These Three Remain, 1 Corinthians 13

You are probably familiar with 1 Corinthians Chapter 13, most people are whether they’re aware of that fact or not. If you walked up to someone on the street and said “what’s 1 Corinthians 13,” they might not get it but if you said “Love is…” they could probably give you “patient, love is kind….” …

Picked Out of the Crowd

First things first, who remembers the memory verse from last week? “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you.” Great job. I’ll get back to you on the prize. If you didn’t have it this week there’s still time, write it down in your bulletin and you can be sure to have …

Rolling on the River

The theme of this year’s VBS is “Rolling River Rampage,” which seems like a direct attack on my speech impediment. As an 8 year old trying to say those three words would have sent me into a coma. But as you might be able to guess from that and from the picture here the curriculum …

Believe and Speak

There’s an episode in the final season of How I Met Your Mother where Ted, the main character, and his wife are at dinner and over the course of their conversation they realize that they have run out of things to say to each other. Every story he starts she already knows the end of, …

“Legacy”

Andrew is the best disciple. I think we would all agree on that, no need for further evaluation, I mean even the most biblically illiterate of us recognize the name right? We think about all the books of the bible he wrote…(0). Ok, bad example, realistically though not that many disciples wrote books or letters …

“A Song from the Pit,” Psalm 43

Songs of the summer are supposed to be fun, right? That’s the whole idea, it’s a song that gets us excited for the season, something that makes us feel good when we hear it on the boat or during the cookout, a song that is supposed put a smile on our faces. The Psalms we’re …

“A Story of Hell,” Luke 16: 19-31

Penn Jillette, who you might know as half of the magicians act Penn and Teller, is an atheist. At some point he was being interviewed about his faith (or lack thereof) and he told a story about being on a plane once and having a man come up to him and hand him a copy …

“The Power of One,” John 1: 45-46, Matthew 13: 45-46

  James Holzhauer, current Jeopardy champion, has won 26 straight games and has earned almost $2 million, and depending on who you listen to he is ruining Jeopardy. How’s he doing this? He answers, this is going to blow your mind, he answers the questions that are worth more money first. If you’ve watched Jeopardy, …

“Stepping Off the Sideline,” Luke 5: 17-26

So last week we introduced an issue: the final command or direction of Jesus is for his followers to go and to make disciples, and most of us don’t do it. 8% of Americans have at least one spiritual conversation a week, 15% once a month, three-fourths of Americans who call themselves Christians have fewer …

“Answering the Call,” Matthew 4: 18-22 and Genesis 12: 1-4

Who’s your one? SBC President J.D Greear raised this question in December: who is one person in your orbit that is far from God? One person who needs the new life that comes from knowing and accepting Jesus Christ? He followed the question up with a challenge: what are you going to do about it? …