In today’s passage that we just read we got a real glimpse of what happens when people talk about Jesus.  In John 1 we are the very beginning of Jesus’s ministry. The calling to be Fishers of men is another version of this story, but John gives back ground that others don’t.  That background is […]

To describe a Christian, one who is alive in Christ, Paul starts by talking about death. Why would he do that? Before a Christian is made alive in Christ they must first die in Christ.    You can’t be alive in Christ without dying to your self.   As we continue thinking about our responsibility […]

If we want to get right down to it, the mission of the followers of God has never changed since Jesus walked along the sea of Galilee and began to call people to him.  Our job is to tell others about the good news of Jesus Christ. We are all sinners gone astray, but God […]

Have you ever had a job where you got thrown in on first day with no training? It doesn’t work very well.  For most of human history we understood that to learn a skilled trade you had to spend time working with someone who was already doing it.  In the 1970’s they began publishing a […]

Our passage today in Psalm 48 gives the picture of a place and a person that are inseparably linked. It’s not just a memory, it’s a real thing.  The image that David gives in Psalm 48 is not one spot lifted up, but the city lifted up.  It’s the whole city, lifted up as the […]

Each generation comes with it’s own special age of fears.  Maybe you remember hiding under your desk when we worried about Soviet Russia, or worried banks would fail because they had before like those who lived through the Great Depression that feared those things.  It might be Russia, or China, or whatever, that we are […]

Knowledge is important. But so is experience.  You don’t want someone who it is their first time building a house, even if they’ve read all the books about it.  You don’t want somebody who it’s their first time performing surgery, even if they went to school for it. We don’t even want someone to take […]

Shakespeare called envy “the green sickness,” Sir Francis Bacon says that envy never takes a holiday,” and Horace said that “tyrants have never invented a greater torment than envy.”  We don’t mind seeing others do well, as long as we are doing well too. That’s at the heart of what David says in Psalm 37. […]

There is no book in the world more relatable to our lives than the Bible.  It’s easy to see the Bible as a bunch of old names and places that we don’t recognize and can barely pronounce.  But no book is the world is more relatable than the Bible. And maybe no book in the […]

This lesson was delivered at Falls Creek Baptist Youth Camp Week 5 during the afternoon breakout sessions by Pastor Luke Holmes