Have you ever been hated? I have. In fact, if I tell you the truth and that’s my policy: I am regularly hated by quite a few people. It’s not a particularly happy experience, that’s for sure. But, if you’re hated by the right people for the right reasons, it can actually be a good […]
The audio version of The Believers’ Prayer (click link) with 5 Strategies for Dealing with Persecution is now available on YouTube. For those of you receiving these emails for the Advent Devotional Series, Carol Me Christmas! I still post both the audio and the sermon text versions of messages I preach on Sundays along with the day’s Advent devotionals. I […]
(Note: For those of you receiving these emails for the Carol Me, Christmas (2014 Advent Devotional Series) I still post both the audio and the sermon text versions of messages I preach on Sundays along with the day’s Advent devotionals. I hope you enjoy these sermons and are blessed by them. When the Ordinary Meets the […]
The audio version of When the Ordinary Meets the Extraordinary (click link) is now available on YouTube. For those of you receiving these emails for the Advent Devotional Series, Carol Me Christmas! I still post both the audio and the sermon text versions of messages I preach on Sundays along with the day’s Advent devotionals. I hope you […]
Happy Thanksgiving 2014 from Seminary Gal!
Monica Lewinski. Oscar Pistorius. OJ Simpson. Lindsay Lohan. Tiger Woods. Lance Armstrong. Richard Nixon. Pete Rose. The list goes on of people who actually had a lot going for them until they did stupid things, immoral things, and/or illegal things that got them noticed for the bad in their lives instead of the good. The […]
When is the last time you were cut to the heart by something you’d done being made public? How did you deal with it? Listen to this message on the Apostle Peter’s sermon found in Acts 2:14-41 and see why 3000 people became followers of Jesus Christ that day!
My license plate proudly states “Land of Lincoln.” Want to know why that is? It’s because by many measures, Illinois hasn’t had an honest politician since then. Land of Lincoln, our glory days! No one wants a license plate that says Land of Blagojevich since it’s hard to pronounce, harder to spell, and would probably […]
King David, the Jews’ favorite son, spoke of the Resurrected Messiah and in Acts 2:25-35, the Apostle Peter appeals to the Jews to heed David’s prophecy. Click the link below to listen to the message “David Said.” It was first preached at Plymouth Congregational Church of Racine, WI on October 19, 2014 by Barbara Shafer. […]
Last week we saw that one of the ways people try to diminish the Gospel and discredit the works of God would be to ridicule it. Today, I wanted to look at the speech Peter gives in response so we can see a really good outline for how to present the Gospel by addressing the […]
