What Christmas Love Always Does

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Every year at Christmastime, news stations run video segments of crazy shoppers pushing and shoving each other to get their hands on the ...

Beholding the King

Introduction

This past week, I was looking at my calendar to see what events I could look forward to for the rest of the year. As I was looking at the ...

Follow the Leader

Introduction

A church fails for one of two reasons.

The first reason is poor leadership—the failure of those whom God has called to lead, to lead well, ...

The Heart of a Servant

Introduction

We're in the final week of a series called Fuel for the Soul. We've been talking about things you can do to turbo-charge your spiritual life—to ...

Humble and Proud of It

Introduction

Bob Hope tells this story: "I got a call from a fellow who said I'd been named Man of the Year by his organization because I was an ...

Follow Me

Introduction

The slogan used by the United States Marine Corps says, "We are looking for a few good men." Today they add, "...and women." ...

How We Can Be a Holy Church

In response to the religious leaders challenging Jesus' authority, he told them three parables. Last time we looked at the parable of the two sons; ...

Finding Significance in Obscurity

I would expect 99 percent of the people in our society feel very obscure; the kind of feeling that whatever I do doesn't really matter. Nobody ...