We become accustomed to our condition, having no hope that anything will ever be better. We often think money is the answer, but it’s usually not the answer. This week’s sermon took a look at the crippled beggar who waited by the gate called Beautiful for people to throw him their change. 1 One day …
Too Good To Keep To Yourself
Paul knew that the news he’d received by divine intervention was too good to keep to himself! He began immediately spreading the word to the Gentiles that this Jesus character was actually the Son of God. 16 To reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, my immediate response …
Blessed Are The Peacemakers
When I started writing my Sunday blog posts, it was just about what I got out of the sermon. You know, what I understood the main point was. But, I’ve seen a change in the way I write. I spend more time in preparing, going over notes and reading over the scriptures provided to make …
Satan Smells Like Charcoal and Sounds Like A Rooster
On the night Peter betrayed Christ, he stood around a charcoal fire. It's not hard to imagine that as Peter reaches shore, his senses were flooded with his past. (As dawn broke there was probably a rooster or two crowing in the background.) - Taken from Jon Porter's sermon 5/10/2020 I'm going to go ahead …
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Psalms & Pandemics
The next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna!" John 12:12 Listening to the sermon this morning, I tried to imagine the excitement in the air with the news that Jesus …
Bringing Life Into Focus
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” Today is a new day and I'm looking through my lens with new perspective. Yesterday was a really rough day. Well, to be honest, it's been a rough week for most everybody on the planet. But today, I'm looking at things more …
Can I Get a Witness?
Did you ever think about your purpose on earth? I'm sure that we each see our purpose differently, but why did God create us in the first place? What is it that we are supposed to do? At the beginning of the book of John, he is describing the light shining in the darkness and …