As I was preparing for this last Sunday’s sermon, I ran across this article on early non-Christian source witnesses that is pretty interesting.  It outlines some of the more famous non-Christian accounts that reference Jesus as a real person along with the activities of early 1st century Christian.  Here is a separate article that gives credence to the historicity [...]
So, a week ago Sunday I nixed a sermon I was going to preach as a follow up to a sermon on forgiveness, and I promised I would write a blog post with the follow up. So, here it goes: Previously at EPIC: We had explored the idea that when we choose not to forgive, [...]
So, on Sunday we talked through the idea of why we don't always feel God… Here are the passages we went through with some questions to ask yourself about why you might not be feeling God like you used to… If you want to watch the sermon, you can click here http://epic4life.com/nature-response-series-seeds-8282011-2/… ———– ARE YOU OVERSENSATIONALIZING IT? "Jesus answered, [...]
I realize that some of you may have not been able to make it to my dad’s funeral – my mom had them record it. Â I am putting the audio up on here unedited – there will be a few sections you may want to fast forward through – namely the audio for the video [...]
Tomorrow I will preach the hardest sermon to preach of my life.  The sermon to honor my father at his Funeral.  I have to tell you, grief causes you to slip in-between moments where the loss seems unreal and moments where it feels almost too real.  I am praying for the power and strength to preach this [...]
Sermon done! Excited about this one, we are turning a corner into hope, and it feels good!
Well, I guess it’s time to start working on that sermon again… Need to get it wrapped up! Seems like I just did one last week? Weird… .
My bike is calling me home, but my sermon is calling me to my computer… Hmm, maybe I could mount a computer to my bike… Any of you engineers want to design that for me?
The answer is yes! Â While I was studying for an upcoming sermon I came across the following website: http://www.probe.org/site/c.fdKEIMNsEoG/b.4223639/k.567/Ancient_Evidence_for_Jesus_from_NonChristian_Sources.htm I wanted to pass this along because I think there is a sense in Christianity that the bible is the only reference we have to the existence of Jesus. Â It did great things for my faith [...]
-identify your personal warning signs – I know that I start collecting when I begin to get really mad about little things – this is a personal warning sign that I need to get course corrected -readjust expectations – If the best relationship in the world is a 10, and yours is at a -5, [...]
