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This Sunday, we will return to the sermon series on the twelve disciples that Pastor Steve started earlier this summer. We will focus on the disciple Thomas. His struggle to believe that Jesus had truly risen from the dead has given him the lasting moniker of...

Do have a problem with “ignorality?”  It is a common condition that many people are afflicted with, and do not even know it.  In Sunday’s sermon I describe what ignorality is, and tell you how to diagnose it in yourself, and cure it if you have it. Join us for worship...

If you have ever been called to do a task that you didn’t hasten to undertake, you can put yourself in the company of a number of Biblical characters. Think Abraham, Noah, Jonah, Moses, people in the Bible who questioned, stalled, agonized… and then followed the...

Colonel George Washington Goethals was the man responsible for the completion of the Panama Canal.  He encountered big problems with the climate and the geography of Central America – incessant rains, oppressive heat, and deadly disease. But his biggest challenge was...

Probably the most famous verse in the Bible is John 3:16.  “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son …” Aren’t you glad the verse does not read: “For God so loved the famous … or the popular?” Or, “For God so loved the rich?” Or, “the thin … the...

This week in our series on the disciples we come to the Apostle James. Just like the names of some other disciples, there are several people named “James” in the Bible. The James who wrote the New Testament book of James was likely Jesus’ older brother, and probably...

As we make our way through a study of the disciples, we see that Jesus gathered a ragtag group who were not exactly the cream of the crop or on the list of “Who’s Who in Judea.”  But Jesus invested his life into these disciples who, somehow, turned the world upside...

Last week we heard how Peter was an impulsive, bold and courageous fisherman who acted first and thought later. Peter meant well and gave it his all, but in the end, made many blunders. The most serious was when he denied he was one of Jesus’ followers three times....

A humorous and slightly scandalous but true story comes out of the early days of the church. When the father of Origen, a third-century theologian, was arrested for being a Christian, Origen, then only 17 years of age, desired to follow his dad into glorious...