by Tim Stockton | Aug 27, 2017 | Sermon
I grew up in a small Pentecostal church in eastern Oregon and the people we went to church with became very much like my extended family. We spent a lot of time with our church family. We went to church three times a week, sometimes four, Sunday mornings &...
by Tim Stockton | Aug 20, 2017 | Sermon
I was reminded this week by a colleague that prophetic preachers approach both sermon-writing and ministries with the Bible in one hand, and the newspaper, or in my case, the smartphone, in the other. I mean, otherwise, we are too tempted to preach feel-good messages...
by Tim Stockton | Jul 9, 2017 | Sermon
A man was traveling on a ship when it sank in the ocean. He managed to survive, and made a small raft of some of the ship’s cargo and eventually drifted to a deserted island. He built a little shelter and lived on what little food he had been able to salvage from the...
by Tim Stockton | Jul 2, 2017 | Sermon
When I was a child, my family got the most adorable blonde lab puppy. He was fearless! The kitchen in the house where I grew up was a little lower than the rest of the house, and you had to step down just 1⁄2 a step to go into the kitchen. And that little puppy just...
by Tim Stockton | Jun 25, 2017 | Sermon
I saw a movie recently about a pair of corporate spies who are hired by different companies to, well, spy on each other, so that these companies could outsmart their competitors. Somewhere along the line, the two spies figure out who the other one is, fall in love...
by Tim Stockton | Jun 18, 2017 | Sermon
In 2002, Steven Spielberg made a movie called “Catch me if you can” about the amazing story of a man named Frank W. Abagnale. At the age of 16, Abagnale’s parents divorced and he was so devastated by it that he ran away from home. Click on 20170618 Running Away from...
