Over the past month I’ve seen a worldwide epidemic rear its ugly head three different times. The first was at our graduate recognition service at Mt Vernon. The graduating seniors had an opportunity to thank their parents, and a good number of them said something to the effect of, “I’d like to thank my mom for always being there for me. I knew it was tough raising me on your own . . .” The following week I spent a... Read more
Yesterday we held the funeral service for Eddy Doyle. Here is the message I shared with the family and friends: Today we’re here to celebrate a beautiful life lived to the full and a legacy that will carry on with his family and friends long after we leave this place. Tracy and I started talking about this funeral the day before Eddy passed. Eddy had told Tracy just a few days prior, “I’m ready to go home, I’m just not ready... Read more
Here’s the third sermon in our summer series on the book of Acts: https://vimeo.com/131006755 Read more
It’s almost Father’s Day, an occasion to mark and celebrate the contribution that your own father has made to your life. Personally, if I looked at the true “definition” of what Father’s Day is, I wouldn’t be celebrating very much. My father has never made a meaningful contribution to my life. He divorced my mom when I was a baby. Even though we lived in the same small town while I was growing up, he barely made any effort to... Read more
Unless you lived under a rock the past 48 hours, your news world has been saturated with tragedy coming out of Charleston, South Carolina. Now that the initial shock and horror is beginning to wear off, how can we begin to make sense of this senseless act of violence? Here are four things to remember: No explanation can ever be sufficient when the loss is personal. Acts of violence that you see on a news report are just unfortunate statistics. But the... Read more
Whether you stand behind a pulpit or not, every believer has a message to preach. What’s the most powerful sermon you could ever preach? Watch the short video below to find out: https://vimeo.com/130330760 Read more
What does it look like when the Holy Spirit shows up in power in a church? ‘Spirit-filled’ is a buzz word that energizes some denominations while sending others into a tizzy. Rather than rehash modern interpretations, I want to look at a beautiful description of the Spirit-filled church in Acts 2 and highlight seven identifying marks. 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the... Read more
In a skeptical world, how can we know that Jesus truly was the son of God? Watch this short sermon clip to hear one of the greatest proofs of the divinity of Jesus: https://vimeo.com/130331540 Read more
The Bible says on several occasions to be ‘filled with the Spirit,’ but what does that mean? Yesterday at Mt Vernon I used the illustration of the wind filling the sails of an ancient sailing vessel. When the wind fills the sail, the boat has power (Acts 1:8) to move in the direction that the wind is blowing. It’s not our job to determine which way we want the wind to blow, but to adjust our sails to the direction... Read more
Watch the video below to catch week two in our series through the book of Acts. https://vimeo.com/130251681 Read more
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