Sermons

According to Luke: Risky Business and Righteous Blessings Opening Illustration: Years ago, while a teenager, I was placed in a managerial role. I was working for a local gym in Montgomery. My job was to be there at the gym everyday at 4:30 in the morning. Did I mention to you that I was a teenager, 19 to be exact. How many 19 year olds do you believe could be depended on to be anywhere everyday at 19? Not many. I will tell you right now, that I was not a good choice for this job. I was constantly late and that infuriated those waiting to get in to work out.  My boss told me that I was not allowed to sit...ever. That’s right, I had to be on my feet doing something the entire time. I could vacuum. I could clean. I could greet. I just could not sit down. My boss was never there at the gym at 4:30 a.m. so she never knew that I was sitting down. What she did not know couldn’t hurt her. I had developed a habit while working the gym. I would arrive around 4:30 a.m. and then hea...

Why Is The Resurrection Important? Welcome: The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. "Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer; she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael; he's a doctor.'" A small voice at the back of the room rang out, "And there's the teacher, she's dead." Point: Death may be a normal occurrence but it does not have to be anything that we are scared of.  The reason is because of today.  Today is Easter.  Opening Illustration One: Most of us are familiar with this song – it’s the theme from the television show Friends. But have you ever caught the lyrics to the song? They read, in part: So no one told you life was gonna be this way Your job’s a joke, you’re broke, your love life’s D.O.A. It’s like you’re always stuck in second gear When it hasn’t be...

According to Luke: The Lost Coin Opening Illustration: Friends, what are some rules you live by? Think about it for a second. What are some general rules that you never break? Maybe you eat tacos every Tuesday. Maybe you only put 93 octane gas in your gas tanks. Do you wash your boat every time you take it out?  Well I have one rule that I generally live by. When I go ✈️ -skiing, I always remember to first remove my $150,000 earrings. It is just a rule of thumb I have. Atlanta Falcons wide receiver and Baldwin County native, Julio Jones is more of a daredevil than me, apparently, and during a jet-skiing excursion on Lake Lanier in northern Georgia a couple of years ago, he lost one of his glitzy earrings when he was tossed from his watercraft after hitting a boat wake. And so he did what any owner of $150,000 earrings would do: he hired a dive team to try to find the lost accessory.  It did not work. The dive team hired by Jones tried to scour the lake floor 65 ...