Sunday Worship (Page 20)
Dear friends, Have you made any resolutions since COVID 19? If so, what are they and have you broken any? Many “New Year’s Resolutions” do not even make it until the end of January, but why? It normally is not due to “bad intentions.” Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Protestant…
Dearly beloved, In March of 1996 I was holding my dad’s hand in our bedroom surrounded by 2 of my sisters, Patty, Kelley, and Glen when he took his last breath on planet earth. It was a painful separation from the father who I had known and loved for 53 years. He was suddenly gone!…
When is the last time you googled something? if you are like most people, you probably consult the internet search engine numerous times every day. In fact, in 2019 Google received over 63,000 searches per second on any given day. That translates into 3.8 million searches per minute, 228 million searches per hour, 5.6 billion…
Most of the time I’m happy to be ignorant of the latest fads, celebrity news, sports, movies, music, and the like. But I’m concerned about a trend that appears to be taking over. It’s the “cancel culture”. While there may be different definitions, it’s the phenomenon of promoting the “canceling” of people, institutions, brands and…
Dear beloved friends, Kurt reminded us on Sunday about “loving one another” amidst pain and disillusionment. There are over 50 “one another” exhortations in the NT. The Holy Spirit reminds us that we need one another especially in providing comfort! This “isolation” that we have and are experiencing should never be the “new normal” for…
Dear Valley Church family, As most of you know I’ve got leaky eyes. It doesn’t take much to get tears started for me. This Sunday I’ll be preaching on one of my favorite Bible texts. It’s just two words – “Jesus wept”. No, it’s not my “life verse”, but it certainly seems appropriate for these…
A couple of years ago Valorie and I led a team from Valley Church to serve with Hands of Hope (HOH) in Zimbabwe. Glen and Patty Miller have seen the Lord do amazing things for almost two decades as they’ve sought to care for the poor, the orphans, and the disadvantaged through the love and…
The Bible tells us in Romans 12:15, “… weep with those who weep.” My heart is heavy over the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many more deeply painful reminders of the sin of injustice. I sorrow for the families of these as well as those of Patrick Underwood, David McAtee,…
Every once in a while, we get to see God’s incredible timing. As you know we’ve been praying and fasting our way through the book of Joel as a church. This week we turned a corner to the themes of “restore” and “return”. We read about God’s gracious blessings on His peple after a time…
Valley Church Family, We are in the midst of a wonderful series on Family Matters. In the last few weeks, we have been reflecting on God’s design for husbands and wives in marriage. We live in an exceedingly permissive culture in which threats to a Godly marriage are numerous, so in my sermon this week…