The Birth of Jesus with the Christmas wrappings peeled off a little.
The birth of John the Baptist. Salvation is the forgiveness of sins—which means sin exists. Also, faith without faithfulness is nothing. God doesn't steer parked cars.
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“My goodness, girl! It is such an honor to meet you! We’ve been waiting since the Garden of Eden for this—of all the women who have ever lived, or will ever live, you're the one He chose to be His mother.” Are you feeling it? This is quite a moment.
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A line-by- line exploration of the Gospel of Luke. In which we learn why he wrote it, we meet the last of the Old Testament characters, and some very old prayers are finally answered.
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This is the strange part of Daniel (7-12) where it gets absolutely apocalyptic. Pastor Frank helps make sense out of the symbolic cryptic passages—dealing with the Last Days, End Times, Antichrist, and the end of the world. Come on! It'll be fun. He promises to not scare the bajeebers out of you.
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How are people of faith supposed to deal with all the outside pressure to compromise what we believe? How does God expect us to handle the constant bombardment of bad news, sickness, frustration, suffering, evil, and pain? What’s the point of being a Christian if all this bad stuff is going to happen to us anyway?
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It's always a good idea to start and end with grace. This is the final sermon where Pastor Frank walks verse by verse through the book of 1st Corinthians. There are some surprising discoveries in this last chapter.
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The most psychedelic, strange, performance-art prophet in the Bible. Ezekiel is a trip. Keep worship weird, that's what I say. He's also so full of hope you can practically drown in it.
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The Book of Jeremiah has some of the sweetest, brightest Gospel in the Old Testament—In fact, it's where we get the words "New Testament." This is the story of the most miserable prophet in the Bible giving us the greatest hope. Also, it contains everyone's favorite Bible verse (29:11) Pastor Frank will try not to completely ruin that one for you.
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If you want to know what God sounds like, read Isaiah. God is holy. Crushing Law and the sweetest Gospel. If you've ever been confused by the amazing book of Isaiah—have I got a sermon for you! Pastor Frank has seven important things to keep in mind to help you understand Isaiah.
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It's a good bet that you've never heard a sermon on 1st Corinthians 14—not all of it. Here's a question: what do you do when you come across a chunk of text in the Bible that you don't like?
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It's always a good idea to start and end with grace. This is the final blog post where Pastor Frank walks verse by verse through the book of 1st Corinthians. There are some surprising discoveries in this last chapter.
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What bad news do you need to understand before you can hear the Good News? No one is interested in hearing the solution to a problem they don't think they have. Also... ZOMBIES and a little Fire & Brimstone.
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If you don't believe this about Jesus, you might as well not believe anything.
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If you had to take a piece of paper and write down what you believe, what would you say? If someone found your note in a hundred years, would it do them any good? What is the Gospel? This blog post will help you with this.
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The Bible is clear, we are to love one another. What’s not so clear to most of us is how to do that. What love actually is. This is a blog post on probably the most beautiful chapter in the entire Bible—1st Corinthians 13. It is challenging, convicting, and very, very comforting.
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The church is the body of Christ. The Holy Spirit gives each member gifts, powers, abilities, and roles that all come together to benefit the whole body. We're talking HOLY GHOST stuff here: Word of wisdom, knowledge, faith, prophecy, healing, miracles, and yes... speaking in tongues. If you're a Christian, you have spiritual gifts—the question is, what are you doing with them?
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The Lord's Supper. Benefits and Warnings. God uses things in His creation as means of His salvation. Stuff. Objects. He uses the water of baptism, and the bread and wine of Communion to objectively apply the grace, forgiveness, and salvation of Christ to us. It’s tangible in time and space. But for the true spiritual benefit, it has to be received subjectively by faith and followed with faithfulness.
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America. Gender. Hairstyles. Culture. Hats. Hippies. Angels. Tomboys and girly men. This is Reality 101. Feel free to check it out...
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A deep look into 1st Corinthians chapter 9 on Father's Day. Why was St Paul an amateur apostle? What does the Bible say about preachers making money off the church? What does it really mean to "be all things to all people?" Is that actually a good idea?
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