Category: Sermon Thoughts

  • From skepticism to faith – Lee Strobel’s story

    The challenge for us in the series, Doubting your Doubts involves being honest with our faith presuppositions.  Whether you have been a Christian all your life, are in seek mode, or are a skeptic, you come to issues of faith with assumptions that often form your faith responses.  The goal is to examine those closely,…

  • Why a series on doubt?

    This Sunday we begin a new series of messages that we are titling Doubting your Doubts.  The series will be based on the book The Reason for God by Tim Keller.  We chose to do this series because question and doubt are a normal part of the spiritual journey.  Life is complex and complicated, and…

  • Ideas for preparing children for freedom – Join the conversation

    In the message yesterday I shared five ideas from our lives that we believe will help prepare kids for the times when they gain freedom.  The hope is that they will love Jesus, learn to live under His authority and the authority of God’s Word, and that they will pursue God’s will and His call…

  • Family Project for week 3 of parenting series

    Here is the project for the third week of the On Target Parenting series.  This should be a fun mission project for your family to help House of Hope.  Enjoy. Family Activity – Week 3

  • Proverbs on children and parenting

    The Old Testament book of Proverbs is full of practical wisdom on a multiplicity of topics.  Much of this wisdom literature reads as a conversation between a father and his son as he addresses life issues and the need for wisdom.  Other passages in Proverbs speak to parents encouraging them to demonstrate love to their…