Mothers’ Day Teaching
As we approach Mothers’ Day, it’s important to remember that there are women who would like to be mothers, but for various reasons, they are not. For example, about 12% of the couples in America...
View Article?S: Questions and Doubts About Faith Results
Our second sermon series after launching weekly worship at One Church was entitled ?S: Questions and Doubts About Faith. You can listen to the sermon series here. On our first two Sundays, I collected...
View ArticleThe Bible and Slavery
The following is from my sermon, “What Does the Bible Teach about Slavery and Sexuality?” (October 20, 2013). All Scripture quotes are from the NIV. In the early 1860s, slavery divided our nation to...
View ArticleWhy I Welcome People Who Are Gay (Part 4)
There are many passages in the Old Testament and several passages in the New Testament that very few Christians in the United States or in the larger Developed World interpret as binding for all time....
View ArticleTen Things Conservative Christians Got Horribly Wrong
A friend sent this article from Salon to me. Salon is a left-leaning publication, so Evangelicals will be suspicious of it. The author is generally correct, however, in her assessment of the role of...
View ArticleNew Series- We’re All In This Together: Ephesians
This Sunday, One Church is beginning a new sermon series entitled We’re All In This Together: Ephesians. I have two goals for the series: To apply practical wisdom from Ephesians to our lives To learn...
View ArticleWhat Does Jesus Say About Same Sex Marriage?
Jesus does not mention homosexuality or same sex marriage in the Gospels. Some Christians believe that Jesus did, however, when the Pharisees asked him his stance on divorce (divorce, mind you, not...
View ArticleLove.Sex.Marriage.
Today, I started a new sermon series at One Church entitled Love.Sex.Marriage. There are three big “back to church” times of the year- 1) Christmas Eve/January, 2) Easter-Mother’s Day, and 3)...
View ArticleMarriage Resources
During the sermon series Love.Sex.Marriage., I’m sharing relationship resources with the One Church congregation. Two excellent marriage resources are The Zimzum of Love: A New Way of Understanding...
View ArticleWhat Is Love? (Baby, don’t hurt me…)
This is the first sermon from the series I’m currently teaching at One Church, Love.Sex.Marriage. It’s entitled, “What Is Love?” (Sing it with me: “Baby, don’t hurt me…”) During the sermon I quote from...
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