Dying to Live: A Sermon
Preached on Sunday, September 18, 2016 at First Baptist Church, Jefferson City, Missouri. Click here to listen to the audio. Luke 9:18-27 We are launching a new sermon series today titled “Because of Christ, everything has changed.” This series is the second in a series of sermons related to our Setting Sail visioning process. Over the past two years we have prayed and dreamed together about what God is calling us to be and do and now we are launching out in faith and in the power of the Holy Spirit, setting sail in obedience and anticipation of God’s dreams for us. Today we begin our focus on Life-Changing Faith.…
From Surviving to Thriving Spiritually
The following is my sermon from Sunday, January 31, 2016, at First Baptist Church, Jefferson City, Missouri. We concluded a four week series on Overcoming Spiritual Burnout. You can read below or listen here. Text: Acts 18:5-11; Romans 12:11-12 Survivor. It’s not just a reality show on television. Most of us today feel like we are trying to survive. And to be honest, we feel like we’re failing at it. One of my favorite Christian bloggers, Jen Hatmaker, tapped into this feeling a couple of years ago with a blog she wrote about being the worst end of school mom ever. I want to share a small part of that…