Category: Jesus
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Preparing for Easter
If you don’t preach, you might be surprised to learn that writing sermons for Easter and Christmas Eve are very difficult. Why? Everybody already knows the stories. Even if you’ve never walked into a church before, Easter and Christmas are still likely to be stories you have some degree of…
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Remember your baptism?
Remembering your baptism isn’t about remembering the event. Remembering your baptism is remembering who you are as a member of God’s family, as a member of the Church, and as a citizen of God’s kingdom. Remembering your baptism is remembering you’ve been spiritually changed. Remembering your baptism is remembering you’ve…
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Q&A
I’m spending this week at the Warren W. Willis United Methodist Youth Camp, in Fruitland Park, Florida, as the Senior High pastor. I didn’t attend this camp as a camper. But, I’ve been coming to this camp as an adult volunteer (primarily as the Senior High pastor) for one week…
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A Strange Saturday…
I woke up this morning, feeling relieved. It has been a busy, hectic Holy Week. My church had three different services – one on Maundy Thursday, and two on Good Friday – each requiring a different sermon. Beyond the sermons, there were also numerous other details of the worship services…
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“Mountains of Books” – a Second Good Friday Sermon, Preached on April 14th, 2017, in the Evening at First Church of Coral Springs
Revelation 20 says that there are books in heaven that contain the records of everything that every human has ever said or done. Imagine that. A book that contains every sin you have ever committed. Every evil thought. Every unkind word. Every selfishness. Every disobedience. Every unfaithfulness. Every missed opportunity…
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“Into your hands I commit my spirit” – A Good Friday Sermon Preached on April 14, 2017 at First Church of Coral Springs
Undeniably, the ordeal Jesus endured was horrific. Starting with an arrest; then a long night without sleep – full of hate, ugliness, condemnation and abuse; dragged from the Temple to Pilate, to Herod, and then back to Pilate; abuse and mockery at the hands of cruel Roman soldiers; rejection from…
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