God’s Only Option
The book of Jonah is a story about God’s grace and our struggle with God’s grace. As the story begins, Jonah is called by God to go to Nineveh to “cry out against it because...
Spirituality: Creating Space for God Within Us
After Ehud had died, the Israelites again did things that the Lord saw as evil. So the Lord gave them over to King Jabin of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, and he was...
Fathers: How Good Men Change The World
There is a special relationship between mother and child. (I know…kinda a weird way to start out a Father’s Day message. Just bear with me!) Our mother is our first home. She’s the first source...
Spiritual Growth: Laws Are Meant To Change
What is a law? This may seem like a simple question. But it’s actually a little more complex than it appears. Google’s dictionary define law in this way: A system of rules that a particular...
The Ripple Effect: How One Drop Changes Everything
One early evening on a lonely country road, an old man was standing on a bridge, high above a deep river. He had just dropped a pebble over the railing to see how long it...
Belong: Why Me Means We
You and I are dirt creatures. Scripture describes us as dirt sculptures made alive by the spirit of God. The Lord God formed the human (ha-adam) from the dust of the ground (ha-adamah), and breathed...
Dumbfounded: God did what? …for who?
I am dumbfounded. And it’s because of my kids. You know how kids…especially siblings…play together, right? Sometimes they play like they really love one another. And sometimes they play like they hate each other. Most...
A Sheepish Relationship
We have several unique pieces of art in the sanctuary at Hood Memorial Christian Church. And today, on Good Shepherd Sunday, I want to point out to you the Good Shepherd window. Many sermons and...
Joined at the Vine – The Practice of Connecting to the Source of Life
Sometimes at the most tragic moments of life, we need something fun, something funny, something entertaining to pull us back from the dead and dying into the life we are living. So, I have figure...
