My kids have recently discovered the old Looney Tunes cartoons. Many of you will remember those cartoons, and their characters: Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, Elmer Fudd, the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote, etc. Though there were always different episodes, and if you remember those old shows, you know that there was essentially one storyline…
Acts 1:12-26 Prayer and choosing a twelfth apostle
Praying and Choosing Matthias Last week we began our study of the Book of Acts, which is the historical account of the early church. In this time when we as a church are very deliberately fixing our attention on the person of Jesus, Acts shows us what happens when a community of people is fired…
Acts 1:1-11 Prologue
Today, we are starting a series in Acts. The timing is right. As a church, we are re-centering ourselves on the person of Jesus Christ, and in the book of Acts we see what happens when a community of people is also centered upon Jesus. As I’ve studied in Acts, I am struck again and…
God the Son: Who He is – The Deity of Jesus
There are lots of differing thoughts concerning Jesus of Nazareth. Some say there was no such person. Robert M. Price of the Jesus Seminar, says, “It is quite likely that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual… If you could travel back through time to first century Nazareth, you…
The Trinity
For a long time I have thought, “I need to preach on the Trinity.” The trigger for that was when I was in a church conference and heard a pastor, in his prayer, thank the Father for “coming to earth to die for our sins”. I thought, “The Father did not die. The Son did….