Meetings Resume January 9!
Starting Sunday, January 9, 2022, we will resume our weekly Recovery Bible Study, which focuses on the Seven Commands of Jesus. The time and location will be the same as Read More
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Meetings Resume!
We’ve been waiting a long time for this: we’re resuming face-to-face meetings! Thursday, 6:30 pm (meeting now): Baptist Youth Center, 700 W. Market St. (about a half mile west Read More
Healing the Hopeless
This sermon, preached via Zoom for Immanuel Mennonite Church, uses the story of the Gerasene Demoniac to describe the nature of addiction, the challenges to Church faces in addressing it, Read More
Is God Listening?
With everything going on in our lives and in the world, we may wonder of God is listening to our prayers. Malachi 3:1-7 offers a challenging look at this question.
The Problem with Religion
Religion is powerful. It has justified and motivated wars that have killed millions of people. And it has moved people to great social change, from nonviolent movements like the abolition Read More
Miracles Among Us?
Do you see miracles in the world? I do. Every person who recovers from addiction is evidence of God’s work in the world. That may be the best reason why Read More
Our Damascus Road
This short talk asks, “Why is life so hard?” The answer considers Paul’s experience on the Damascus Road, where this man with confidence and authority was reduced to helplessness so Read More
How Do We Heal?
This short talk considers the bleeding woman in Mark 5, and what the Gospel tells us about how we heal.
When the World Fails: Addiction and the Church
What is addiction? How can the Church help? Should the Church help? The answer is yes, and there are some good reasons why.
Powerless… Without God
Me: Spirit of addiction, I renounce you. Get out in the name of Jesus Christ. Spirit: You can’t renounce me, you’re an addict. Me: Yes, I can, because with God Read More