There are dirty jobs, dead end jobs, and even dream jobs. But did you know that every job should be a DIVIDEND JOB.  In our passage Sunday, the Apostle assures first century SLAVES working both dirty and dead end jobs, how to turn them into a DIVIDEND JOB. Slavery was an ever-present feature of the Roman World. […]

Trickle down economics is the theory that allowing the top earners to keep more of their money means they will either invest it in new ventures or spend it, both creating more jobs.  The money will “trickle down” to those making less money.  But worry not, Sunday’s sermon is not on economics. It is about […]

The Yellowstone Club is an exclusive club.  The initiation fee is $300,000.00 plus $30,00.00 annual fee.  One more thing, you must build a house worth at least $2,000,000.00. Clubs, not only require a lot of cash, but also a certain comportment of each member. There are things to do and not do, ways to dress and act, and certainly an expectation […]

I am sure you have heard the expression, “He is so Heavenly minded, he is of no earthly good.”  To be honest with you, I have never met anyone in my 45 years of ministry like this.  They do not exist. C. S. Lewis put it this way. “A continual looking forward to the eternal world […]

Legalism – Mysticism – Asceticism  A mental illness is a condition that affects a person’s thinking, feeling or mood. Such conditions may affect someone’s ability to relate to others and function each day. (From National Association of Mental Illness) Spiritual Illness also affects a person’s thinking, feeling or mood. Last week our focus was on one of […]

“What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in […]

A very well know author and conference speaker made the following statement: “Well, if you want to get a lot of fake Christians in your church, just tell them that there is this free gift that entails no self-sacrifice and that trouble and cross-bearing are only for those super saints who choose extra-large when they […]

On the evening of May 31, 2009, 216 passengers, three pilots, and nine flight attendants boarded an Airbus A330 in Rio de Janeiro. This flight, Air France 447, was headed across the Atlantic to Paris. The takeoff was unremarkable. The plane reached a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet; passengers read, watched movies, and slept. Everything […]

Forrest Fenn, after the death of a Grand Junction pastor (not the first casualty), is considering calling off his treasure hunt. Mr Fenn has hidden a bronze chest filled with gold, valuable prehistoric bracelets, and gems valued between 1-2 million dollars.  There is no map with “X marks the spot.”  But there is a self-published memoir, […]

One of the most beloved stories that Jesus told has been called the “Parable of the Prodigal Son”. It’s not just a warm fuzzy feel-good story, but it is a powerful wake-up call with a very important warning. Perhaps if we called it the “Parable of the Incredible Father”, we’d find it easier to focus on the […]