On Sunday morning, we talked at St. Paul Church about how Chuck Colson after his prison conversion was an example of what 1 John 3:1 was talking about: The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. (1 John 3:1 ESV) The man who came out of prison didn’t … More Stop Making Sense
The Spirit of God showed up in our worship gatherings yesterday in a manner which I have seen occasionally, and which still always catches me by surprise. Our focus in worship was celebrating the love of God, in particular through the lens of 1 John 3:1-3, which shows us how God’s love causes God to … More What Only God Can Do
Note: this is an adaptation of part of the preaching from our Easter worship gathering. Sorry, if I’m irritating you with recycled content. Oh, and if you want to see the entire worship celebration, with loads of music and celebration and lifting up Jesus, you can go here. Jesus didn’t come, and live, and die, … More Rescued From Life
Yesterday’s sermon came out of Jeremiah 31:31-34. It’s a passage of hope and beauty about the New Covenant. It’s also a text that’s pointing the reader forward. The original recipients, exiled Judah, were being pointed to a promise that even though they were going back into a wilderness, there was going to be something of … More Preaching about Singing, Singing about Suffering
We’re in the latter stages of the season of Lent, which is a season inviting us to reflect on Jesus’ time of being tempted in the desert by Satan. His temptation season parallels both the time Israel spent between Egypt and Canaan, and our lives lived between being set free from slavery to sin and … More Living in the Desert
