# 1 Hard Questions: How Can a Loving God Send People to Hell?
We're beginning a short series on the hard questions unbelievers ask. It is vital to realize that, as 2 Corinthians 4:4 says: The god of this age has blinded the ...
For 25 Years I’ve Gone to Church
We're closing out our nearly two-year study of John with Jesus' public recommissioning of Peter. Michael Card's book "A Fragile Stone" helped me to see two things I had missed: ...
IT IS THE LORD! John 21
Tim Keller says you don't know who Jesus is unless you are running from Him or toward Him. If you are somewhere in the middle, you do not see that ...
Easter 2025
Pexels photo by Gordeon Macleag This Easter Sunday morning I am in Florida for the weekend in a VRBO with my children, their spouses, and grandchildren. ...
Palm Sunday: My Lord & My God
Doubting Thomas by Caravaggio Caravaggio depicts not just Thomas but also other disciples wanting to see the wounds. He also depicts Thomas touching the wound, which ...
# 6 Lent Encountering the Risen King
A paradigm shift occurs when a discovery proves a long-held belief false. For instance, when Copernicus revealed that the Earth revolves around the Sun rather than the Sun around the ...
#5 Lent Holy Ground
When living in Kansas City, I went to a large church that was mostly young people who loved the Lord. I was moved at how, during communion, they all slipped ...
#4 Lent Ps. 22 (Part B.)
I've often told widows in high-tide grief, "It wouldn't hurt so much if you hadn't loved so much -- or for so long. The greater and longer the love, the ...
#3 Lent Psalm 22 (Part A.)
We will return to John 19 on March 30th, but as a preface for the next two weeks, we will be in Psalm 22, which prophesied many of the events ...
Lent 2: The Temptation of Power
Every human being is empty inside and needs someone, something, to come along and fill it with significance and honor and glory. Tim Keller What did Constantine do with power? ...
Lent: A Holy Season of Growth
Lent, approached rightly, can be a time of tremendous spiritual growth. There are so many scriptural promises that accompany abiding in Christ. In John alone, Jesus says: "If you abide ...
One Week Study on The Meaning of Marriage
Lent begins next week, and we will finish the Gospel of John during that time. But I was so inspired by going through Tim and Kathy Keller's: "The Meaning of ...
Ruth 3-4 The Sculptor’s Hands with Paige Benton Brown
I thought Paige's teaching magnificent, and as I often do, loved her closing. She zoomed in showing how mindful God is of ordinary people. Mindful of Ruth and Boaz in ...
Ruth 2 with Paige Benton Brown
Paige showed us the surgeon's hands of God in Ruth 1, where His knife was used for good, to remove stones from their hard hearts, for these were the days ...
Relationships in Ruth
Paige's father died, and we know how close she was to him. Pray for her and her whole family. Her church says she will be back this coming Wednesday, February ...