May 6, 2018 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes On April of 1818, a businessman by the name of Henry Brooks opened up a clothing store on St. Catherine Street in Manhattan. Henry Brooks’ simple goal was trying to make clothes for businessmen. Money and businessmen were moving into lower Manhattan, and Henry Brooks found this […]
Learning how to tie my shoes…again!
Many years ago, I was getting ready for some of the most difficult military training in my Army career. This military training has a high attrition rate. The physical difficulty was extreme, and there was a high degree of technical skills necessary to succeed. In order to prepare my body for the challenges that I […]
Risk Takers: Gideon
April 29, 2018 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes When you get a wrong call on your cell phone, how many of you hang on and try to explain to them that they got the wrong number? How many of you just flat out hang up and don’t even give him the time of the day […]
Going “against all odds”
William Shakespeare was a wizard with words. He is thought to have created the phrase “against all odds”. [1] In fact, it’s assumed that Shakespeare invented the word “odds” to refer to the probability of success. The first printed form of the word was found in Shakespeare’s play Henry IV. “Yet this before my father’s […]
Risk Takers: Caleb
April 22, 2018 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes What does it mean to have a mountain-moving faith? How many of you have ever used that phrase “move mountains” to describe something that’s like an insurmountable obstacle? How many of you have used that phrase before? Did you know that Jesus coined the phrase “moving mountains”? […]
Playing in the dirt or playing God?
When you drive on an interstate in America, you’re actually driving across one of the greatest construction projects in human history. The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways started off as a simple idea in the mind of Pres. Eisenhower and became one of the largest, most costly, and longest construction […]
Risk Takers: Abraham
April 15, 2018 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes I. Jesus specializes in the impossible If you’re in the middle of something right now where it’s just not good at all, no matter which way you go next, keep this in mind: Jesus specializes in those kinds of circumstances. We’re going to start in the Bible […]
Forced to choose between marriage and making a living
How do you balance between the responsibilities at work and responsibilities at home? This is the third most asked question I’ve ever received. (Perhaps I’ll cover the two more often asked questions in other blogs in the future.) I have to be honest; this is a hard question with no easy answers. Every hard-working person […]
Risk Takers: Risk It All
April 8, 2018 Pastor Jeff Struecker Sermon Notes Let’s talk about what it takes to risk it all. In the early 1900’s, before the Industrial Revolution, almost all of America’s wealth was tied up in the land. If you owned a piece of property, that wasn’t just your fortune, but your family’s future belonged to […]