Christmas 2017… once again one of “high holy seasons” is upon us: Christmas. It is interesting that Christmas was not even a ‘thing’ celebrated in Christian churches until the 336 AD, when the Emperor Constantine institutionalized it as official in the Roman Empire. The incarnation of Christ was certainly understood and celebrated by Christians prior to that, but the ‘platforming’ of it…
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Message Series (Page 2)
It depends on how you see it. Everything hinges on whose vantage point you trust. It is a matter of PERSPECTIVE. We live in a world where we try to make sense out of what sometimes seems senseless. That is an understatement in light of the tragedy that took place in Las Vegas this past Sunday night, October 1st. We live in…
Perspective is defined as: the capacity to view things in their true relations or relative importance. If there were ever a time for people to develop and maintain a healthy perspective, it’s now. We live in a world that seems to have danger around many of the corners of our lives. It would be easy to want to escape or deny all…
This Sunday, we will be wrapping up a three month (12 week) series on relationships that we called, The Struggle Is Real. I have been surprised, disappointed and stunned by how many people have commented to me that they can’t wait for this series to be finished. I didn’t know exactly what the problem was, so I inquired if the topic was boring…
As we engage and deal with all the relationships in our lives, we find both ends of the spectrum: joy and sorrow. Walter Trobisch, a European author and pastor, once wrote that learning to love in our relationships, …is anxiety and contentment, it is deep yearning and hostility, it is pleasure and pain, there is not one without the other. Happiness is…
This summer, we are trying to address the area of relationships in our lives. On one level, this focus could be seen as some pretty light weight stuff. We could be talking about the fluffy and idealistic Disney type things of Prince Charming and Sleeping Beauty finding love and living happily ever after. Unfortunately, that story (and others like it) are actually…
At the end of the day and when all else fails, our most significant disappointments in life are usually something that is connected with our key relationships. We can survive employment failures. We know that eventually we will not be able to maintain our athletic abilities, at least not at the same level that we are used to. We even realize that…
Luke chapter 15 gives us insight into the heart of God. It reveals that God, and all of heaven, are thrilled when people turn toward God, Himself. Now, let’s be honest… we usually don’t turn toward God until we are between a rock and a hard place. It is at the dead ends of life that we begin to consider God as…
Jesus tells a triad of stories, recorded in Luke chapter 15, that reveal the depth of God’s love for people… all people… even people who are hard to love or may not seem like they deserve love. Each of these parables, that Jesus tells, are aimed at exposing the heart of the religious elite of His day. It is these religious elite…
We have been asking the question of ‘What does it looks like to love?’ for the past several months. I trust that the significance of that question and its ‘descriptions’ have begun to infiltrate your heart and your daily experiences. This past week, we saw in I John 4 that “mature love cast out fear,” for fear is caught up in the potential of punishment. As followers of…