Theme: Kings and kingdoms come and go, but you can’t kill this King.
     
In the madness of the morning, you may not have heard it.  In the kaleidoscope of craziness, you may not have heard the refrain.  In the midst of the circus and the carnival, you may not have heard those words repeated [...]

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 [...]

The other day, I was talking to two fathers in our congregation about their sons being in the military and the real prospect that their sons might die in the Iraq war.
I didn’t bring the topic up, both fathers did. And these fathers were contemplating what it would mean for them to sacrifice their sons [...]

If anyone would be my disciple, tet them deny themselves, take up their cross and follow me;  Whoever finds their life, loses it;  Whoever loses their life, finds it.What does it profit you, if you gain the whole world and lose your own soul?
This verse and its variations is found six times in the [...]

Many of us struggle with temptation.  It would be nice if the primary temptations of life had to do with cookies, Twinkies and ice-cream!  But the reality is that temptation and struggle are not with these, but with the gut issues of life such as pride, greed, lust gluttony, laziness, anger and envy.                                                                 [...]