Sermons

  Nehemiah:Renew Restore Rebuild Answering The Call  Opening Illustration: Over the course of the last year, all of us have had to endure the inconvenience of COVID-19. For some it meant to wear masks when we didn’t really want to wear a mask. If you are like my wife, it meant that you no longer worked from an office but rather you worked from home. Kids had to stay home from school. Ten came the vaccinations. You probably heard about all those who lost their jobs due to the pandemic. Hit especially hard was the food service industry. I have an subscription to Christianity Today and they were interviewing a man living in California who had worked for 20 years as a waiter. Before the pandemic, he worked long hard hours. He said that he would work some weeks upwards of 90 hours. After the pandemic, his restaurant closed down and he was let go. His response was curious. Im not sure that I would have been able to respond they way that this gentlemen did. Listen to what he said...

  According To Luke: The Last Message and Mandate of Christ Opening Illustration: I had been married for a year when my grandfather passed away. He was a man of tremendous humor. He loved making people laugh and he got his greatest enjoyment from making others smile. I was amazed that even on his death bed, he was still trying to make others happy. I can remember some of his last words. He was laying in the hospital bed and he began to moan. The nurse, who he found attractive, came into the room. She came to the bed and asked, “Mr. Davidson, are you ok?”. Papa, thats what we called him, began to whisper and then moan once more. The nurse moved closer to best hear him better and yet again, he whispered and moaned again. She moved in even further. He did this once more. He moaned, whispered, and the nurse moved in even closer. Finally, as the nurse had moved even closer, he sat up suddenly in his bed and said, “Kiss me”! The room burst out in laughter. Even the nurse. The tension ...