Posts from September 2025
Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain (Part I)
Do you like taking quizzes? This is not an open book, or more correctly, an open Bible, quiz. Most people can recite with ease what are the top two of the Ten Commandments? But can you recite the Third Commandment? If you answered, “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain,” you answered correctly, and you get a lollipop. Does it surprise you that the commandment to not take the Lord’s name in vain comes…
Made for Relationship
It’s GIC Season!!! This is one of my favorite times of the year because we get to meet amazing people doing God’s work around the world, and we get to re-focus on the core things that are most important to us as a church and as followers of Jesus. This week we are beginning to prepare our hearts and minds for the GIC with a series called, “Made For This.” In this series, we wanted to focus on that foundational…
Global Impact Celebration 2025
I found out this week how easy it is for someone like me who has been to our church building literally thousands of times over the years, to stop noticing something that is in your face every day. Just this week at our team staff meeting, Tim Kim, our new pastor, brought up a couple things in the parking lot that he noticed. The rest of us (four of us!) didn’t know what he was talking about. There was a…
Is Creation just a Bible Story?
Recently I was watching a comedy show on TV and one of the talented comedians that I find very clever was doing a comedy skit from some Bible stories. Now let me be clear, this guy is clever and fast on his feet, and I find him most of the time pretty funny. But I just I’ve read some about his life and heard specifics out of his mouth that lead me to believe that he is not likely a…
Creation to New Creation
For the past five years, we at Lifeway Church have spent the majority of our academic school year preaching sermons on Sunday morning with a major theme. And we’ve been using some very specific places in scripture that guide us to understanding and applying the Word of God. Five years ago as we began this journey, I told you that we had a five-year plan at that time. We have now completed the five years, but we are now adding…
Christ, Our Sympathetic High Priest
Christians fail. Christians sin. Christians doubt. Christians suffer. This is a reality. But how do we respond in the face of it all? Oftentimes, as humans we are prone to wander. We are inclined to passivity. Some are inclined to self-confident effort. We are all tempted to be prayerless. But how does Christ respond to us when we are overwhelmed and overcome by the trials and tribulations of the world? Thank God, we know. Christ’s words have been written down…
Are all Baptisms the Same? (Part II)
Read Part I The ”third” kind of baptism came in Matthew 28.19. Before Jesus ascended into heaven, he spoke to his disciples one last time, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Firstly, this baptism was a baptism in the…