It is a strange thing indeed to sit down with someone who walks into church and is looking for assistance. I am not new to speaking with strangers or evaluating needs or truth, but this was in a prior “life”. Someone walks in, who I have given gift cards before and now wants money for … [Read more…]
Some of you may know, I am on internship now. Although I do not believe that the load is anyway too much, in fact it is light right now, but I manage to become still, that person distracted by shiny objects and such find ways to be busy. When this happens, I fail at … [Read more…]
Link to Audio Version Ecclesiastes 1:2 Ecclesiastes 1:12–14 Ecclesiastes 2:18–23 Psalm 49:1–12 Colossians 3:1–11 Luke 12:13–21 When the last Austin Powers movie was released there was a lot commercials and hype around the movie. Hearing or reading about it seemed unavoidable. One of Mike Meyers’ co-stars commented on what the actor was like as he … [Read more…]
Link to Audio Sermon Galatians 5:1 Galatians 5:13-25 1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. 13 You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; … [Read more…]
Audio Sermon Link Luke 8:26-39 It is all to easy to dismiss, with our scientific knowledge of today, that this man who approached Jesus in Gerasen as being just mentally ill. We can so easily justify that the lack of knowledge of the people of Jesus’s time, just did not understand mental illness and that … [Read more…]
Audio version of sermon Luke 7:36-8:3 I was speaking with a friend of mine this last week and he was telling me about a book that he had read that looks at the difference between sin and evil. The book is “People of the Lie”. The author is Dr. M. Scott Peck, a psychiatrist and … [Read more…]
Audio Version Galatians 1:11-17 11 For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man’s gospel. 12 For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. 13 For you have heard of my former life … [Read more…]
Follow this link for the audio version on this site. In our text today, you will hear about the encounter of Jesus, after His resurrection, with a man named Saul. His other name, which is not given because of his conversion but is another name that he goes by, is Paul. This may have been … [Read more…]
Audio Version Link This is from a five minute sermon that I was to preach. Although in general, I disagree with a five minute sermon length, there are times and places where this may be appropriate. The words of God through Zechariah are spoken to the peoples of Israel. These same words in verse 9 are … [Read more…]
Before I begin, I must advise you as the reader, that this will appear in a news letter for Wartburg Seminary. Although to keep it within the 500 word limit, it was edited somewhat. Below you will find the article in its entirety. I have also included the footnotes for this post, where it will not be … [Read more…]