Text: Philippians 3:4-15 | Listen to Message How Do You Feel About Change? Some change is inevitable and even unpreventable. You’re going to get older, the weather’s going to turn warmer next Spring, and the cutting edge inventions of today will be obsolete in a few short years. These and millions of other changes are going to happen whether you like it or not. But what about the kind of changes that you can control? Are you the kind of person who likes change just for the sake of change? Or are you resistant to change? Are you guilty...
Text: Psalm 132 | Listen to Message Coming Home In his book Rediscovering Jesus, British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge wrote, “The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves to be at home here on earth.” These sobering words remind us that we are never more than mere aliens or strangers here. However, if we are only aliens and strangers here, it follows that there is a place in which we are not aliens and strangers – a place that we can truly call home. John 14:1-4 affirms that Jesus has built...
Text: Psalm 126 | Listen To Message I Just Want to Be Happy The French mathematician Blaise Pascal once wrote, “All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end…. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.” (Pensees, VII, “Morality And Doctrine,” #425) Whether you agree with Pascal’s superlatives or not, surely you agree that everyone wants to be happy. Oddly enough, some Christians react as if this desire is a bad thing. And so they make statements like this: “God wants...
Text: The Psalms of Ascent | Listen to Message Fighting for Hope in the Midst of Despair We live in a broken and grief-filled world. Even as I sat down to write this week’s message, the news broke that 14 people had been killed by gunfire at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California. And so it goes, day after day, week after week, month after month. We continually experience pain that causes us to ask, “Where is God? And why isn’t He doing something to stop this madness?” We want to believe that someday things will be different,...
