John 14:15-21 On Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History podcast, there’s an episode about Ferdinand Magellan, the explorer who led the first...

Matthew 26: 17-29 What’s the best meal you’ve ever had? The most memorable one? The most meaningful one? Or the most delicious one? ...

Abundant Life & Eternal Life | John 10:1-10 There’s a funny video online of a boy who helps a sheep that’s stuck in a ditch. The boy...

John 21:19-31 In 1498, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama landed in India. Similar to Christopher Columbus, he was looking for a trade...

Easter Sunday; John 20:1-18 There’s a modern-day parable called the monkey trap. The idea is that a hunter discovers the perfect way to...

Maundy Thursday; John 13: 1-17, 31b-35 There’s a country music song from the early 2000s by Tim McGraw called “Live Like You Were Dying”....

John 11:17-45 There’s a modern-day parable about signs from God where a man is waiting at his house while a flood is about to engulf the...

John 9:1-41 Every Tuesday there’s a pastor’s bible study group I attend on zoom. We take turns leading it and this week the leader...

John 4:5-42 The movie Castaway is about a Fed Ex employee played by Tom Hanks who’s plane crashes on a deserted island. He learns how to...

John 3:1-17 Last week we heard of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness. Now for the rest of the Sundays in Lent, until Palm Sunday, we’re...

Matthew 4 :1-11 There’s a recent series on Prime Video called “Rings of Power.” It’s set a thousand years before the original Lord of...

Matthew 6: 1-6, 16-21 We live in what some call a “signal culture.” The term describes how humans tend to flaunt things we find...

Matthew 17:1-9 There’s a phenomenon known as the third man factor that many stranded explorers, shipwrecked crews, and mountaineers have...

Matthew 5:21-37 The way we choose to look at something can change the entire way we see and understand it. One philosopher gives the...

Matthew 5:13-20 Role Models is a 2008 comedy starring Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott. It’s a story about two men who get arrested and...

Matthew 5: 1-12 A few years ago I remember looking through some “first day of school” pictures. On my first day of sixth grade I had a...

Matthew 4:12-23 Pastor and theologian Rob Bell has a video series where he explains how in Jesus’ time being a disciple to any rabbi was...

Sunday, January 15, 2023 | Matthew 3: 13-17 Today is Baptism of our Lord Sunday. And we’re in the season of Epiphany. It’s the season...

Matthew 2:1-12 Have you ever thrown a birthday party and have people show up late? I remember a few years ago my sister-in-law and I put...

Christmas Sermon | Luke 2:1-20 It seems every family has some hilarious and terrible travel memory in family lore. One such time for me...