July 26, 2024
July 26, 2024 When Jesus Calls An old folk singer once told a story of a friend who was a Navy SEAL. The SEAL and his team were performing a…
July 26, 2024
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Friday Focus Archive
July 19, 2024
July 19, 2024 “Holiness is Not an Option” “PURSUE peace with everyone and HOLINESS, WITHOUT WHICH NO ONE WILL SEE THE LORD.” Hebrews 12:14 Wow! I hope you will join…
July 19, 2024
July 12, 2024
July 12, 2024 “The Holiness of God” Consider for a moment the sun and a light bulb. If held at the same distance, the sun is estimated to put out…
July 12, 2024
July 5, 2024
July 5, 2024 Pursuing Holiness What do you think of when you hear the word “holiness?” Some think of women with long hair pulled up in a bun, long skirts,…
July 5, 2024
June 21, 2024
June 21, 2024 Where Does God want to Move in Your Life? Don’t you just love family travelling songs? When our kids were younger, we’d sing songs like Old MacDonald…
June 21, 2024
June 14, 2024
June 14, 2024 Living the Good Life” What does it mean to live the good life? Ask the people of this world and you’ll get all kinds of answers. Some…
June 14, 2024
June 7, 2024
June 7, 2024 I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. If it were…
June 7, 2024
May 31, 2024
May 31, 2024 A Question of Perspective On Sunday we’ll continue our series, God’s Songbook, as we turn our attention to Psalm 73. Psalm 73 was written by a man…
May 31, 2024
May 24, 2024
May 24, 2024 Psalm 42 Spiritual Depression: The Cause & Cure Biographical books and records of history speak of the story of a young Midwestern lawyer who suffered from such…
May 24, 2024
May 17, 2024
May 17, 2024 “I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall always be in my mouth.” Most of the time when we use the word “bless”…
May 17, 2024
May 10, 2024
May 10, 2024 “Psalm One: Part 2” We got off to a great start last week with our new sermon series, “God’s Songbook.” I’ve never met anyone who didn’t like…
May 10, 2024
May 3, 2024
May 3, 2024 “God’s Songbook” I love the psalms. They contain just about every emotion known to humanity. That’s why in times of joy they give me language and voice…
May 3, 2024
April 26, 2024
April 26, 2024 Movies, TV shows, commercials, and books contain some famous and funny questions. In Star Wars, there a climactic moment when Luke Skywalker asks Yoda, “Is Darth Vader…
April 26, 2024
April 19, 2024
April 19, 2024 “Do You Want To Be Made Well?” This is the question that Jesus posed to the man lying by the pool of Bethesda (John 5:6). I want…
April 19, 2024
April 12, 2024
April 12, 2024 “Do You Have A Right to be Angry?” Jonah 4:1-11 Anger is an interesting thing. On May 15, 1894, the Baltimore Orioles came to Boston to play…
April 12, 2024