My life is frustrating… what is God doing about it? Everyone has that moment in life when we wonder, what is God doing? Why is life such a struggle? Why is my marriage/career/dream going nowhere? We feel like nothing is happening and God is doing nothing on our behalf. We feel frustrated. Tired. Defeated. If we aren’t careful, we begin to complain. We become negative. We blame people around us for our misery. If it wasn’t for my husband or . . . Read More »
What’s the Point of Easter?
We all have a common struggle in life. I call it a human problem because if you are human, you have this struggle. The human problem is that we are not in control. Over the years, I have done several funerals. In the service I address the reality that we don’t like death because it reminds us we aren’t in control. We can’t control life or death. We can’t control weather or cancer. Truth is, we struggle to . . . Read More »
Easter…Been there, done that.
Here is Sam’s portion of the Easter service this past Sunday…addressing church people. Easter is a big deal day as we celebrate what Jesus is doing in our lives but let’s face it…we’ve done this before right? Year after year, we clean up a little more…we get our daughters the nice Easter dress, we force the boys to wear a shirt they aren’t happy to be wearing. We know we will see a few more faces than normal . . . Read More »
How Do You Treat Those Who Hurt You?
You miss Jesus when you want His forgiveness and grace but refuse to give that to same forgiveness and grace to those who hurt you. Have you ever thought to yourself, why was Jesus executed? How did the people in Jesus’ day miss Him? How is that even possible? It seems so obvious to us that Jesus was the Son of God. The reality is that we can miss Jesus too. That’s what this series is about. There . . . Read More »
The Servant King
So we have been in a series where we are studying Jesus. We are doing this by asking this question; how in the world did the people of his time miss him? I mean seriously, how is that possible? Well it’s possible because of a couple of things. First and foremost they just could not grasp grace. They didn’t realize just how much God loved them, so they had no concept of just how far he was willing . . . Read More »