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Category Archives: Sermons
Sunday Sermon’s Today: Dealing With Adversity (Nehemiah 4:1-15)
One of my favorite movies of all time is The Power of One. It’s based on the Bryce Courtenay novel, but the film version stars Morgan Freeman as Geel Piet, a black South African who teaches a young man named PK … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Sermons, Sports, Theology
Tagged bryce courtenay, daniel craig, morgan freeman, stephen dorff, the power of one
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Sunday’s Sermon Today: Are You For Or Against? (Nehemiah 2:11-20)
I love to go to different stadiums, to see teams play. There’s something about being there in person that brings a different degree of enthusiasm out, as the crowd chants, and you can hear the sounds of the sport. But … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Sermons, Theology
Tagged all in, dating your spouse, jerusalem, nehemiah, relationships, sanballat, tobias
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Sunday’s Sermon Today: Rebuilding Mode (Nehemiah 1)
Sometimes, broken things have to be broken even more before they can be rebuilt. But an eye for what things can be shows the beauty in the broken. In The Six Million Dollar Man, the astronaut Steve Austin is nearly killed in a … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Sermons
Tagged bruce almighty, Evan Almighty, meant to live, nehemiah, Six million dollar man, steve austin, Switchfoot
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Sunday’s Sermon Today: Muddy Water (II Kings 5:1-14)
I have a confession to make: I am in the top 10% of the whiniest people when I am sick. The top thirty to forty percent is probably filled with men, as women seem to be more capable of getting … Continue reading
Sunday’s Sermon Today: Resurrected Dreams (II Kings 4:8-35)
My dad preached a sermon several years ago about what love was. He said that love was a relationship that must include God. We say we “loved” a movie or “love” that jersey/sweater, but that love involves people and our … Continue reading
Posted in Sermons, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged and bob, aslan, Chronicles of Narnia, dreams, elisha, gehazi, langston hughes, Me, myself, Phil Vischer, shunnamite woman, veggietales, what the world needs now
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Sunday’s Sermon Today: Don’t Look Back (I Kings 19:1-18)
In one of my favorite movies growing up, a chubby kid named Chunk gets kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers named the Fratellis. They cross-examine him about the location of a treasure trove, and he doesn’t know exactly what … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Pop Culture, Sermons, Theology
Tagged Chunk's confession, depression, Elijah, our pasts, sweet frog, The Goonies
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Sunday’s Sermon Today: Make It Rain (I Kings 18:18-38)
In the film Leap of Faith, the traveling revivalist Jonas Nightengale is very convincing. He works with his team of con artists to make sure that small town after small town experiences a “holy moment,” so that they’ll give Nightengale more … Continue reading
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Tagged drought, Elijah, Leap of Faith, Prophets of Baal, Steve Martin
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Sunday’s Sermon Today: Raised By Ravens (I Kings 17)
My high school mascot is a raven. A raven? I know, I know, fans of Baltimore’s football team have been parading around in purple and black-themed gear since 1996 when Art Modell fled Cleveland. But we played against serious teams … Continue reading
Posted in Pop Culture, Sermons, Uncategorized
Tagged 300, Baltimore Ravens, Elijah, Jonah, portsmouth abbey school, the jungle book
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Sunday’s Sermon Today: God Comes Near (I Kings 5:1-6, 8:1-13)
For his fourth birthday, our family pooled their funds and we bought my son a wooden play set. My wife, my inlaws, and I worked for two and a half days to screw it all together. It was one of … Continue reading
Posted in Pop Culture, Sermons, Theology
Tagged God's presence, I Kings 5, I Kings 8, Immanuel, John 1, matthew 1, Solomon, Temple, tree house, wooden play set
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Sunday’s Sermon Today: Uncommon Sense
If you could have just one thing from God, what would it be? I wish I could’ve polled you, the congregation reading this online and those in church today, to see what the answers were. I imagine they would include one more … Continue reading
Posted in Pop Culture, Sermons, Theology
Tagged be uncommon, common sense, dreams, I Kings 3, Solomon, tony dungy, wisdom
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