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Pastor’s Bookshelf - Welcome to my bookshelf! Each month I will discuss a recent book that I’ve finished. This time I’d like to talk...

Pastor’s Bookshelf - Welcome to my bookshelf! Each month I will discuss a recent book that I’ve finished. This time I’d like to talk...

Click HERE for the Sermon Notes PDF.. When I was a kid, my parents were really strict. Dad was a pastor, my mom was a dentist - so there...

Click HERE for the PDF Notes.. There’s an old story about a bishop who was visiting a church in California. And he looked on the way, and...

*The following is my manuscript that I used for a message delivered to the opening worship of Family Camp at Bayshore Camp. Based on...

When my wife and I first got married we lived in and around Chicago. At one point we lived out in the western suburbs, but I was going to...

Click HERE for the Sermon Notes.. The Pilgrim Psalms Psalm 118:19-29 Do you have to go to church to be a good Christian? How many times?...

One of the quintessential movies of my high school years was the high school comedy “Mean Girls.” Written by Tina Fey back in 2004, and...

Click here for the sermon notes (PDF) The Sovereignty Of God - 07.09.2023 [Proverbs 30:1-10] I had a history professor in seminary who...

Click here for the sermon notes (PDF).. Dysfunctional Family Love – 07.02.2023 [Hosea 11:1-11] There was once a woman named Corrie Ten...

Click here for the PDF.. Click here for the Word Doc.. On The Run - 06.25.2023 [Jonah 2:1-10] Dwight L. Moody, very famous evangelist...

Click here for the PDF.. Click here for the Word Doc.. American Idols - 06.18.2023 [1 Kings 22:41-50] You can’t “almost” be a Christian....

Click HERE for the PDF.. Click HERE for the Word.. Keeping Your Focus - 06.11.2023 [Song of Songs 4] CS Lewis, in his phenomenal book...

Click here for the Word Doc.. Click here for the PDF.. Solomon’s Secret To Success 1 Kings 4:29-5:5 One of my least favorite seasons in...

Click here for the Word Doc.. Click here for the PDF.. Outward Focus - 05.21.2023 [1 Kings 3:3-15] Have you ever played that game - what...

CLICK HERE FOR THE WORD DOC.. Click here for the PDF.. Intake To Outflow - 05.14.2023 Psalm 27:1-14 When I was in seminary I had the...

Click HERE for the Word Doc.. Click HERE for the PDF.. Passing the Torch - 05.07.2023 1 Chronicles 21:14-18 There’s an old TV show called...

Click here for the PDF.. Click here for the WORD Doc.. From The Mountain To The Valley 2 Samuel 12:1-14 When I was back in high school,...

Click here for the Word Doc.. Click here for the PDF.. A Heart For God 1 Samuel 24:1-17 There’s a very famous preacher named Charles...

Click here for the PDF.. Click here for the Word Doc.. As we get to know one another as pastor and congregation, you’re going to find...