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The Two Kingdoms presentation is an evangelism tool used by missionaries in Zimbabwe too reach people for the Gospel, using images they can easily relate to. While in Zimbabwe were able to participate in a training for pastors and church members not...

Last week we looked at one of the most well known passages in all of Acts. It gives us a picture of what a healthy church should look like. They broke bread together, listened to the teaching of the apostles, and fellowshipped with one another. It’s a...

I hope everyone is enjoying this sermon series Fired Up as much as I am as we go through the book of Acts this summer. Taylor began our series a couple of weeks ago and reminded us that we like the apostles have kingdom work to do. We must stay busy...

It Is hard for me to read about the coming of the Holy Spirit without thinking about it’s work in my own life. A multitude of times throughout my life I can remember my Spirit filled mother’s wisdom coming to me out of the overflow of her heart. I...

I want you to take yourself back to this moment. Your leader and teacher that you have been with every single day for the last 3 years is leaving you. He instilled in you everything you would need to be able to continue your job without him, but yet...

This is the 300th year of our city. I am amazed at that. Think of the amount of history that is involved from 1718 to 2018. I read somewhere that the traditional date of the anniversary is May 7th, but the actual day is unknown. Some interesting...

“I am the resurrection and the life,” Jesus said in John 11:25. It is the only time that anastasis is used to describe the resurrection of Jesus in the Gospels. In Matthew 27:53 the resurrection of Jesus is referred to as egersis, “a rousing, a rising...

Why does the Book of Glory begin with the foot-washing? Because this is Jesus setting in drama what he will do on the cross for the disciples and all of us. He will wash us and make us a part of himself forever. Why is the long discourse of Jesus...

Jesus is Lord. This is participation in the Kingdom of God. If you want to give primary allegiance to some other kingdom, then Jesus is not Lord in you, and you are not seeing the Kingdom. Eliezer encountered the beautiful Rebekah at a well and...

God sent his Son “to save the world.” Have you ever noticed that before? God sent his Son to the world for the purpose of saving it. The whole world is in need of saving, as you can discern from any day’s newspaper. God’s Son came to save...

Brady, my seven-year-old grandson, wears his food wherever he goes. He goes to school looking like food graffiti. He puts on clean clothes in the morning, and he eats his breakfast, and he gets his eggs and syrup and milk on his pants and his shirt...

Some of you remember the story of Louis Zamperini chronicled in the book, “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand and retold again this week by Peggy Noonan. Zamperini ran for America in the 1936 Olympics. He joined the Army Air Corp after Pearl Harbor. He...