sermons Blessed are Those Who Endure | Patience Series, Part 2 23 Jan 2022January 22, 2022 Some of you may know the infamous pickle story. During agriculture day for Leadership Dodge, I stood in Brian Watkins’ field of cucumbers, listening to him talk about farming. But…
sermons How Should We Wait? | Patience Sermon Series 16 Jan 2022January 12, 2022 How should we wait? Back in fourth grade, I could not wait for some new legos to come in the mail. I had saved my allowance and birthday money to…
sermons Come Home to God Today 2 Jan 2022December 16, 2021 Several months ago, I lost my wedding ring. We scoured the house and couldn’t find it. I tend to play with it while driving so we shone flashlights around the…
sermons Follow The Magi’s Example 26 Dec 2021December 24, 2021 Please note: this is the sermon that would have been given had the sound board been working at church. The devotional posted on our Facebook page is different. We hope…
sermons An Extraordinary Gift for Us Ordinary People 24 Dec 2021December 24, 2021 An extraordinary thing happening to ordinary people. If Mike Rowe’s show “Dirty Jobs” had existed on Galilean TV back in Mary and Joseph’s day, shepherds would have certainly been featured.…
sermons No Matter the Darkness, The Light Shines 5 Dec 2021December 2, 2021 12/5/21 | John 1:1-5 Manuscript Yet, in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting light. Phillips Brooks sat on horseback atop a hillside. This episcopal priest from New England had come…
Uncategorized A Thrill of Hope: Friendship 28 Nov 2021November 18, 2021 A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices. Christina Rossetti sat at her home. This English poet of moderate fame had published many poems before in her life, mostly focused…
Uncategorized Thanksgiving: His Steadfast Love Endures Forever 21 Nov 2021November 21, 2021 Find the prayer worksheet here! His steadfast love endures forever. Our first married Thanksgiving, we decided to host both of our parents. At the time, we lived in Virginia in…
sermons Remember and Emulate the Saints 7 Nov 2021November 4, 2021 In castle gift shops and cathedrals alike, I ran into many rosaries for sale. It was surprising to me to find these at castles. But there they were, among magnets…
sermons Finding Happiness 24 Oct 2021October 7, 2021 I love technology, especially Apple products. In our household, we have multiple iPhones, iPads, apple tvs, AirPods, a MacBook and an iMac. And I’m probably leaving something out. When Apple…
sermons What’s the Point? 10 Oct 2021October 6, 2021 Manuscript What’s the point? On November 21, we’ll celebrate here at church my favorite holiday of the year: Thanksgiving. I love it more than Christmas, more than Easter, more than…
Uncategorized Blessed to be a Blessing 3 Oct 2021September 30, 2021 Manuscript Every day, on the way out the door, Ms. Lila would stop me and say, “you know preacher, I was fed today. And I don’t mean food. I was…
sermons The Power of Empathy 26 Sep 2021September 21, 2021 I love James Madison University. For some of you, this will come as no shock at all. They’re my football team. The university is located in the beautiful Shenandoah valley,…
sermons We Don’t Know How to Know Things | Finding Wisdom Today 19 Sep 2021September 16, 2021 The street preacher yelled at us, “you’re going to hell! You’ll burn in the lake of fire!” It was February, 2019, and we were emerging from the convention center where…
sermons Count the Cost | Bitcoin and Proverbs 12 Sep 2021 El Salvador adopted bitcoin as legal tender on September 6, just a week ago. In doing so, they became the first country on earth to make bitcoin an official currency.…
sermons Politics Is Just a Fancy Word for Relationships 5 Sep 2021September 1, 2021 Greatness awaits. I enjoy video games. Used to play them all the time. When I was on a break from college, I mastered three games: Crazy Taxi, Splinter Cell, and…
sermons Relationship Over Rules 8 Aug 2021August 6, 2021 Back in May, in the normal course of my job duties, I found myself being chased by a bunch of wet two, three, and four year olds. They threw water…
Uncategorized A Little Witness Makes a Big Difference 1 Aug 2021July 29, 2021 And old monk once told this story about life in the desert with just a few fellow monks. For any of us who love coffee, for whom the expression, “but…
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