MOTIVATE How many of you have written or received a love letter? Most of us have done one or the other, and if not, you at least wish you had received one. Also, at this moment, husbands who have written letters are smiling thinking they have scored points but the wives are thinking, “That was…
Tag: 2 Peter
People Of Promise: Falsehood (2 Peter 2)
MOTIVATE Apples are a staple fruit and corn a staple vegetable. When you can pick your own apples off a tree, or corn from a stalk rather than purchase from store, somehow, they taste even better! Yet have you ever gone apple picking and bit into one, and found a worm? Gross right?!? How does…
People of Promise (2 Peter 1:16-21)
MOTIVATE This week I had a moving and theological conversation with a 6th grader who is nearing baptism with us(!). You might think it had to do with VBS, but it did not. Instead, this was with a family who has attended our church for several years. The child has been part of our Children’s…
People Of Promise: Confidence (2 Peter 1:3-15)
MOTIVATE Unfortunately, our failures often outweigh and outlive our accomplishments. People like to promote juicy scandals more than our success. Consider Richard Nixon with Watergate scandal. Remember Monica Lewinsky. Think back to Tonya Harding figure skater conspired attack on Nancy Kerrigan. Chris Weber famed bball player who called timeout when team had none, and caused…