Matthew 3 This coming weekend 20 of us will be taking a bus to Erfoud, in the south of Morocco on the border with Algeria and on the edge of the Sahara Desert. I have wanted for several years to make a trek to the desert but this will be the first time for me…
Matthew 2 Why does it have to be so difficult to make a decision? Which college should I go to? Should I ask her to marry me? Should I say yes if he asks me to marry him? Or maybe I should break social convention and ask him to marry me? Should I look for…
Matthew 1:1-19 Matthew started his gospel with the genealogy of Jesus, which seems a strange place to start. It certainly does not seem to be the most stimulating way to begin a gospel account. If I were to tell you the story of my life and began with a long list of the names of…
Romans 6:21-23 A couple weeks ago Peter Lee preached and talked about his experience of moving from Seoul, Korea at the age of 15 to South Carolina in the US. The first year in the States was a very difficult time for my entire family. My older brother likes to call that first seven, eight…
Romans 6:15-23 Bob Dylan was in the 1960s the conscience of that rebellious generation. He is best known for the music he wrote but his influence on other singers and song writers is also part of his legacy. In late1978 Dylan was busy being born again. His widely-publicized conversion to Christianity made him perhaps the…