Are you leaving me too? On December 7th 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the people of the United States and referred to the previous day as “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy”.  Most of you know what he was referring to, on December 6th Japan had attacked Pearl Harbour.  There are other days…

Last Sunday was Father’s Day and I would imagine the phone lines were burning up as people were calling their dads. I phoned my dad and I got one phone call and a text from my kids.  And for those whose fathers are no longer with them they probably thought about conversations that they have…

I officially declare today the first day of summer, at least for 2013.  For no other reason than today I start my summer preaching series, which wouldn’t really work if it was still spring.  This summer our theme will be “A Red Letter Summer”  and if you are wondering what that means it’s really pretty…

How was high School for you?  I loved high school, well actually it was a weird time of life, on one hand I couldn’t wait to graduate so I could do whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted.   For me graduation signified freedom.   Wow, was I in for a nasty surprise.  If I had to pick…

Who is This Man?  3 If I was to ask you about the longest recorded conversation that Jesus had in the four gospels who would you say it involved?  His best friend, Peter?  John the Baptist?  The High Priests when they were interrogating him or Pilate during this trial?  Wrong on each account.  The longest…

It was John Lennon who said, “Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.”  And from what I hear when I talk to people and read what people have to say about Jesus that seems to be the common opinion.  Jesus was all…

Who is this Man?  Matthew 16:13-20 If you were to ask the average person “Who is Jesus?”  I am sure that you would get a bunch of different answers.  Some would say that he was the Son of God; other’s might say that he was a prophet or a religious leader.  Some might even say…

It is a familiar story and one that fits with Mother’s Day.  A woman who wasn’t supposed to be a mother becomes a mother.   It is one of the most familiar stories in the Bible but a story that is over shadowed by another story and gets lost.  We are all familiar with the first…

When I was a teen if you gave a kid a guitar eventually they would learn to play Stairway to Heaven.  Not always well, but it was like the chopsticks of the guitar. That and Smoke on the Water and Cat Scratch Fever.  I’m not sure that either the stairway or the heaven that inspired…

I learned two things this week that I didn’t know before.  Even though I am not a sports fan I am aware that Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play professional baseball in the Major Leagues in the States.   And I even knew that before they started promoting the movie “42”.   What I…