I finish off the sermon series on stories of the Bible with the story of the Golden Calf from Exodus 32. I wrestle in this sermon with Idols today.  How do texts about idols speak to us today?  What does idolatry look like today?  What do we do about our idols?  I owe much in this sermon to Pastor Mark Driscoll and Pastor Timothy Keller.

Today I had a well and a bed up front as I compared the story of the woman at the well in John 4 with the story of Nicodemus in John 3.  I added at the conclusion to worship that we believe that Nicodemus does become a believer later, though I held onto that information during the sermon.

This sermon is about the story of Daniel in the Lion's Den from Daniel 6.  I also tie it into communion for the day.

This sermon is on the all too familiar story of Zacchaeus.  The text is really about 2 conversations- one between Jesus and Zacchaeus, the other between Jesus and the crowd.  What can we learn from these conversations?

This is a sermon to get past the "children's sermon knowledge" that many of us have of the the story of David and Goliath.  I read the entire passage from The Message and then look at the story from the perspective of Goliath.

This is the story of the call of Samuel.  Are we ready for God to do something that will make the ears of all who hear about it tingle?  Are we ready to boldly obey?

Here I continue the summer of story series with the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000.  I was inspired by and borrowed at several points from Dr. Barnes now of Princeton Seminary who preached this text at the Festival of Homiletics.  Also included in the recording is my benediction.

I seek in this sermon to get past the children's story of the flood and wrestle with it as adults.  How could God do this?  How could Noah follow God so faithfully when it was so difficult?

Today, in our summer of story series, we look at Jesus calming the storm.  Such a fun and intriguing story.