The Simpleton Blog

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...

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...

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...

One of my least favorite seasons in life is election season. Before I became a pastor, I never realized how challenging it would be -...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Power Living - [Romans 1] When I was in seminary, I had a history professor who wanted to teach us about early church theological...

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....

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...

[Psalm 23:2] A long time back, Princeton University did an experiment with seminary students to prove that when we are rushed, we...

“This is who I AM MOM - you just don’t understand me” - it’s the motto of every teenage generation. As we transition from child to adult...

03.31.2024 - I Am Not Enough [John 10 and Psalm 23:1] To get us started this morning, I want to show you two different headlines. First,...

Have you ever left an “accidental” legacy? I remember one time, I was a college student doing youth ministry at my home church in the...

Click HERE for the Sermon Notes.. A long time ago there was a really famous evangelist and speaker named Dwight L Moody, who worked...

Ephesians 3 Click here for the sermon notes.. When I was in college, I had a close friend named Stephanie. Steph had a roommate,...

To all of our beloved friends and family, (and anybody else curious enough to find out more), To be honest, a “roller coaster of emotion”...