by Bro. Michael | Jan 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
In my beard-induced haze on Sunday morning, I forgot where I was going somewhere around my fifth sub-sub-point. I offer these leftovers which could have been served up from the pulpit. It is true that Christ, in an Uncle Sam kind of way, points at each one of us and...
by Bro. Michael | Oct 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
“The most encouraging thing anyone has ever said to me about my church family was, ‘It’s quite hard being a couple in this church.’ [smile… audience laughs] I was thrilled, in a very ungodly way.” Does that sound confusing? Ed Shaw...
by Bro. Michael | Jul 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
Preaching has its perils. By preaching, I mean expository preaching. When my job is to preach the message of the text, rather than preach my message with some texts, all sorts of casualties occur. My understanding of how things happened in the Bible, my notions of how...
by Bro. Michael | Jul 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
Posture matters. Not only does your posture have an impact on your health, it necessarily reflects and affects your inner person. Mom’s instructions move accurately and quickly from physicality to character. “Don’t slouch” becomes...
by Bro. Michael | Jun 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
God made us for His own glory. Genesis 1:26-28 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing...
by Bro. Michael | Jun 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Some folks surf the fluid wave of trending pop culture and slang. I am not one of them. The Oxford English Dictionary is more happening than me. At least Oxford knows the term “woke.” It added the term back in 2017. Although this slang term originates from...
