The Simpleton Blog

I am a fantastic father. Right up until the moment when I’m not. I am a picture perfect husband, except when I’m not. I am totally sold...

I read a story a few years ago about a women’s conference - one of those inspiring, empowerment, self-help type conferences. The leader...

Money does something funny to the human heart, doesn’t it? As some of you know, I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit - and so the Detroit...

I didn’t intend to start every sermon in this series with a personal story - but last week and this week, it’s just what occurs to me....

Let me tell you a little something about your arrogant pastor. I have been the lead pastor here at Center Church, we’re coming up on a...

[repeat of one from about a year ago titled "The King of Kings"] Alright, here we go. Today is the last message in our series called...

How do you measure whether someone is your friend? Is it when they can remember your name on a Sunday morning? Is it when they’ve come...

One of the most famous “battles” of the revolutionary war was the crossing of the Delaware River. Do you remember that story? If you...

If you have a dollar in your pocket this morning - every second that goes by it is worth less and less. A dollar is worth less today than...

How do we build a life that will last?  So many times we experience victory in life, but then something happens and completely wipes out...

Manuscript of Christmas Eve sermon

Hosea and Galatians 3:23-29 I’m starting to believe that Love is one of the more useless words in the English language. Don’t get me...

Back in the 1950’s there was a professor at John Hopkins University name Curt Richter who did some famous experiments. Now I’ll warn you,...

I want to begin this morning with a very simple question - What do you long for?  In this holiday season, do you long for happiness? Or...

As some of you already know we are on week 2 of our little three week series called Election Recovery Guide. We’re not going to talk...

Well - I suppose to start this morning we should talk about the elephant in the room. [painfully long pause] And the donkey. And the...

This morning I’d like to open up with a little game I’m going to call “blast from the past”. I’m going to throw a couple of brand names...

Good morning. Today I want to start by telling you a little story about this guy (put a picture of the parrot on the screen) . This is...

Is trust really trust when we’ve got a back-up plan? There was once a young boy who went hiking with his father. The boy was all over the...

Did you ever have a plan in your head for how things are supposed to go - and then they don’t go that way? When I was in seminary, and I...