Five Lessons Learned at Eastside (sermon audio) March 31, 2009

Here’s the sermon audio from the message I preached on my final Sunday at Eastside Baptist Church.

A Letter of Charge; A Rite of Passage March 30, 2009

I was recently asked to deliver a charge to a young man in my youth group at his 13th birthday party. The party was a festive sort of rite of passage. There were six men asked to come and share either words of encouragement or words of charge. We were each asked to write a letter to the young man as well. Here is the letter that I gave to him. Enjoy.

Is a Wife Commanded to Respect Her Husband? March 14, 2009

Recently some married friends of mine were going to be speaking to a group of teenagers about what it means to be a godly husband and godly wife.  They shared with me some of the material they would be spring-boarding off of, so to speak, during their talk.  Most of it was pretty [...]

The Bible…”Breathed out by God” January 22, 2009

                The Bible.  Plain and simple—it’s the most important book and the most unique book that’s ever been written.  40 different human writers over 1600 years combine to give us 66 individual books, 1,189 chapters, 31,102 verses, 773,746 words and 3,566,480 letters (these numbers reflect the King James Version of the Bible). 
                Weighing in [...]

Life’s Not Fair, But Time Is January 8, 2009

                Sometimes things don’t work out the way we want them to.  Case in point: maybe you didn’t get the raise you were promised.  Or maybe someone skipped in front of you in the line at McDonald’s. 
Or how about this: maybe the supposed “marital bliss” that you’d always dreamt of turned out to be [...]