Valuing Local Church Investment in View of Global Evangelism Let’s call it the paralysis of empathy. It’s that feeling you get when, for example, you sit down to watch a show on TV and a commercial breaks in with the emaciated form of an impoverished child living in the slums...
This post is a follow-up message from Pastor Ben's sermon entitled "Battle-Ready". [Watch video]For years, I believed that Jesus died on the cross. But I also believed that if I was a good boy I’d make it to heaven. If I wasn’t, well then. I believed a distorted gospel. At the...
Our efforts as a church to create an “Easter Advent” paid off. Since Easter is the most important holiday for Christians, we devoted four weeks of preparation in order to give Easter its due, but also to focus on outreach. After all, the reason Jesus came and saved us was so...
This post is a follow-up message from Pastor Ben's sermon entitled "Save Now". [Watch video]Where was Satan during Holy week? When Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, Satan did not turn tail and run. During that week, I believe he marshaled all His demonic forces in an attempt to destroy the...
This post is a follow-up message from Caleb Klontz's sermon entitled "Lift Up Your Eyes!" [Watch video] “Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest?’ Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.”(John 4:35) “The harvest...
This post is a follow-up message from last week's Missions Sunday sermon entitled "The Heart of the Disciple". [Watch video]“And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death.” Revelation 12:11This past...
The story of Zaccheus is a well-known favorite, and certainly one of the most often told Sunday School stories. The liability here is that we think of it as just a Sunday School story. Then there’s the song: “Zaccheus was a wee little man and a wee little man was...
This post is a follow-up message from Pastor Ben's sermon entitled "Slaves & Masters, Part II". [Watch video]One of the fascinating things I learned while studying slavery the last few weeks was the place of Christianity during the Civil War. As a retired Navy Chaplain, I was interested to learn that during...
This post is a follow-up message from Pastor Ben's sermon entitled "Light, Dark & Shades of Gray". [Watch video]It really is quite simple. Christians are to be light in a world of darkness. One of our immediate thoughts is that this is about “witnessing.” Perhaps. We should always be looking for...