Music. Songs. Singing. There is something about music which moves us in ways little or nothing else can do. Think of The Ohio State fight song; the lyrics alone may move some one a little, but combined with the music and you can have a whole lot of people energized! People who follow Christ are […]
We’ve all are likely getting tired of hearing how “unprecedented” the times are. Pastor Jeff takes us into the Old Testament book of Habakkuk where we see that, “No, Times like ours have been around for a long, long time.” The sermon was a good reminder that God is at work on His timeline, not […]
There’s a quote attributed to Winston Churchill: “If you’re going through hell, don’t stop. Keep going.” While this quote might not be exactly Biblical, Pastor Jeff’s sermon suggests that believers should do somewhat the same when, not if, we experience trials, or testing, or hard times, or suffering. The Bible teaches that we should expect […]
In today’s sermon Pastor Jeff pulls together events from Genesis and Revelation with a text out of The Acts of the Apostles. What an amazing story of God creating many languages to “separate” peoples, but at the right time bringing the good news of the gospel to all these languages.
God gave to Nehemiah new eyes, a new perspective, on a call to restore the worship of God to his broken city of Jerusalem. Do we have that same perspective for our world? Listen as visiting pastor Jeff Lavalette draws on Nehemiah’s story for us.
Invalid for 38 years. “Do you want to be healed?” The response is a shocking list of excuses why that is not possible. And yet this does not deter Jesus from healing the man, who obviously thinks his situation is hopeless, and who really is hopeless, save Jesus enters his life.
Today’s sermon continues in Pastor Jeff’s series from St John’s gospel. In today’s Scripture, we again see two examples of faith: one not real, the other real, true faith. Faith is not natural for human beings. Well, at least not Christian faith. Which might be a good reason to listen to today’s sermon.
The story in St John’s gospel chapter 4 is close to unbelievable. Just how could this woman change in a matter of one hour? As Pastor Jeff explains: this is how Jesus work!