Ash Wednesday (February 10th) begins Lent 2016 and this year, my devotionals are called ReKindle. Have you ever felt full of joy, overwhelmed by God’s love for you, experienced total peace and contentment, and rejoiced in the wonder of what Jesus has done for you? Have you ever felt like it’s slipping away? Like you […]
Do you want to experience the joy of blooming where God plants you? To some of you, it must seem like I’ve gone underground. But ministry work has been occurring behind the scenes for both the ReKindle devotional series (beginning on Ash Wednesday February 10th) as well as preparing for a morning event for Lent presented by […]
Wow, can you believe it? It’s the last of our sermon series on the Book of Acts, but the end is actually a beginning. It’s going to prove to us that the story continues. It continues with you and it continues with me. That’s actually a great thing about stories. Until there’s the two word […]
The Gospel Story Continues with you and me, even after the last chapter of the Book of Acts. Was Luke intentionally vague about the ending to remind us of this truth? This is the final message in the sermon series Acts of the Holy Spirit and the Apostles and is based on Acts 28:11-31. While […]
Dear friends, as my time as preaching pastor at Plymouth Congregational Church of Racine (WI) winds down, God is moving me into a new volunteer ministry based on Romans 13:10: Romans 13:10 Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. As I ponder why God would have me […]
Imagine for a moment that you created something. You designed it. You planned it. You gave this perfect thing to someone else and they broke it. And they considered it worthless, broken, and nothing but junk to be discarded. Or maybe they decided to worship it. It was a created thing not a god and […]
For those of you signed up for devotionals, there will be one more sermon from Plymouth Church after this one on Acts 28:1-10 titled, “Setting the Record Straight” even while the daily devotionals continue for Advent. * * * Misunderstanding might be our national pastime. We misunderstand each other, our circumstances, our identities, affiliations, and […]
In Acts 28:1-10, Paul displays the spiritual value of practical ministry and gives us an opportunity for setting the record straight.
The last of the sermons from the Book of Acts at Plymouth Congregational Church of Racine, WI, will be included along with the Advent Devotionals for the next 2 weeks. === We’re nearly finished with the Book of Acts of the Holy Spirit and the Apostles. Interestingly the only apostle we’ve really been seeing much […]
The last of the sermons from the Book of Acts at Plymouth Congregational Church of Racine, WI, will be included along with the Advent Devotionals for the next 2 weeks. Our narrator Luke tells us of the shipwreck as the Apostle Paul was being transferred from prison in Caesarea to Rome. It’s a great story […]
