"The Love of God"

Feb 17, 2019

John 3:16   I want to begin this morning by reciting part of an Aramaic poem.  This poem is titled, Akdamut, and is believed to have been written around 1050 by a Jewish Rabbi named Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai, who was a prayer leader in Worms, Germany.  (For those of you church historians out there, you might recall that Worms, Germany was where Marin Luther, the great Protestant Reformer, was called to renounce his 95 Thesis in 1591.)  The portion of the poem that I’m going to share with you was

"Nic at Night"

Feb 10, 2019

John 3:1-15   Who’s the most famous person you’ve ever met?  I want you to take a minute, get to know someone around you, and simply ask them that question.  Who’s the most famous person you’ve ever met?  Ok, let me hear from some of you. The most famous person I ever had the opportunity to spend some time with was President George W. Bush.  He wasn’t yet the POTUS, but was campaigning.  I was fresh out of college and I was working for a non-profit that was funded almost totally by a grant

"The Master and Worship"

Feb 03, 2019

John 2:12-25    Anybody here recognize the name “Speedy” Morris?  He was the head men’s basketball coach at LaSalle from 1986-2001.  Great guy . . . Great speaker and coach . . .  He turned that entire program around and took the Explorers to four straight NCAA Tournament appearances.  In the middle of all of that, one morning he was upstairs in the bathroom shaving and his wife hollered up the steps and said, “Speedy, Sports Illustrated is on the phone.”  Well, he got so excited that he cut