find help.

Some of us come to church to find answers.  We come from a life overfilled with ambiguity and uncertainty and conflict.  We want to be able to sort it all out, to make sense of it. … Continue reading ...

Not one of them is ever missing

Not one of them is ever missing (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Isaiah 40:25-27
February 8, 2015

Nobody knows the trouble I see …

Is that you?

When you are troubled, when you are distressed, what brings comfort?  Probably one of two things — either a change in your situation or a change in you, either a change in the distressing circumstances themselves or a change in perspective. … Continue reading ...

Be the church: share earthly and spiritual resources

Be the church: share earthly and spiritual resources (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Acts 4:32-35
April 12, 2015

[Play music video: “People Help the People” (Birdy)]
www.believersjournal.org/Movies/PeopleHelpthePeople.mov

and if I had a brain, oh and if I had a brain
I’d be cold as a stone and rich as the fool
that turned all those good hearts away

Lord, have mercy!… Continue reading ...