Priorities
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...
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- 7 days ago
Fear Over Faith - [Isaiah 6]
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...
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- Aug 14
Security [Luke 12]
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...
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- Aug 6
Greed [Luke 12]
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...
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- Jul 22
Peacemakers [Ephesians 4]
One of my least favorite seasons in life is election season. Before I became a pastor, I never realized how challenging it would be -...
- Jul 15
Pure In Heart
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...
- Jul 1
Hunger and Thirst
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...
- Jun 16
Mourn
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...
- Jun 2
Backwards
Sermon Text - 06.02.2024 I heard a phrase this last week - it was one of those totally random things where you just have to stop and...
- May 21
A Life Of Surrender - Philippians 3
Jesus Plus Nothing - 05.19.2024 Couple years back there was this amazing story that came out about a man named Phil Vischer. For those...
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- May 13
The Mentality [Philippians 1-2]
A couple of weeks ago, before my family moved to Grand Rapids - I had started working at this church, but I was still commuting about 2...
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- May 6
I Don't Have Much Hope [Hebrews 11]
In the book of Genesis, in the very beginning of the bible, there’s a story about two people - Adam and Eve, and they were in a garden....
- Apr 29
I Am Completely Alone [Psalm 23:4]
Some of you already know this - but when I became the pastor here at Center Church, we were still in the process of selling our house and...
- Apr 29
I Can't Slow Down
[Psalm 23:2] A long time back, Princeton University did an experiment with seminary students to prove that when we are rushed, we...
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- Apr 1
I Lack [John 10]
03.31.2024 - I Am Not Enough [John 10 and Psalm 23:1] To get us started this morning, I want to show you two different headlines. First,...
- Mar 25
Legacy (2 Timothy 1)
Have you ever left an “accidental” legacy? I remember one time, I was a college student doing youth ministry at my home church in the...
- Mar 10
How Do I... Embrace My Calling? [Ephesians 4]
Click HERE for the Sermon Notes.. A long time ago there was a really famous evangelist and speaker named Dwight L Moody, who worked...
- Feb 11
For Thine Is The Kingdom - Mark 4:21-34
Click HERE for the notes.. I know some people think of me as the “young” pastor - but I am old enough to remember the invention of the...
- Feb 8
Temptation [Hebrews 2:17-18]
Click HERE for the sermon notes.. In the book “Finding Men for Christ” George Dempster tells a story about his ministry from the 1920’s...
- Jan 11
Our Father In Heaven. [Matthew 6]
Click HERE for the Sermon Notes.. When I was a kid, I understood prayer as a bit of a performance. I’ll never forget, my dad's a...
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