Modern Issues and Lying – By Weston Ely
Posted April 29th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
This past Sunday, we looked at Jesus’ moral teaching about taking oaths. The root of his teaching exposes our tendency to be dishonest. I used four categories to classify the reasons that we lie (Apathetic lies, Cowardly lies, Manipulative lies, and Malevolent lies). I also proposed that loving God and loving others is a formula […]
Posted in Church Life and Issues, Sermon Thoughts, Suggested Resources, Theological issues
Making sense of persecution
Posted March 28th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
Trying to make sense of a world where multitudes of people whoa re serving God suffer persecution as a result can be pretty tough. We can wonder where God is and what he is doing when hearing of followers of Jesus who are jailed, have their children taken away, or are killed for their faith. […]
Posted in Living the Gospel, Sermon Thoughts
Cindy Winters on the Early Show
Posted March 24th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
I mentioned that the wife of the pastor who was killed during a church service in Maryville, IL two weeks ago during the service this past Sunday. This is a video of Cindy Winters, wife of Fred Winters in an interview about the events, and her forgiveness of the man who killed her husband.
Posted in Living the Gospel, Sermon Thoughts, Suggested Resources
Sermon on the Mount – resources
Posted February 28th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
With every sermon series, I want to throw out a Bibliography of resources I will be using, so that those of you who would like to do further study will have some options. Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount: And His Confrontation with the World by D. A. Carson – Fairly deep and theological dealing expositionally […]
Posted in Sermon Thoughts, Suggested Resources
Series on the Sermon on the Mount
Posted February 28th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
We’re starting a new series in the morning at Genesis on the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7. Our title for the series is Red Letters, primarily because this section of Scripture is some of the most concise and clear teaching from Jesus in the Bible. During the series, we will discover what Jesus […]
Posted in Church Life and Issues, Sermon Thoughts
