Category: Sermon Thoughts

  • Downloading the Praise App – Ideas for integrating praise in your life

    Started our new series on prayer this past Sunday.  We are calling the series iPray as we look at different apps of prayer that we should download into our lives.   During the series we are looking at models of these prayers in the book of Psalms.  The first app we studies was praise, or adoring…

  • Rob Bell, Hell, and the danger of losing our theological soul

    The belief in hell is absolutely one of the most difficult beliefs for American Christians to rationalize and defend.  In a culture that looks for the soft fluffy God who will never judge but only loves people, no matter what they have done or what they believe, this doctrine puts Bible-believing followers in Jesus is…

  • Satan and Demons – Spiritual Warfare and gaining victory

    This is the final blog answering some questions raised in the sermon a couple weeks ago as we looked at a demon-possessed man.  The final installment here will look at the things the Bible says about spiritual warfare and our source of victory. The first issue though, is to know the reality that victory is…

  • Mark, The Messianic Secret, and Jesus Identity

    Wanted to clear up a theological issue in the Gospel of Mark which time in the service each week doesn’t really allow me to tackle.  One of the curious things that keeps happening in Mark involves Jesus commands directed at people whom he healed and served to keep quiet about Jesus work and identity.  He…

  • Satan and Demons – Their Tactics

    “Where God is on one side, you may be sure to find the devil on the other.” William Gurnall, 1655 This is the second post on the topic on the Biblical topic of  Satan and demons.  This post will look at the tactics and goals Satan uses against us.  In the last post we looked…