“Water Into Wine” is a sermon interpretation of John 2: 1-11.        
Ever since the world began, wine has been a favorite beverage for meals, parties, celebrations, and especially for weddings. Wine and wedding have gone hand in hand for centuries. The Bible says that wine is the oil of gladness; that wine brings [...]

“Looking for Logic” is a sermon starter for John 1: 1-18.
“In the beginning was the Word; the Word became flesh.”  The Greek word for Word is “logos” from which we get our word, logic.  “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God” is then translated:  [...]

“Rocky Road” is a sermon interpretation of John 6: 56-69.  There are rocks, stumbling blocks in the road of life that threaten us emotionally and spiritually. 
         
In Biblical times, people walked on dirt paths.   That is the way people traveled in those days and some still do today. [...]

Sermon notes for John 6:51-58.               
Usually in the church, when we think about and contemplate the meaning of the Last Supper, we think of Holy Thursday in the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke.  It was the Passover Meal.  There was unleavened bread and wine at the Jewish Passover. [...]

Theme:  “The Bread of Life” is a sermon interpretation of John 6: 24-35.                 I recently visited our grocery store and discovered that the row of bread in our grocery store is seven shelves high and forty-five feet long. This forty-five foot row of bread is divided as follows and I believe that this [...]

“Favorite Story” is a sermon interpretation of John 6:1-21.  We all have those old favorite stories that we share with our old favorite family and friends.  When you get together with certain family members or friends, the conversation will get around to an old favorite story which begins with,  “Do you remember that time when….”  [...]

“Nicodemus, Born of Water and Spirit” is a sermon interpretation of John 3: 1-17.  There are times when life gets a little stale, boring and empty, when you do the same things over and over and over again.  You go through the motions but that inner motivation is not there.      
It happens to us [...]

“Its a Wonderful World or a Dark, Messed Up World” is a sermon idea for John 17: 20-26, on 7th Sunday of Easter or Ascension Sunday.
          One of my favorite songs is entitled, “Its a Wonderful World.”  Whenever that song comes on the radio or the TV, I always smile inside, sit back, relax [...]

“Its So Simple” is a sermon interpretation of John 15: 9-17.  It is sooo simple.  Sometimes the answer to a complex question is simpler than we realize.         You’ve heard the saying:  “It is as plain as the nose on your face.” (Whenever this phrase is said during the sermon, the preacher always slowly [...]

“Loaded With Fruit” is a sermon from the scripture of John 15:1-8. This gospel lesson  is about fruit, lots of fruit.  The word, “fruit,” is used more often in John 15:1-8, than in any other place in the Bible.  The word “fruit” occurs six times in our text for today. Three times we hear about [...]

Theme:  the difference between doubters and nonbelievers.
    
On the one hand, we experience the grandest event in human history when god raised Jesus of Nazareth from the dead; and within that story of that exquisite event, we see the lurking of doubt in the shadows.
Doubting Thomas has a certain appeal to all of us [...]

Theme:  Retraction!  A mistake in the Obituary! 
                                    If Jesus would have had a funeral, and if there had been newspapers in those days, his obituary would have been listed in the Nazareth News, along with all the other obituaries, Section E, page seven. It would have been listed under the J’s e.g. [...]

Theme: a dying seed results in new life.
It seems just yesterday, but it wasn’t.  We went out on a family picnic.  We went out to one of these lovely state parks; and the water was so green, so blue green as it is around here on the high mountain streams.  The water came tumbling [...]

Today I would like to focus on a small, two-lettered word that is used very often.  it is a word that we often use to express intensity of feeling.  It is the word “so,” spelled S. O. It is not “sew” spelled S.E.W like sewing a button on a shirt. The word we are thinking [...]

When I moved to my first job, my first call on the West coast in Eugene, Oregon, I knew that we weren’t far from the Pacific Ocean. On the first day that I had off work, my wife, new little baby and I were going to go west and over to the coast and Pacific [...]