Tag: Sermon

Whether Pharisee or Tax Collector, we all find welcome in God's Temple, and for that, we can truly be thankful.

I give you this charge: Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.

The practice of intentional gratitude changes lives, and as we have seen in this story today, but gratitude can transform all of us, this congregation, and thro...

The bottom line is, no one was excluded from that table. So, perhaps the "do this" is do not exclude anyone.

That teenaged activist, that mother and child at the border, that person being made fun of in an early morning Tweet, that single mother in the grocery store at...

It is my sincere belief that the Christian Church has lost its way. We have become comfortable and complacent, and we have become afraid of upsetting anyone out...

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus.

Being a disciple means we have to have the mind of Christ in all things and think and act the way Christ wants us to think and act.

Real exhortation aims not so much at dangling a person over the flames of hell as spurring them on to the joys that we find in our life with Christ.

When Christ becomes the center of our lives, we can then present real worship, not just the worship contained in the four walls of the church but true worship o...