At Jericho there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was the chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but being a short man he could not, because of the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him Luke 19.2-4 We are in the third […]
Category: Scripture
Today we are in the second week of our current series all about getting life in order by setting priorities. Let me just be honest and up front and go ahead and admit that I’m good at this. Its not boasting to acknowledge you’re good at something, and I am definitely good at setting […]
Today we start a new series all about getting life in order, by establishing the correct priorities. It’s a topic that is of great interest to me, so I am really looking forward to this series. Jesus gives us some simple, solid advice on the subject: Seek first the kingdom of God and all these things will […]
We are already in the fourth week of our series on anger, and I’ve heard a lot of people talking about it. A woman stopped me in Starbucks and started talking about it, and another person joined in too. A young man was telling me his mother sat him down to have a long conversation […]
Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger and give the devil a foothold. Ephesians 4.26 These days we are discussing anger. Anger is a part of our world and we all have to deal with it, unpleasant as that can be, but probably no one has […]
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of time…” So Charles Dickens famously begins his epic novel, A Tale of Two Cities. I kept thinking of that quote these past few weeks as my travels took me not to two cities but rather two islands: the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean and […]
This week I was in Atlanta for a conference at North Point Church , led by Pastor Andy Stanley. I traveled with a few of our staff, including Lisa Scata our Children’s Director, and Brian Crook our Weekend Director, who had never been there before.We have never made a secret of our eagerness to learn from […]
This is the last week for our current series, Dangerous Church, looking at the Acts of the Apostles. And this is one more installment looking at some of the leadership lessons the Acts of the Apostles has to teach us. When last we left the story, Paul is preaching in a city called Antioch and things […]
We’ve been looking at Acts and challenging the whole Church to read through the whole book. Besides being an indespensible source of early church history it is also a rich source of leadership lessons. We’re going to look at another one from chapter 13. Paul is in Antioch and goes into the synagogue, because that’s […]
We are challenging our whole parish to read through the Acts of the Apostles this Easter season. Acts is the story of the first Easter season, the weeks and months that followed the resurrection, as well as the first 30 years of the church. It is a story that helps us understand the principles that […]
