Longing for Meaning
November 28, 2021 | “Longing for Meaning” | Luke 2: 25-38
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Confidence
July 18 | “Confidence” | Psalm 139
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Lessons from the Road: The Last Place You Look
April 11 | “The Last Place You Look” | Luke 24: 13-24
The first in a three-part series on having gospel conversations. In the first section of this narrative from Luke, Jesus models for us three things to remember when having a gospel conversation.
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The New Guy
Monday surveyed the room with suspicion as he sipped his morning coffee.
“Hey. Who’s that guy?”
“What guy?” Wednesday asked.
“Over there, the one everybody’s talking to.” Monday pointed across the room to a man in jeans and a t-shirt leaning against the water cooler.
“Oh, the new guy.”
“New guy? Why haven’t I seen him before?”
“I don’t know,” Wednesday said. “He’s not here much. Comes in late, leaves early. You know how it is.”
“No,” said Monday. “I don’t, actually. What’s his name?”
“Friday.”
Read the full story on LitUp.
Vision Series: Stewardship of Self
How do we live in the world and not be of the world? Daniel and the exiles to Babylon have some helpful lessons for us in Daniel 1:8-16.
Watch the whole series: Vision 2020
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Amos: God Cares
Amos, the farmer-turned-prophet, preached during a time of surging national optimism: business was booming, and boundaries were growing. But Amos saw through the façade and preached against the greed, hypocrisy, and false worship. As our world comes to grips with a pandemic that has devastated booming economies, will we go back to putting our hope in ourselves or will we place our hope in God?
Watch the whole series: God Speaks
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Digging Up Bones
DANGER
DO NOT ENTER
Normally, the stenciled warnings nailed to every other tree would have sent Nathan Shields walking away. Not tonight. Behind him, his Toyota stood guard on the shoulder of the road. Shouldn’t he hide it somewhere? He pulled his phone from his pocket and cursed. No time.
He was late, but that was hardly his fault.
“Hurry,” Kevin had said. “And bring a shovel.”
“Right now? It’s a four-hour drive.” After a long day of babysitting middle-school musicians, Nathan wanted to veg on his couch, maybe get lost in a little Bob Ross or “I Love Lucy.” No more true crime dramas, though. Those were starting to freak him out. He was convinced half the kids in his fifth-period ensemble were serial killers in a state of incubation. And not just the drummers and tuba players. That was the problem with serial killers, they were the ones you’d least expect.
“It’s more like four-and-a-half,” Kevin had said. “And take the back road. There’s a game tonight. Cops will be everywhere. Remember, you owe me.”
Read the full story at Mystery Weekly or pick up their November 2019 issue on Amazon.
The Once and Future King
The angel tells Mary not just that she will bear a holy Child but that he will sit on the throne of his father David and that the reign of his kingdom will have no end (Luke 1:32-33). Jesus wasn’t born in some safe and sanitized holiday scene, but in a war zone in which He died with a sign over his head which read, “King of the Jews.”
Watch the whole series: Come Lord Jesus
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Understanding Present Heaven
“Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope…encourage each other with these words.” Much of our confusion about heaven stems from our understanding about the present and future nature of heaven. While the intermediate or present heaven is a wonderful place, the present heaven is not where we will live forever: we are destined for eternal life as resurrected beings on a resurrected earth.
Watch the full series, Destination: Eternity.
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Intelligent Life
Neil was coloring around the coffee stains on a worn manila folder when Harold shouted his name.
“Anderson. Get in here.”
Dropping the pen, Neil sighed and rose from his chair, not yet warm at 8:15 AM. He counted the floor tiles en route to the corner office. The number never changed, but the walk seemed longer each time he made it.
“Morning, Harold,” Neil said as he walked in.
“Where are we on P732?” a lanky man asked with a growl honed by years of cigarettes and chronic post-nasal drip. “Bill in Environmental just told me they finished their work on it two weeks ago.”
“I know,” Neil said. “I have their numbers.”
“So, what’s the problem?” Harold sneezed into a handkerchief, which he folded and drug across his nose once more before placing it back in his pocket. “I mean, it’s a simple assessment, Neil. I’m not asking you to cure syphilis.” He stood abruptly and began to pace.
The way Harold buried his hands in his pockets as he walked around the room, Neil wondered if his boss might actually need that cure. Eradicating an STD was probably easier than delivering that report. There was nothing simple about it.
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