“Nothing But Fire Kindles Fire” is a Pentecost sermon interpretation of Acts 2: 1- 21.
       Some years ago, I discovered and learned three favorite quotations from theologians of a generation ago  (Brooks, Fosdick and Spurgeon), and these three quotations penetrate the heart of Pentecost. The first quotation is this: “Nothing but fire kindles [...]

The magnificent scenery and rock formations in the Southwest are metaphors for the troubles we often encounter in life.  When we feel alienated, lost a dear loved one, feel like a miserable failure, when the valley or canyon of grief threatens to swallow us up, the scriptures proclaim,”that nothing in life or death can [...]

Theme:  The Holy Spirit, poured out on the church, opens pathways of communication, enabling the Gospel to break through the multiple barriers to our hearing. Barriers are also broken down to enable us to to communicate with one another and with God.
A lot of the big church fights of the last thirty years or [...]