March 26, 2017 Pastor Frank Bowden Sermon Notes If I were to ask you, what is the greatest human tragedy? How would you answer that question? Would you say it’s the tragedy that caused the most suffering, like the use of slavery? According to endslaverynow.org, a nonprofit partner of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, […]
When a good man stumbles
It’s frustrating when you break a tool in your workshop. Most of us have been working away diligently in the backyard only to have a tool break when you needed it most. The frustration is even greater when you never imagined the tools that you were using would break on you. Deep in the back of […]
The Innocent Charged – Luke 23:1-25
March 19, 2017 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes On New Year’s Day 1961 a recording band went into the studios of Decca records. They were trying to land a record contract. I’m going to assume that most of us in this room don’t have a record from Decca records. Mike Smith was an A&R representative […]
Performing for the wrong crowd
I want you to imagine your embarrassment if you showed up before an opera crowd dressed to perform a ballet. (If you’re like me, you can’t even imagine how ridiculous you would looked dressed for a ballet – but work with me here.) Let’s say you spent months practicing for this spectacular ballet performance. You trained your body […]
The Trial of the King – Luke 22:63-71
March 12, 2017 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes If this is your first Sunday in church or if you’re just reading the Bible for the first time, you have an advantage on most of us today. If you’re like me, you’ve heard the story that we’re about the study from the book of Luke today […]
A view from the jury box in a murder trial
If you’ve never been on jury duty before let me tell you how it usually goes. First, you will be asked to fill out a summons. Next, you will go through an interview process. You will be given a panel number. Until you’re selected to serve on the jury you remain a number to the […]
Lament Over Our Sin – Luke 22:39-62
February 26, 2017 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes By almost any measure that you would use, Henry Ford’s first automobile was pretty much a failure. Henry Ford was 32 years old when he created the very first automobile in a little work shed out behind his house in Michigan. It was called the Quadricycle. The […]
I found something valuable at rock bottom
When I was a soldier in the US Army, I found something extremely valuable when I hit rock bottom in the winter of 1988. I was on a training mission at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah in late December 1988. This desert training was designed to push me to my physical and emotional limits. It was […]
Call to Holy War – Luke 22:31-38
February 19, 2017 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes We’re studying through the book of Luke and today we’re in chapter 22. Let’s say that you’re new to Christianity and you’re still trying to figure out what is it means to follow Jesus. If you started reading the Bible for the first time in your life […]
Going Into Battle Without a Gun
If I were to tell you a man went off to battle without a gun to protect himself, you would think he was crazy. This is what I thought when I first heard the story of Desmond Doss. Someone introduced me to Desmond’s story many years ago. They were familiar with this amazing man who […]