by Tim Stockton | Mar 13, 2017 | Sermon
Whenever we go into new situations, we tend to carry with us the expectations of our past experiences, even when we know, or at least should know, that they will be very different. For example, a business traveler to Mexico got quite the shock when he experienced the...
by Tim Stockton | Mar 5, 2017 | Sermon
When I was a kid, we had a big console style TV that was the center of our living room experience. And we had two remote controls—me, and my brother! I remember dad telling us to go stand at the TV while he decided what we were going to watch, and he’d say, change it,...
by Tim Stockton | Feb 27, 2017 | Sermon
Have you ever had a mountaintop experience? Have you ever felt so close to God that you could feel God’s presence or hear God’s voice? Have you had a defining moment? Perhaps it was a conversion experience, or something else. Click on 20170226 Transfiguration to...
by Tim Stockton | Feb 19, 2017 | Sermon
Is heaven for real? In the movie Heaven is for Real, filmmakers invite us to consider that question. The movie is based on the book by the same name, where Todd Burpo tells the story of his son Colton’s self-proclaimed visit to heaven. Colton was three when a ruptured...
by Tim Stockton | Feb 15, 2017 | Sermon
It was July, and a pastor was brand new to her church. After the service, everyone agreed she had preached an excellent sermon. The next week, she preached again, and a few people noticed that her sermon sounded a little bit like her first sermon. The third week,...
by Tim Stockton | Feb 4, 2017 | Sermon
In 1981, Harold Kushner wrote a book called “When Bad Things Happen to Good People.”1 Kushner was writing an answer to his own personal tragic story. His son Aaron was diagnosed with a rare life robbing, early aging disease when he was three, and he died two days...