Forgiveness - Acts 16
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...
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Nov 18
Humility - Acts 16
Well - I suppose to start this morning we should talk about the elephant in the room. [painfully long pause] And the donkey. And the...
Oct 29
The Solution - Luke 10
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...
Oct 15
Shifting Landscapes - Acts 11-13
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...
Oct 7
No Other Gods - 1 Kings 18
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...
Oct 1
Needs - Genesis 22
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...
Sep 23
Community - Jeremiah 32
Have you ever wondered how much of you is you? Or how much of you is influenced and created by the people around you? I remember when...
Sep 12
Priorities
You know - we’ve been doing this series on money and following God this past month - and this is what I hope to be true about myself and...
Sep 12
Fear Over Faith - [Isaiah 6]
I wanted to start this morning with a simple question. What do you want your life to be for? For example, what do you want the top line...
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Aug 14
Security [Luke 12]
08.11.2024 - Sermon Manuscript Once upon a time there was a man named Bob. Bob was a saver, and very tight with his money. He was NOT a...
Aug 6
Greed [Luke 12]
A long time ago there was this guy named John Wesley - he was a preacher in England. And something happened to him one day that totally...
Jul 22
Peacemakers [Ephesians 4]
One of my least favorite seasons in life is election season. Before I became a pastor, I never realized how challenging it would be -...
Jul 15
Pure In Heart
Couple of weeks ago, I was mowing my lawn. And as some of you know - I live up in Grand Rapids, and we’re sort of downtown-ish, north of...
Jul 1
Hunger and Thirst
Sermon Text - 06.30.2024 Today I want to start out with a little bit of a confession. One of my greatest weaknesses, one of my secret...
Jun 15
Mourn
Sermon Text - 06.16.2024 Years ago I was chatting with a pastor buddy of mine and we were talking about funerals. And he said one of his...
Jun 1
Backwards
Sermon Text - 06.02.2024 I heard a phrase this last week - it was one of those totally random things where you just have to stop and...
May 21
A Life Of Surrender - Philippians 3
Jesus Plus Nothing - 05.19.2024 Couple years back there was this amazing story that came out about a man named Phil Vischer. For those...
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May 13
The Mentality [Philippians 1-2]
A couple of weeks ago, before my family moved to Grand Rapids - I had started working at this church, but I was still commuting about 2...
May 6
I Don't Have Much Hope [Hebrews 11]
In the book of Genesis, in the very beginning of the bible, there’s a story about two people - Adam and Eve, and they were in a garden....
Apr 29
I Am Completely Alone [Psalm 23:4]
Some of you already know this - but when I became the pastor here at Center Church, we were still in the process of selling our house and...
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