The Simpleton Blog

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...

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...

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...

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...