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Pastor, I Can’t Remember the Sermon

Do you struggle with retaining the information from the Sunday sermon? Maybe in the moment, you’re agreeing with everything you hear from the pastor, only to find yourself on Monday or Tuesday having completely forgotten the details. Or maybe even in the moment as you listen to the sermon, you have a hard time following…

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Why Galatians?

I’ll admit it. The writings of Paul feel like home to me. If there is a place I want to make a beeline to in the Bible, outside of John’s Gospel, it’s the letters of Paul. But Galatians has always been a challenge for me. And in the spirit of leaning into a good challenge,…

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Why Malachi?

Why Malachi? Why in the world would we do a sermon series on the book of Malachi? You might be asking, Isn’t there something more relevant we could study in the Bible? That’s a fair question. A few years ago, I probably would have asked the same thing. Like many believers, I often overlooked the…

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Tekel

A verse that has lingered in my mind ever since Keith preached through Daniel is Daniel 5:27, “Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting.” The context is that God has written on the king’s wall and Daniel is interpreting the words back to the king.  “Tekel” being one of the words.…

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When Life Punches You in the Mouth

Most of my Tuesdays are spent studying for both the upcoming Sunday sermon and the men’s class I lead on Wednesday evenings. After wrapping up my sermon prep, I shift gears to work on the men’s lesson. We’re currently going through a BetterMan series on courageously following God’s Word. As I read through the material…

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Is the Church More Than a Church?

As a young guy in my late teens I went to “church” for the first time. When the word “church” was brought up to me, my first thought was getting up early on a Sunday morning, getting dressed up, and going to a beautiful church building with a steeple. And then, singing a few songs…

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God, Use My Grief

It was 2007 when I took a phone call from my mother. She had always struggled with various health issues throughout her life. Once again, she was facing serious complications and had gone to the doctor. The diagnosis was grim. She explained what was happening, and with a heavy heart, she told me that the…

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A Helpful Reminder

He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. – Matthew 19:8 I do not intend this to be a treatise on divorce, as the context of this passage might be well used to address, but rather a reminder…

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