JOHN 1:40-51 | I WANT THAT ILLUSTRATION : When we go to the store with my kids there is a common statement the comes from the lips of my kids: I want that. They see the toys or the treats or the gum and they want it. And the truth is, very little changes as we get older. In your teen years it’s “I want…

JOHN 1:29-34 | THIS IS MY PURPOSE ME ILLUSTRATION : Things are created with a purpose. A basketball is created with a purpose A guitar is created with a purpose A pen is created with a purpose Now you can use these things that were created for other purposes than what they were created for. You can kick…

JOHN 1:24-28 | BAPTISM ISN’T ENOUGH ILLUSTRATION : Have you ever been confused before? If you’re married here today, you understand what that feels like. If you aren’t married… just you wait. When I was a senior in high school I had to take a math credit. I didn’t want to take calculus… the teacher that…

TEXT: ROMANS 1:19-25 | ARE YOU WORSHIPPING THE CREATOR ILLUSTRATION : We are not gardeners. But in an attempt to play pretend, this year I build raised bed garden boxes and put a fence around it to keep the animals out in an attempt to possibly grow and produce some fruit and vegetables. As we were filling…

JOHN 1:15-18 | OVERCOME BY JESUS ILLUSTRATION : I loved basketball in high school It was my passion. I had the privilege of playing on my high school basketball team as the starting point guard at Owen Valley High School in Spencer, IN We were the Patriots, and growing up in a small town, Friday nights…

JOHN 1:14 b | FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH ILLUSTRATION : Just a couple weeks back we had wrapped up with family camp, but before we headed out the kids wanted to take one final walk up into the mountains to show us some things. There was just one problem, we had to cross the creek to get there. Now I have…

JOHN 1:14 b | BEHOLD THE GLORY ILLUSTRATION : Have you ever been uncomfortable? Hopefully not this morning! There are some places where I just naturally feel uncomfortable. Airplanes The back seat of a car A few years back I knew that I was going to be going hunting with Rick Price. I had bought a tent…

JOHN 1:14 a | JESUS UNDERSTANDS And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. ILLUSTRATION : When Tressa and I got married, we went on our honeymoon to Orlando, FL. And the reason that we went there…