Various texts As part of my research for my sermon on hell this week, I went paintballing with the youth of the church (some of us were chronologically youthful and others emotionally youthful). If you are not familiar with the game of paintball, you get dressed up in coveralls and a protective helmet, get a…
Various texts One of my favorite Mark Twain books is Letters from the Earth. This is a book that was not permitted to be published until 1962, fifty-two years after his death, because his daughter thought the material represented a ādistorted view of her fatherās ideas and attitudesā. The first part of this book is…
I Corinthians 6:9-20 Last week I began our three-part series on sex with a look at the Biblical view of sex. This morning I want to examine what it is that makes sexual immorality so devastating. The scriptures are pretty clear about the consequences of sexual immorality. Hebrews 13:4 Marriage should be honored by all,…
Genesis 1:26-31; 2:19-25 Five years ago in October 2004 my oldest daughter Elizabeth married Matt. She had been living the past few years in an apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts with four other single women and her lease ran out at the end of August. Matt had an apartment in Lowell where they lived after they…
July 12, 2009 When I was in university and first exploring Christianity, I met for a few weeks with a Christian group on campus led by a guy named Ed. Ed had been a drummer in a rock band and had left the world of sex and drugs to follow Jesus. Ed with his long,…