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Faithful to the Finish
Peter's final call to a young and growing church
Grace and Glory
A short series through the highlights of 1 Peter
Entrusted
Gifts, risk, and the return of the King
A Click and a Pop-Up Menu! (06.30.05--Direction--John 21:15-19 ) Just being in love is not enough especially when you are considering spending the rest of your life in that condition. Internet romance is on a real boom swing around the world. Only a few short years ago anyone who “dated” on ...read more
Scripture: John 21:15-19
Tags: Romantic Love
Denomination: Lutheran
In one of his first attempts to run for political office Lincoln was given $200 by the Whig Party to cover his election expenses. He won the election and then promptly returned all the money he had not spent on the election, $199.25. He explained, that he had traveled on his own horse, and stayed ...read more
Scripture: John 17:17-18
Tags: Christian Values
Denomination: Baptist
Just Passing Through! (09.16.05--Heavenly Citizens!--John 8:51) How disturbing it would be to take a trip and every time you came to a town or city you were compelled to stop and investigate every facet of where you were; to taste and see everything there was everywhere you went. So inclined you ...read more
Scripture: John 8:51
Tags: Soldier, Death
“What kind of clothes would GOD wear?” I like the answer one person gave, in the story of a man who was commissioned to paint a picture of the Prodigal Son. He went into his work fervently, laboring to produce a picture worthy of telling the story. Finally, the day came when the picture was ...read more
Scripture: John 6:27
Tags: Calvinism
Denomination: Methodist
The Gospel came to Hawaii during the period in American history called "The Second Great Awakening" (1785-1820). Henry Opukaha’ia was the first Hawaiian Christian. In the late 1700s his entire family was killed during a tribal war on the shores of Kealakakua Bay on the Big Island. As he fled from ...read more
Scripture: John 3:16
Tags: Evangelism Urgency, Evangelism How To
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
I end with a legend that I read in a book somewhere. After Jesus had resurrected and ascended to heaven, the angels welcomed Him with great honour and gathered around Him. They had all kind of questions about his death, resurrection and ascension. ‘What was it all about?’ they asked him. ‘The ...read more
Scripture: John 1:1-14
Tags: Sharing My Testimony, Evangelism Urgency
I was on my honeymoon in the Bahama’s when a man walked up to me and said, "Would you like to buy some cocaine? You can tell everyone how much you really enjoyed the Bahama’s." After I said "No!" and got over the shock of that man’s boldness, I wondered how Jesus would have responded if someone ...read more
Scripture: John 4:7-15
Tags: Evangelism, Evangelism How To, Evangelism Fear Of, Salvation, Witness (view more) (view less)
Denomination: Pentecostal
On Little Yellow Flower! (11.04.05--Faith That Flies!--John 6:18-19) Now is the time of year when most of the flowers in my wife’s flower beds have wilted and sagged. The frost has struck more than once, making even the hardier mums droop a bit. The time of blossoming has passed for most of the ...read more
Scripture: John 6:18-19
Tags: Faith General, Devoted, Doubt
Consider the story of Hans the tailor. Because of his reputation, an influential entrepreneur visiting the city ordered a tailor-made suit. But when he came to pick up his suit, the customer found that one sleeve twisted that way and the other this way; one shoulder bulged out and the caved in. He ...read more
Scripture: John 4:7-16
Tags: Misconceptions
History records for us an interesting footnote. It was during the dark winter of 1864. At Petersburg, Virginia, the Confederate army of Robert E. Lee faced the Union divisions of General Ulysses S. Grant. The war was now three and a half years old and the glorious charge had long since given way to ...read more
Scripture: John 1:1-13
Tags: Christmas Eve, Birth, Light, Wife
An old circuit riding preacher had finished his last meeting of the year before winter set in and made it impossible to travel across the hills of West Virginia. The church where he was leaving received an offering for him and wrapped it in a napkin. He sat on his horse and kindly thanked the ...read more
Scripture: John 14:1-6
Tags: Heaven
Mike Breaux, when he was the Sr. Pastor at Southland Christian Church in Lexington, KY, made this point in a dramatic fashion. On the day he was to preach on the very text we’re studying, from James 2, Mike dressed up as a destitute bag lady and entered the Church service just as it began. He was ...read more
Denomination: Christian Church
Easter is the truth that turns a church from a ...read more
Scripture: John 20:1-8
Tags: Run, Easter Resurrection
"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special ...read more
Tags: Giving General
"The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not ...read more
Scripture: John 4:35-38
Tags: Action, Success, Identity, Progress, Patience (view more) (view less)
"God is preparing His heroes; and when the opportunity comes, He can fit them ...read more
Scripture: John 1:20-23
Tags: Preparation
STANDING IN THE DOORWAY John Todd was born in Rutledge, Vermont, into a family of several children. They later moved to the village of Killingsworth back in the early 1800s. And, there, at a very young age, both John’s parents died. The relatives wondered what they would do with so many ...read more
Scripture: John 14:1-3
Tags: Death
ABUNDANT LIFE In December 1990, the threat of war with Iraq was looming. Many reserves and National Guard troops were mobilized. There were some homes where father and mother were both deployed. Recognizing this situation (that both father and mother would be gone overseas), a civic organization ...read more
Scripture: John 10:10
Tags: Joy
I WAS BLIND, BUT NOW I CAN SEE There were two boys who grew up together. They were close friends as children, but as they entered their teen years their paths began to diverge, and they ended up in very different places. Ernie was always in trouble. He began by shoplifting small things from stores ...read more
Scripture: John 9:25
Tags: Holy Spirit In Believers
WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH When Lawrence of Arabia was in Paris with some of his Arab friends after World War I, he took them to see the sights of the city. His friends showed little interest in the Louvre, the Arch of Triumph, or Napoleon’s tomb. The thing that really interested them was the ...read more
Scripture: John 4:23
Tags: Worship General
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