Sermons

Although we wish this world were a lot more like heaven it certainly is not. It is meant to be hard. Why? Because our hearts are hard. As long as life is “smooth” we will have no motivation or reason to face and admit our sin, our need of a new heart, and a new life. Only…

We’re not good when the “unexpected” comes crashing into our lives. We’re REALLY not good when TWO big unexpected boulders crash into our lives. God re-routes Hannah to the back roads of the Unexpected, circumstances you never imagined YOU’d ever have to go through.  Along the way, Hannah found JOY she never expected to find, and…

We usually attribute loneliness to the failures of someone else. However, before we ever draw that conclusion, there are two failures of our own that precipitate a greater loneliness than what anyone else’s failures can bring. God can use our damaged selves as of one of the routes to true joy!

All of us experience unmet longings. We then redouble our efforts to fill our emptiness and loneliness we sometimes feel. Our efforts and the results are very short-lived. Surprisingly, God does not seem to be cooperating to get the people in our lives to come through for us!  What is God doing? He’s re-routing us.…

Pursuing the world’s definition of joy is like riding on the interstate highway. We just naturally assume that’s the fastest and surest way to where we are going, that is, until we hit a sig alert or an ice storm that has caused the crashes of hundreds of cars. God defines “joy” differently than you and…

As we finish our study of King David, we will see the sin of the people and of David; we will see how Satan reacts, and how God deals with the whole mess, both in judgment and in mercy.