What’s next?

What’s next? (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
1 Peter 1:1-9
April 27, 2014

But what comes next?

It was an exhilarating, exhausting, excruciating, and euphoric week.  Not this week, but the preceding week, the week that began on Palm Sunday and ended on Easter Sunday.  If you paid close attention, if you followed Jesus every step of the way, if you opened your eyes and your ears to the horrors of what was done to him and the wonders of what was done by him, you were surely left limp, physically spent, emotionally drained. … Continue reading ...

It’s not fair

It’s not fair (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Isaiah 53:6
March 22, 2015

Life isn’t fair.

The University of Northern Iowa Panther men’s basketball team had a better won/loss record than Iowa State, a higher national ranking, and fared equally well against two common opponents, and yet the NCAA selection committee awarded Iowa State a “No. 3” seed and UNI a “No.… Continue reading ...