What Would Jesus Pray For? (John 17:1-21) [John #56] ATTN: Do you ever play mental games with yourself? Sometimes I will entertain myself with some imaginary scenarios. For example, if God told me that I can ask anything I want from Him and He will give it to me, what would I ask? God did […]
The Holy Spirit – Who is He and what does He do? (John 16:7-16) [John #55] ATTN: One of my professor started a class by asking “How is God made real in every age?” The Israelites during Moses’ period knew that God was real because they literally saw God leading them thru pillars of fire […]
Our Connection point and legacy Introduction: Keeping connected 2 Corinthians 10:12-But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding. -I believe the demands from the stress of life and evil within it, is to provoke us to seek our unique purpose in relationship with God, and […]
For Your Joy In Your Suffering 10 20 19 (Topical) ATTN: I’ve been a pastor for over 20 years, and one of the most frequent questions I get is, “If God loves us, then why is He letting us suffer?” I remember a while ago, a young lady in my youth ministry pouring her heart […]
For Your Joy! (10/12/19 Topical) ATTN: Some of you know that I ran a marathon last week. By God’s grace, I did finish. I didn’t quite hit my goal but I came close. Now, I didn’t just get up and ran a marathon. I have been training more seriously for about 6 months, running 3 […]
Living for Jesus vs. desired results Introduction: What do you have in mind? John 7:23-24–If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man’s whole body well? -Jesus heals a man on the Sabbath, […]
What does it mean to believe in God? V (9/29/19 Standalone Message) ATTN: Have you thought of Sunday worship this way? What you and I do every Sunday is either the most irrelevant, snake-oil-like, complete waste of time or it is the most relevant, helpful, and life-enriching thing. It all depends on whether you believe […]
Ruth – An unlikely love story (Topical) ATTN: Last Saturday, I got these pictures from Dara…. As I was praising God for His faithfulness at providing a husband for our Dara, I thought of the story of Ruth in the Bible. How God was so faithful in providing for an immigrant named Ruth in the […]
Kingdom economics (9/15/19 Topical) ATTN: when I was a young man – 17, 18 years old – my pastor told me that whatever we do for God in secret will become our reward in heaven. And I took it to heart. I wanted lots of reward in heaven, and so I started doing a bunch […]
O How He Love…! (9/8/19 Family Service) ATTN: Many years ago, as a youth pastor, I used to take a youth mission team down to Southern California every summer to visit churches and homeless shelters and perform songs, skits, and testimonies. One of the skits was the prodigal son story re-enacted in a modern setting. […]