September 27, 2015 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes Today is the grand finale of our study through the book of Ecclesiastes. If you like many of the pastors in our church, have been praying diligently for us to have the privilege of seeing somebody go through the waters of baptism then when you watched that […]
Reflections of a Meaningless Life
Here are some questions that many people never get around to asking- What am I living for? What is the reason for my life? What does a well lived life look like? It’s unfortunate many people never ask these questions. Without answering these questions your life doesn’t take on a specific direction. Without asking the big […]
Ecclesiastes Twelve:1-7
Pastor Jeff Struecker September 20, 2015 Sermon Notes Life is like a journey and this journey has lots of different stages. We are going to break this journey down into three very specific stages. Basically you have the early stage of life when you have a lot of energy and you probably have a lot […]
Cashing in on the Golden Years
Did you ever wonder why they call them “the Golden years”? It certainly can’t mean that you have more gold during your older years than your early years. So what makes them “golden”? What makes getting older so great anyway? If you look around our society, you’ll get the wrong impression. We tend to value […]
Ecclesiastes Eleven
September 13, 2015 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes The giant picture of the world on the screen is becoming bigger and bigger because as we study through the book of Ecclesiastes our worldview is getting bigger. Ecclesiastes is actually a book about worldview. We started more than four months ago a Wednesday night study that […]
Ecclesiastes Nine:17-Ten:20
Pastor Jeff Struecker September 6, 2015 Sermon Notes We’re studying through the book of Ecclesiastes. Today is going to sound a lot like what we studied just a few weeks ago in Ecclesiastes chapter eight. If you were here, I told you these seem an awful lot like just random sayings. However, if you pay […]
Digging Ditches with a Spoon
Anyone that has ever busted a knuckle trying to remove a rusty bolt with an old set of pliers knows the value of having the right tool. Having the right tool is the lifeblood of a mechanic’s job. Any mechanic will tell you, it’s not good enough just to have the right tool- you got […]
Ecclesiastes Nine:7-16
Pastor Frank Bowden August 30, 2015 Sermon Notes For the past several months we’ve been systematically studying through the book of Ecclesiastes. As you are reading this book it can become really frustrating really fast because Ecclesiastes tends to rub you raw in a way like an open wound. Here’s what I mean by that. […]
Run Hard Despite the Obstacles
I’ve wondered what kind of sicko invented the first hurdles event in Track and Field? Think about it- someone decided that running as fast as humanly possible wasn’t tough enough, let’s put some obstacles in front of the runner and see what happens. I decided to do a little research, here’s what I learned. Hurdling […]
Ecclesiastes Nine:1-6
August 23, 2015 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes If God gave you one do over in life, would you take it? Think about all of the mistakes that you’ve made. If you’re like me, you’ve probably made a lot of them. Think about the stuff that you said that you really wish you could get […]