+Have you ever watched a church being built?
Watching any large building being put together is probably close enough. It’s such an amazing thing to see in process. This morning as I was walking back from chapel I saw two cranes lifting up a huge truss for our new santuary and it got me to thinking. [...]
So why do we make New Years Resolutions? Have you thought about that as you consider your own coming up?
This is again one of those areas of history where there is much tradition and probably not complete certainty. New Years celebrations themselves go back thousand of years with the ancient Babylonians who celebrated the New [...]
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O look back and think that
This baby would one day save me
In the hope that what You did
That you were born so I might live
To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me.
This is a pretty impressive though isn’t it. To think that from the beginning of time God had a plan [...]
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Thanksgiving is kind of one of those holidays isn’t it? It’s one where the first things that leap to mind are fun and sometimes even funny.
We think of turkeys and football, families hanging out, meals that are too big to eat, people dressed up in silly costumes trying to bring the story to life, all [...]
Recently, I was honored to be part of the North Texas LCMS mission festival which was held at our church. It was great to listen to the speakers, eat different foods, and join together with Christian brothers and sisters reaching different people in different ways, but with the same Word of Gospel and the same [...]
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So this weekend at Messiah we’re going to start something new and we’re starting it this weekend to honor Reformation Day.
Yes in our worship we’ll sing “A Mighty Fortress is our God”, and we’ll talk about the 95 Theses in the sermon, and all that good stuff, but one of the ways I think we [...]
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So what is the hardest thing to do as a Christian? What’s the hardest virtue to achieve?
Ok, so yes, it’s not true for everyone, but I think Psalm 131 focuses on something that is incredibly difficult for most of us. Humility. And I don’t mean false humility. I don’t mean being depressed or thinking lowly [...]
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We speak often of our lives as a journey. It works well as a metaphor because our lives stretch out into the distance and there are so many twists and turns within. Keep that metaphor in mind as I talk about Psalm 121 for a second.
Psalm 121 (listen/watch it here) is composed of words from [...]
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.- Job 1:21
I planned on writing the first in a series on Heaven is For Real today. I did. I have the book on my desk, but I can’t talk about that today (I promise to start next week). [...]
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In watching this video, I was remind of a couple of very important things.
First, it is essential that we pray to God and truly give thanks that he has blessed us with a national that has incredible freedoms. Our nation is far from perfect, but no matter how often we see that in front of [...]
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