Sermon Notes & Videos
2023-03-17 | Matthew 17 | Climb Your Mountains
Sermon Notes | Caracas, Venezuela is nestled in a valley, surrounded by mountains. As a Boy Scout, I was involved in some physical training that included excursions in [...]
2023-03-10 | Matthew 16 | Sign me up
Sermon Notes | We are a few months into the new calendar year, but it’s not so distant that you don’t remember that feeling. You know, that “New [...]
2023-03-03 | Matthew 14-15 | May I borrow Your Handkerchief
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes | First you listen and learn; then you watch what you’ve learned in action; then you do it with the person from whom [...]
2023-02-24 | Matthew 13 | All That Will Be Already Is
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes | Do you enjoy riddles? They can be both fun and frustrating, and most people find them entertaining, as long as the answer [...]
2023-02-17 | Matthew 12 | Religionship or Relationship
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes | People love systems and procedures. There is nothing inherently wrong with that. In fact, God designed humans with a built-in recording system, [...]
2023-02-10 | Matthew 11 | Pillows of Doubt
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes How long have you identified yourself as a believer, a child of God, a Christian? One month? One Year? Five years? Or, five minutes? I [...]
2023-02-03 | Matthew 10 | Practicum
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes | “Let My people go!” Those words were made famous when Moses echoed the heart of God in the presence of an obstinate [...]
2023-01-27 | Matthew 8-9 | Let the Dead Bury the Dead
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes | Water finds the path of least resistance. Want proof? Just place a barrier into any stream, and the water will simply find [...]
2023-01-20 | Matthew 7 | Six Degrees of Separation
Weekly Scripture | Sermon Notes | I don’t decide what is true; I just report it. And quite frankly, it does not matter if you like it or [...]
2023-01-13 | Matthew 6 | Tomorrow Never Comes
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes | Reckless Abandon… that’s what comes to mind. If you knew this was all you had, this one last day, twenty-four hours, how [...]
2023-01-06 | Matthew 5 | On Collision Course
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes | If I say “Law,” you most likely recoil. Humans don’t really like rules and regulations and laws. Let’s be honest, it’s much [...]
2022-12-30 | Matthew 3-4 | Time Never Fails
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes | “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” There are so many critical [...]
2022-12-23 | Matthew 1-2 | Best Supporting Actor
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes | They had reached the edge of the river. On the other side lived all the promises of the Father. All they had [...]
2022-12-16 | Joshua 23-24 | Interspecies Marriage
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes | You feel like you’re all in. You use all the words and you sport the tidy little package called modern Christianity. You [...]
2022-12-09 | Joshua 20-22 | Pick a Vowel
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes | It’s encouraging when God’s people get it right. It doesn’t happen very often—unfortunately. In fact, it’s more common in biblical narratives to [...]
2022-12-02 | Joshua 16-19 | Apostolic Footprints
WeeklyScriptures | Sermon Notes | He has done so much for you already. Are you permitted to feel dissatisfied? I guess it depends on why? There is a [...]
2022-11-25 | Joshua 12-15 | The Promise Remains
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes | Why do you call me Lord and not do things that I say? It’s a great question! In modern vernacular we might [...]
2022-11-18 | Joshua 9-11 | A Relaxed Voice
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes | I could not think of a better way to introduce this subject than to pepper you with a spray of soundbites. Generally [...]
2022-11-11 | Joshua 7-8 | Et tu, Joshua?
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes | Friends don’t do that. It’s one of those labels that has been used and abused, like love. I love my car; I [...]
2022-11-04 | Joshua 5-6 | Spiritual Violence
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes | I have no doubt that the words themselves will invoke strong emotions, and you may not like them. They often settle in [...]
2022-10-28 | Joshua 1-4 | Baptism on Dry Ground
Weekly Scriptures | Sermon Notes | A herald is going out to the Church calling all Christians to radical, grace-empowered, faith-based obedience—obedience to God that will overtake every [...]