Tag: good news

To Obey is Better than Sacrifice

Which is better? To obey or to sacrifice? My son is at that age where he’s learning to drive. Maybe you remember what that was like, when you turned 16…



Jesus is Just Alright

Jesus is Just Alright? What do you think about when you think about Jesus? In the 1970’s the song, “Jesus is Just Alright,” was made famous by the Doobie Brothers….



Just As I Am

What’s the best news about the good news? I don’t know about you, but for a long time I thought I had to have it all together BEFORE I came…



The Good News as a Verb

In her amazing book entitled, Not Ashamed, Rev. Fleming Rutledge makes this profound statement: “It can’t be said too often: if the story of Jesus of Nazareth had ended with…



The Good News as Our Mission

Why are you here? This past week I was thinking about some of the good news stories I’ve been hearing. One of my favorites involves one of our members who…



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Good Friday

It’s Friday It’s Friday. It’s the day hope died on a cross. For the last three years, hope was on the rise. He wasn’t exactly like the Messiah anyone expected,…



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Surprised by Jesus

Some Good News Maybe you saw this past week that John Krasinski started a new YouTube channel dedicated to good news. He’s started a show called Some Good News with…



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There is Good News

And that’s the way it is. Some of you probably know the name, Walter Cronkite. He was an anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981). In the…



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A New Invitation

Why doesn’t everybody go to church? I remember one Sunday morning a few years ago, we got up, got everybody dressed and ready for church. We headed out to get…



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100 Years from Now

A Visit from Your Past Self? Ron Mallett is an astrophysicist who has dedicated much of his adult life to the notion that time travel is possible. He’s the real-life…