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The gospel is unstoppable. Throughout history, tyrants, nations, evil people, and Satan have tried to stop the gospel message. They have failed. They will fail. On the first day of the church, a barrier existed, and God showed the disciples, and thousands of people in Jerusalem that His gospel would not be stopped. Sometimes, Christians see barriers to the gospel. Maybe yo...

Have you ever been mesmerized by an event? I think about watching fireworks; seeing a shuttle launch; not being able to "look away" from an auto accident or some crazy video on the internet. There are certain events that grab our attention and it's hard for us to pull ourselves away from them. I imagine the disciples feeling this way as Jesus ascended into heaven after dec...

Have you considered lately the type of people God uses to accomplish His purposes? The twelve disciples certainly weren't the religious "cream of the crop" and yet they launched the church and spread the gospel to the world. King David was too young to fight and Abraham was too old. Jeremiah lived in depression and Noah was a drunkard. Paul and Moses were murderers and Laz...

Since school starts in just a few days, have you ever been unprepared for a quiz or test? You knew it was coming, but didn't bother to prepare. You may have even thought you were smart enough to "do okay" without studying. Sometimes, your plan works out okay, but sometimes it doesn't and you reap the consequences of being unprepared. The best you can hope for is the teache...

Have you ever lost something and searched high and low for it? Back when the boys were young, Brandie lost one of her favorite bracelets while we were on a trip and we looked everywhere for it. It was gone. Upon arriving home, we were unpacking the car seat from it's travel bag and what was at the bottom of the bag her bracelet! We couldn't believe it. We had stopped searc...

Keeping secrets is hard and it is bad for your health. Psychologists have studied people who had keep secrets and found that when a person is trying to hide something, he or she thinks about that thing far more than other issues in their life and their happiness suffered because of it. This is a great truth to set us free. The book of Zephaniah is a great guide for us as w...

Tests! As a child, I always hated "fill in the blank" tests because they required the most study. The blank always represented the unknown, especially with a lack of study. This Sunday we will look at Jesus' final prayer from the cross: "Into your hands I commit my spirit." After He uttered these words, His head dropped in death. It was finished, accomplished, completed. W...

Have you thought something wasn't "big enough" to pray about? Or, maybe it was "too big" to pray about? Either way, God wouldn't answer you. As we look at the Scripture, God is clear that we are to pray for all things. He calls us to praise and adore Him; intercede for others; confess our sin; bring our concerns to Him; and listen to Him. In the book of James, we see a sho...

From 2001-2009 I had the privilege of officiating nearly 70 wedding ceremonies, including a couple from our church. In nearly half of those weddings I challenged couples to live out the prayer that Jesus prays for all of his followers that they would be united, living in harmony. Before marriage, the idea of unity and harmony sound easy enough, but the reality is, asking ...

In May 2001, journalist Giles Brandeth interviewed South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu who was suffering from cancer. What might Tutu want to talk about? Perhaps the amazing transformation in the politics of his country, and of which he himself had a leading role. No. Here's what he told Brandeth: "If this is going to be my last interview, I am glad we are not g...