Prayers for Today from Psalms 2. Praying for Our Children Psalm 127 - 128 1980 - Moody Monthly - cover story on abortion - famed surgeon C. Everett Koop (later to become Surgeon General of the United States) holding a baby in his arms. That picture and the article made me think deeply about abortion for the first time. Looking back, I am sure the issue gripped my heart because at the time our first child was 9 months old. Issues like abortion are political on one level, mora

The Apocalypse week 7 The Two witnesses Key Text: Revelation 11:1-14 “it’s always darkest before the dawn” is a great encouraging statement to those going through tough times. However, the problem is that we still have to endure the darkness right ?We still have to wait for the dawn, and in the midst of darkness showing its hand the dawn often seems too far away. It seems that when the first rays of light are seen darkness is right there waiting to rise up again and try and s

Prayers for Today from Psalms 1. Praying for a New Perspective Psalm 8 God is king and worthy of our praise! How great is our God! Our order of service will be different today. We’ll begin with the preaching, then move to praising and end with praying. Don’t worry, this is not the new normal. It’s OK if you don’t like it because we’ll probably not do it again…at least for a while. Here are 4 reasons we’re changing it up. 1. When the order is too predictable we can get passive

The Apocalypse Week 6 The Angel and the little Scroll Key Text: Revelation 10 So who hear has heard the following “facts”? - Napoleon was short. - We only use 10% of our brains. - Touching a baby bird will make its mother reject it. - George Washington had wooden teeth. - You have to drink 8 glasses of water a day. - Vikings wore horned helmets - The great wall of China can be seen from Space - Or that Albert Einstein failed High School

The Most Excellent Way Key Text: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Intro: “Love is the greatest thing” has got to be the most optimistic and simplistic view of what love actually is. Love is risk, it is terrifying, it is surrender. Love is allowing someone else to have the center of your life to become your most precious thing; essentially love is venerability. I am talking about real love, not puppy love nor, infatuation, I am talking about selfless love that has another person in min

The Apocalypse week 5 The Judgments Poured out Revelation 8 and 9 Change terrifies us doesn’t it? What if that change is cause by catastrophe? The change that is forced by the death of a loved one the election of a wrong president, or the loss of savings. In all this we are forced to move on and just get on with life? We don’t want to; we want to stop and pause. Rather stay in the pain than be forced to move on .It seems wrong; however, it is inevitable and things move on. W

Parables Alive! 8. Be Ready! Matthew 25: 1 - 13 We’re concluding our Parables Alive series today. The setting is a wedding ceremony where the groom, not the bride is delayed and a few things head south during the celebration. In Matthew 24 we see that Jesus is doing some private teaching with his disciples in response to their questions about His 2nd Coming - v. 3: “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?” There

The Apocalypse week 4 The 144 000 Key Text: Revelation 7 In preparing this message I asked the question why all the interest in a number? Why do people take such interests in this obscure passage in Revelation? Well, I believe it is because we wish to know our destiny. Some part of us want assurance. And now there has been some who have stated that only a few will be saved and that has affected our assurance so we react to it and therefore we have interest in it. But in fact,