(Click here to read the passage) Sometimes, circumstances in our lives are so different from our expectations, we begin to doubt our own beliefs and what we remember. This can happen to the best of us when tragedy strikes or we endure seemingly endless trials. Paul tells us that...
Doubt and Renewed Faith: Jesus’ Recipe for Renewal (Luke 7:18-23)
Politics for Keeps (Daniel 6)
(Click here to read the passage) With everything being turned into some sort of political issue, I think most of us are tired of politics. Polarization is draining at least, and destroys entire cultures at it’s worst. So, when I started preaching a series of sermons on the book...
God’s Amazing Work in Life and Death (Luke 7:11-17)
(Click here to read the passage) Nain is only mentioned once in the Bible. Jesus spent only a little time there, raising a widow’s son from the dead and causing quite a stir in the town and surrounding countryside. If the archeological guesses are correct, it was a fair-sized...
Requesting Help from a Higher Authority (Luke 7:1-10)
(Click here to read the passage) We all seem to have a lot to pray about lately. Safety in a pandemic, mercy during difficult circumstances, provision when we don’t have enough. It’s almost overwhelming at times. We pray for many different reasons. We don’t always think of it this...
Even If…
Prayer is a very personal practice. Most folks I know would never pray in public unless they were reciting something they know by heart, like The Lord’s Prayer. And then they would only do that in a group. Our personal prayer lives are appropriately considered private territory. So, I’m...
The Only Choice (Luke 6:46-49)
(Click here to read the passage) For the first time in hundreds of years, an earthquake struck near our home in the mountains. These are old mountains (the Appalachians), and, according to a seismologist who visited shortly afterward, “are not supposed to move.” When the quake struck, it destroyed...
Tell-Tale Fruit (Luke 6:43-45)
(Click here to read the passage) I love trees. I can sit and stare at the big oak in front of our house for hours, tracing the branches, wondering at its shape, imagining how many leaves it has, and watching the wildlife that abides under its protection. In the...
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