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All you need is what? Love. Is that what you heard after reading last week’s post? I can see how you might answer it that way. You can check it out here if you did not read it last week. Here is how last week’s post ended: Jesus tells us: “I give you a new Read More

I had the treat the other night of watching a movie with “my girls”. This would include my lovely wife and three beautiful daughters. We watched Bruce Willis in the movie The Kid. If you have not seen it, here is a quick summary. Bruce plays a guy who is turning 40 and who is Read More

Merriam-Webster gives a quick definition of doctrine as “a set of ideas or beliefs that are taught or believed to be true”. Do you go to church? If yes, do you know the doctrine of the church where you attend? Do you know the “set of ideas or beliefs” that set the foundation of who Read More

Do you know? Do you know what you can do so that God will love you more? Go ahead, I will wait a minute for you to make your list. Maybe it is yelling less at your kids. Maybe it is making sure your kids behave a little better in church. Oh, wait, I know. Read More

I was at a swim meet Sunday afternoon. It was a great meet, because I was watching my son do his very best. He was about half way through his events and getting personal bests in each event. So I could either start to conclude that he was having a great day and would continue to Read More

I had this crazy thought the other night. I wondered what God thinks about. This could probably get me in a lot of trouble, but might he say, “If they only knew…if they only knew what could have been.” Does He spend any time thinking about this? How many times could God have used that Read More

Due to the weather conditions this morning, we are cancelling the 10:30 am service at Barnitz.

Emotions are everywhere. We all have them. They impact us all. We started a sermon series last Sunday looking at the book of Jonah. Talk about emotions. The story of Jonah is filled with many different emotions. There is confusion. There is anger. There is joy. There is depression. There is forgiveness. Here is a Read More

What are we going to do with it? Yes, I am referring to the song if you know it. It has been in my head over this last week.  Why you ask? Well, it is because we have been talking about love, specifically God’s love. We looked at two passages in particular: God so loved Read More

We have spent a number of blogs talking about “getting out of the way.” Here are the first couple of lines from a post a few weeks ago, “What Jesus Wants”: We left last week’s post with the question: “How am I in the way?” You can read the post here. Is it possible for Read More