I Corinthians 6:9-20 Last week I began our three-part series on sex with a look at the Biblical view of sex. This morning I want to examine what it is that makes sexual immorality so devastating. The scriptures are pretty clear about the consequences of sexual immorality. Hebrews 13:4 Marriage should be honored by all,…
Acts 12:1-19 I read all the William Goldman novels I could when I was in university and The Princess Bride was one of these. So when a movie was made of The Princess Bride in 1987, it was with eagerness that I took my daughters to the movie theater and then a couple years later…
Acts 12:19b-24 When I think about the book of Acts I think about the excitement of the church as it grew from just a hundred or so followers of Jesus, to 3,000 converted at Pentecost, to the expansion of the church into Samaria and then into the Gentile world. I think about Acts as the…
Acts 9:43-10:23 My father had a number of prejudices, although I think he liked to hang on to them simply to provoke discussion. When I was in seminary one of my roommates came with me to visit my family and when my father discovered that my friend, David, had grown up in France, he said,…
Acts 9:32-43 This will be the fifth year we have preached from Acts in the period after Easter until summer. Over the past four years we have moved through nine and a half chapters of Acts. We ended last year with Paul being sent off to Tarsus because of threats on his life in Jerusalem…