This week we finally hear from “the horses mouth”. Until now there has been much conversation about what God did or did not do. Now God speaks for Himself. His words are forceful yet loving. He is trying to get Job to see things as they really are. He chooses questions over accusations. Job 38-41 allow us Read more

This week we will be introduced to yet another character in Job’s life. Elihu was a younger man – certainly not a contemporary of Job and his other friends. While the other three friends had good things to say initially, they eventually ran out of answers for Job’s many questions and muddied the waters by Read more

This week we’ll explore one simple question… what do chapters 13 & 17 say about Job’s view of God… or… his theology? Though we have come to see the word “theology” as one for the academics, simply put, everyone has a theology… a way that they view God. Please read the two chapters mentioned above Read more

Yes, this is perhaps the largest single chunk of Scripture we have wrestled. But take heart, it reads like a story and will unfold in surprisingly short order as we listen in on phase 2 of our new friend Job’s challenges and his somewhat varied response from that of phase 1. We’ll be introduced to Read more

As fall arrives and we enter a new ministry year I have been contemplating this question… where does vision come from? It often seems that the blind are leading the blind. No direction. Or worse… different directions and no forward movement. So what of it? I have been wrestling with this idea by looking at Read more

Last week we took our second stress test as we examined Habakkuk 1:12-2:20 and saw how we are to react to the seeming success of the godless. It was helpful to gain perspective that even though people who reject God seem to be prospering… their prosperity is only temporary at best. In the end God will be Read more

Last week we started our new series called Stressed Out: a study of the book of Habakkuk. We started in Habakkuk 1:1-11 looking at Stress Test #1: God, Are You Listening? It is frustrating enough when we are stressed and struggling. Then add to that stress the feeling that no one (namely the God that we Read more

This week we’ll begin a new sermon series. This series will show us ways that we all deal with stress in our lives and how we might deal with it better. We’re calling it Stressed Out: a study of the book of Habakkuk. We’ll begin with a look at Habakkuk 1:1-11. In this opening part of the Read more

This coming Sunday is Easter Sunday. We will take a careful look at the Resurrection of Jesus and what role it plays in our faith. We will turn to the book immediately following Romans to study through much of 1 Corinthians 15. Clearly Easter has become a trademark of the Christian faith, but why? What makes Read more

This past Sunday we studied Romans 14 and learned about the proper way Christians are to view their liberty in areas where the Scripture is not explicity black or white. We saw that even more than personal freedom and ultimate personal accountability to God, it is our attitude toward those who may not share our position Read more