In my sermon Sunday I mentioned a program that I have on every computer in my house called X3watch (http://x3watch.com/x3watchfree.html). It’s an accountability program for pornography. You can set up who you want to have it email a report of your computer activity to each week. I have it going to my wife. This doesn’t [...]
So, for my sermon on Sunday, I’ve been studying 1 Corinthians 7:1-7. I have found some really great stuff on the passage that really brought it into clarity for me. I decided to paraphrase the passage to help me as I thought through how to preach it. I felt like the paraphrase was really helpful. [...]
1 Peter 3:7 (for the gents, from my sermon this week) Considerate & respectful (honor) ¬ Finds practical ways to show love to his wife ¬ Speaks kind loving words ¬ Slow to Anger, quick to listen ¬ Seeks to become a leader worth following ¬ Spends quality time investing in his wife Without being [...]
Watching Blues Clues with Peter while working on a sermon – I wonder how that’s going to affect Sunday…
While doing some research for an upcoming sermon, I found this article on how unique Christ is. It’s a scholarly type of article so it’s pretty heady, but it takes a serious look at the accusation that Christianity stole it’s material from other religions…
I was studying today for a sermon in a few weeks and ran across this verse, 1 Corinthians 15:24, “Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.” So many of us come to Jesus and have things that we [...]
This month we’ve been preaching on ReThinking Evangelism. I received the following email Sunday when I got home! God is cool! (I changed some of the details to provide anonymity) “KENT!!! YOUR SERMON PREDICTED SOMETHING THAT JUST HAPPENED!!! My friend, called me up she is studying Christianity, honestly wants to know more (although she still [...]
This week we begin our series Kiss It! We will be looking at how to make your relationships solid and protect them from having to “Kiss It” goodbye (relationally). Any who, this week we are tackling the idea of selfishness in relationship. I was wondering if any of you out in the blogosphere had anything [...]
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Already I can’t sleep as I think about our launch Sunday! Jenni and I laid down to take a nap today (after doing some yard work) and all I could think about was next Sunday and what God is going to do! As I think about it, I just keep asking Him to show up. [...]