Text: 2 TIMOTHY 4:6-8 | FINISH YOUR COURSE ILLUSTRATION: Dinner at Roy’s The pea pods The appetizer: Shrimp Skewers The Main Course: Lobster tail and Ribeye I ate the whole thing, there was nothing left. I finished my course! EXPLANATION: Paul was now being held in the Mamertine Prison It wasn’t like…

GENESIS 3:15 | ADAM AND EVE’S PERSPECTIVE ON CHRISTMAS ILLUSTRATION : I love Christmas I love everything about Christmas The lights The tree The gifts The get-togethers The songs I even like the claymations of the guy in the red suit and red hat. Many of my favorite memories surround this time of the…

JOHN 3:22-30 | THE CURE TO COMPARISON ILLUSTRATION : I married the queen of comparison. When it comes to shopping, she has never made an impulse purchase. For her the decision to buy something is scientific. She instinctively knows where every clearance rack is. I don’t know that she has ever paid full…

JOHN 3:16-21 | HINDSIGHT IS 20 /20 ILLUSTRATION : They say that hindsight is 20/20. You’ve probably heard someone say that before. Tressa and I had the blessing of getting away for about a week a few months back. And as part of our trip, I did something I don’t normally do… I scheduled our flight back…

JOHN 3:9-15 | REFUSE TO BELIEVE ILLUSTRATION : Have you ever refused to believe something? Tressa broke up with me the month before our senior year of college. But I refused to believe it. She made a decision I refused to participate in. For the first month of our Senior year, I was miserable. But finally,…

JOHN 3:1-8 | THE WIND OF THE SPIRIT ILLUSTRATION : Growing up I was fascinated with the wind. In particular, I was fascinated with tornados. I have shared before of my dreams to either be a NBA basketball player, a country music singer, or a Tornado chaser. When I was in 3rd grade we were given the assignment…

JOHN 2:13-25 | LESSONS IN JERUSALEM ILLUSTRATION : My high school basketball team My Junior year, our high school had one of the best teams in the history of our school There were 9 seniors on the team who had played together for years. So when my senior year came along there was an expectation that…

JOHN 2:1-11 | GLORIFYING OBEDIENCE ILLUSTRATION : There are some Christmas presents that you receive as a kid that you never forget. One of those for me was the year I received a magician set. I remember it came in a big black box and inside it there were a variety of items for various magic tricks.…