The Simpleton Blog

How do we build a life that will last?  So many times we experience victory in life, but then something happens and completely wipes out...

Manuscript of Christmas Eve sermon

Hosea and Galatians 3:23-29 I’m starting to believe that Love is one of the more useless words in the English language. Don’t get me...

Back in the 1950’s there was a professor at John Hopkins University name Curt Richter who did some famous experiments. Now I’ll warn you,...

I want to begin this morning with a very simple question - What do you long for?  In this holiday season, do you long for happiness? Or...

As some of you already know we are on week 2 of our little three week series called Election Recovery Guide. We’re not going to talk...

Well - I suppose to start this morning we should talk about the elephant in the room. [painfully long pause] And the donkey. And the...

This morning I’d like to open up with a little game I’m going to call “blast from the past”. I’m going to throw a couple of brand names...

Good morning. Today I want to start by telling you a little story about this guy (put a picture of the parrot on the screen) . This is...

Is trust really trust when we’ve got a back-up plan? There was once a young boy who went hiking with his father. The boy was all over the...

Did you ever have a plan in your head for how things are supposed to go - and then they don’t go that way? When I was in seminary, and I...

Have you ever wondered how much of you is you? Or how much of you is influenced and created by the people around you? I remember when...

You know - we’ve been doing this series on money and following God this past month - and this is what I hope to be true about myself and...

I wanted to start this morning with a simple question. What do you want your life to be for? For example, what do you want the top line...

08.11.2024 - Sermon Manuscript Once upon a time there was a man named Bob. Bob was a saver, and very tight with his money. He was NOT a...

A long time ago there was this guy named John Wesley - he was a preacher in England. And something happened to him one day that totally...

One of my least favorite seasons in life is election season. Before I became a pastor, I never realized how challenging it would be -...

Couple of weeks ago, I was mowing my lawn. And as some of you know - I live up in Grand Rapids, and we’re sort of downtown-ish, north of...

Sermon Text - 06.30.2024 Today I want to start out with a little bit of a confession. One of my greatest weaknesses, one of my secret...

Sermon Text - 06.16.2024 Years ago I was chatting with a pastor buddy of mine and we were talking about funerals. And he said one of his...