Introduction Has your December 2025 been marked more by suffering or celebration? By worry or tranquility? By anxiety or peace? Each year as we prepare for Advent, our thought turn to 4 words [Hope, Love, Joy, and Peace]. But these often describe aspiration more than experience. Would you be surprised…

Introduction As we prepare our hearts to worship Christ in His first coming and engage in witness looking toward His second coming, Last week we saw that the Advent of Jesus gives us Hope that the deceiving Serpent will be crushed. This week we focus on God’s affection towards the offspring of Eve and…

The Serpent's curse is immediate, but Satan's crushing is completed in the Christ event.

Introduction Last weekend our High School produced the musical Annie. One scene portrayed the Fireside Chats when families would gather around a radio to learn what was happening around the world. CNN changed all that when the first Iraq War was brought into our living rooms as it was happening. Now…

Introduction Tuesday and Wednesday of this week Chase County experienced a phenom that is not normal. I noticed several of you posted on Social media pictures of the red and green hues in our sky. I’ve yet to learn any proposed significance to these lights the fact that the aurora borealis was observed…

Godly wisdom offers a prepared and lavish feast in contrast to earthly basic subsistence.

Choice is older than creation; Our best choice always conforms to Christ [wisdom embodied].

Satan and his minions are not passive in temptation; Believers must consciously walk in the victory of Christ.

Solomon gives advice that leads to success with others and peace with self.

Introduction I appreciate music of many styles. I like Jazz, Rock Ballads, Baroque period classical, Marches, Choral, New Age, CCM and Traditional American Hymns. I even somewhat appreciate country western unless it has a fiddle AND steel guitar that gets a little twangy. However, I don’t appreciate…

Eulogy In the next few minutes, I'd like to take us on a journey. Not a journey to the cemetery where bodies await resurrection, not a journey to Carols little home in Strong City where so many children experience love and care,. But a journey to a supernatural place where Jesus offers hope for something…

Introduction: good intentions “The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions” is a quote that I traced back at least to a sermon by John Wesley in 1741. A couple of dictionaries I found explain this aphorism as “ individuals may have the intention to undertake good actions but nevertheless fail to take…

Intro Correcting a misconception People have faith in a lot of different objects and several concepts of God. Some think of God as a cosmic bookkeeper who tracts every single thought and action and on earth rewards or punishes each action. Others think of God more like a Genie whom one turns to in order…

God rewards those who desire wisdom with defense and deliverance adn ensures their destiny.

How many of you are aware of “The Correction Sandwich”? It is a technique employed to “help the medicine go down.” The idea is that anything corrective is better received if served between 2 compliments. Any pet owner who has ever hidden a pill in peanut butter, bacon or ground beef knows this idea.…

The safest and happiest place in life is in full union with the God of the Bible, regardless of distractions.

When each disciple contributes (rather than divides) the Gospel spreads.

Through Paul's biography we can find mission for our lives.