Sermon Series:Acts

Two weeks ago-like thousands of other teens in our county-my two daughters were in the middle of their final exams for this first semester of the school year. During that dreaded week they both had their noses stuck in textbooks-burning the midnight oil, cramming as much info as possible into their little heads. Sarah and […]

p>Acts 18:9-10 9 – One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision:”Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. 10 – For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.” Like you, these past few weeks […]

Every Saturday night, from the time I was a little boy-all the way up until I left for college-my dad and I went through the same basic ritual. I’d be down in the family room watching FLIPPER or one of the other popular Saturday night TV shows with my three siblings and Dad would come […]

A few months ago Sue and I decided to spend the afternoon of my day off watching a movie. So, after hurriedly getting our unavoidable “Thursday errands” done, we placed a carry out order at our favorite Chinese food restaurant and while it was being prepared we walked a few doors down to the local […]

I don’t know if anyone’s counting but we’ve been studying the book of Acts together now for about eight months and we’ve covered a lot of basic Christian truth. For example, we’ve learned a lot about MISSIONS beginning with our study of how the very first Christians obeyed our Lord’s command and shared the Gospel, […]

In the winter of 1979 the church I grew up in-The First Southern Baptist Church of Dover, Delaware-a church my father pastored for 27 years-this church that I tend to refer to as my “home church” – well, it went through a nasty split. And-it happened about the same time Sue and I decided to […]

Have you ever ADMIRED a particular church? You heard or read about the things they do and the way they do them and you thought, “Now, THAT is a church!” Perhaps like me you ADMIRE Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois-and they have a lot to admire-a wonderful pastor-BILL HYBELS-one of the greatest […]

Usually I start my sermons with a bit of humor-but this morning I felt led to get your attention in the opposite way-by asking you a serious question, namely: “Have you ever experienced a ‘dead end’ in life?” I mean, have you ever been faced with a problem that you just knew was impossible to […]

Several years ago Time magazine carried a story about a controversy that once raged in a Waterloo, Iowa courthouse over the question, “What is a Christian?” It all started when a local doctor who had been very wealthy died-and when his will was read it was discovered that he had left a large sum of […]

About a month ago, my son, Daniel, spent two weeks in Kenya on a school-sponsored medical mission trip. While there, he and six other pre-med students from Grove City College worked alongside a Physician’s assistant and a Pediatrician to staff a clinic for the Masai people out in the bush near a village called Lemeck, […]