At the end of Sunday’s sermon, the one about Jesus cleansing a leper, I referred to my tenth grade yearbook picture. Several people have asked to see it, and although it pains me to post it (I’ve saved it under the file name “Yikes!”) here it is, along with the last few paragraphs of the [...]
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Copernican Revolution
Posted in Church, Sermons, tagged banned, book, Carole King, Church, conversion, Copernicus, earth, move, Nicholas, orbit, revolution, sun on March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
These were my closing comments on Sunday, February 20, at the end of our DiscipleNow event for youth. The theme of the the weekend was “Center Stage,” and raised the question of how your life might be different if Christ–and not you–occupied center stage. It reminded me of an illustration I’ve used for a while [...]
Death Is Only a Horizon
Posted in Church, Sermons, tagged cruise, death is only a horizon, Eleanor Wiley, funeral, Jim Somerville, life is eternal, love is immortal, Rossiter Raymond, ship, tiptoe, waving on October 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I did a funeral today for a lovely lady named Eleanor Wiley. In my remarks I quoted an old poem by Rossiter Raymond that says: We give them back to Thee, dear Lord, who gavest them to us; yet as Thou dost not lose them in giving, so we have not lost them by their [...]
Marriage, Death, Resurrection, Reunion
Posted in Family, Sermons, tagged Bible, biblical, Bush, death, Family, heaven, Jesus, love, marriage, Moses, resurrection, reunion, Sadducees, values, weddings on January 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I was out at Lakewood Manor this afternoon, preaching a sermon called “Will We Meet on That Beautiful Shore?” It was a sermon inspired by a conversation I once had with a man who had been told that he wouldn’t know his deceased wife in heaven, and the “proof” he was given was a passage [...]
