God never promised you your best life now. In fact, Jesus tells us in John 16 that we should expect trouble and tribulation in this world. In this 2 part sermon, Peter helps us identify four things when should avoid when we face trials.
Sermons on Romans
No one likes to be detoured. Roadblocks hinder us from reaching our destination efficiently. As we look at 1 Peter 2:13-17, we examine our role as dual citizens. This world is not our eternal home but it is our temporal home. When Peter tells us to submit to authority, does he mean total submission to…
If you haven’t noticed, the world can be a pretty hostile place to live… especially for a follower of Jesus. What are we to do? Worry? Whine? Cry foul… or have pity parties for ourselves? Do we sell everything we have and move to Montana in hopes that Jesus will return soon to rescue us…
In Peter Jackson’s “The Return Of The King”, the third movie in JRR Tolkein’s Lord Of The Rings series, Pippin and Gandalf engage in the following conversation when Gondor is under attack and defeat seems imminent: Pippin: “I didn’t think it would end this way…” Gandalf: “End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is…
Anyone can cut and paste Scriptures out of context and scream that Hell does not exist and that you don’t have to worry about going there. In fact that’s exactly what Brett Gallaher does in his blog, “Four Reasons Why You Are Probably Not Going To Hell”, published on The Huffington Post weblog in January…
In one of his more recent writings, Rob Bell, a “pastor” of a 7,000 member mega-church in Michigan broke theological ties with church historians and basic Gospel theology by throwing his support behind the theological teaching of Universalism in his book entitled, “Love Wins”. What is universalism you may ask? Universalism is the belief that…
According to a recent CBS poll (April 2014), “three out of four Americans believe in the existence of a heaven or a hell, including 66 percent who think both exist. Eleven percent believe only heaven exists. Seventeen percent of Americans don’t think either place exists.” However, there is one statistic that is missing… death. Death…
Just a few years ago, Felix Baumgartner broke the world record for the highest jump and longest freefall when he jumped out of a special space capsule attached to a helium-filled balloon at 128,100 feet. What fascinated me was what he said before he jumped. He said, “I know the whole world is watching right…