Leviticus – The Nexus

Only two more installments in our series, Being Useful, after this one. In this seventh part, we are reaching a point that the qualities on Peter’s list are both the next natural addition as well as the result of the previous additions. What does it look like when we pursue faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, and endurance on a consistent, intentional basis? We begin to fulfill the duty we owe to God. A duty to God? For what? Keep reading to find out more.

Return the Favor

Just out of curiosity this morning, how many of you have both been called and actually served for jury duty? Thank you for that. We don’t often thank jurors, but they contribute a vitally important service to our nation’s judicial system. As much of a headache as this particular service is seen to be—much more of a burden than a blessing—it has kept our court system its distinction as one of the best and fairest in the world for the accused for almost 250 years. That’s not a small thing.

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This past Sunday morning we continued our series, Bible Stories to Make You Squirm, with what I think is about the hardest story in the whole of the Scriptures. I didn’t want to write this sermon. But if all Scripture is God-breathed, then we need to be able to deal with this part of it too. Check out what makes it so hard and what we should do with it below. Thanks for reading.

Strange Fire

I didn’t want to write this sermon. Can I say that out loud? I didn’t want to write this sermon. Have you ever felt that way? I mean, probably not about a sermon, but maybe about something else you’ve done. You did it. You had to do it. It needed to be done. But you didn’t want to do it. Maybe you were helping somebody out and you knew it was going to wind up being a lot of effort for you for a little gratitude from them. Perhaps you were given some task at work that you knew was just not going to be a pleasant undertaking—and you were right, by the way—but the boss asked for it and you were stuck with it. You may have experienced this kind of feeling in yet some other way. I don’t know what your experience was. All I know is that I didn’t want to write this sermon.

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