Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for June, 2006

Sunday Night Thoughts – June 25

Posted in Sunday Thoughts, tagged , on June 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

This has been a great end to an interesting week. I could relate to the Psalmist David in some of his melancoly moments in the Psalms. Part of that changed as I read Paul’s letter to the church at Thessalonica. I was reminded that there is joy in serving others. That helped me greatly as [...]

Read Full Post »

A Unique Service of the Psalms

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on June 26, 2006 | 1 Comment »

My friend Mark Wilson shared on his blog about a service of the Psalms that they did today. The entire service consisted of Psalms 1 to 72, sung, spoken, and prayed. The whole service consisted of scripture and scripture only. They are going to do the second half next week. Mark and his congregation along [...]

Read Full Post »

Reflecting Christ

Posted in 1 Thessalonians, Holiness, Sermons on June 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Imagine with me that God has called you to spread his word throughout the empire.. In fulfilling God’s call, you visit many different cities, even starting new churches in these cities. Imagine after being in a new city for three weeks, the local government starts trouble for you. In a matter of time, your, effectively [...]

Read Full Post »

An Unexpected Blessing

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on June 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Tonight, my wife and I had the opportunity to take our teens to a local rehab center. (I keep trying to get out of youth work, but it keeps coming back to me.) The teens made cards for some of the residents last week. As we were walking in, several of the residents asked if [...]

Read Full Post »

Happy Father’s Day

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on June 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

As I’ve said before, I’ve never considered myself a writer, but I found this last year. It was written by Dave Drury. He and I attended Indiana Wesleyan University together. He is a great writer and has paraphrased Proverbs 31 for today’s father. Hope you enjoy! Proverbs 31 Dad

Read Full Post »

Sunday Night Thoughts – June 18

Posted in Sunday Thoughts, tagged on June 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

No, I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. Last week my family and I took a vacation to visit good friends. These are the friends that I wrote the silly song for that I wrote about last week. We had a great time visiting them. One of the spiritual gifts I know they [...]

Read Full Post »

Where Are The Men?

Posted in Father's Day, Sermons on June 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

You’re not just imagining it: Christianity is short on men. Here are the facts: The typical U.S. Congregation draws an adult crowd that’s 61% female, 39% male. This gender gap shows up in all age categories. On any given Sunday there are 13 million more adult women than men in America’s churches. This Sunday almost [...]

Read Full Post »

Sunday Night Thoughts – June 11

Posted in Sunday Thoughts, tagged , on June 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Wow! What a day. We had a great service today. As I mentioned earlier this week, our church was going to celebrate communion. When we received communion we celebrate. Look at these two definitions. Celebrate-to observe (a day or event) with ceremonies of respect, or rejoicing or to perform (a religious ceremony) or to announce [...]

Read Full Post »

Communion As Celebration

Posted in Celebration, Communion, Sermons on June 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

We have been doing a lot of celebrating around here of late. Three weeks ago we celebrated the 57th anniversary of our church. Just last week we celebrated the coming of the Holy Spirit to the early church and the birth of the Christian church. Today continues that theme of celebration. Today we want to [...]

Read Full Post »

Doing New Things

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on June 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Several weeks ago, I started this blog. Like I mentioned a few days ago, I never really considered myself a writer, even though I write a sermon each week. A year ago, I expanded to writing a monthly newsletter article for our church newsletter. This has now expanded to this blog. It’s been an interesting [...]

Read Full Post »

Older Posts »