Morning Hour Chapel

First Things First: Don't Lose Your Mind

Do you ever think about your faith? Do you ever question WHY you believe what you believe? If not, why not?

Pastor Joe speaks about loving God with all our MIND. Do we believe the Bible because we’ve read it, and studied it, and applied Christ’s teaching to our lives, or do we believe what we believe because we grew up in church with Christian parents and simply decided to believe whatever our parents and the pastor told us?

It is crucial, if we are to love God with our minds, that we know Scripture. It is even MORE crucial that we LIVE SCRIPTURALLY. That we LIVE the commandments of Jesus. If we will not live Christ’s commandments, there is no way that we will ever be able to convince another soul that Jesus is our only HOPE. If they can’t see us living our faith, there is no reason for them to believe us when we say that Jesus died for our sins, or that God wants us to live in eternity with Him. They won’t even believe us when we say that God exists.

We are encouraged to read the Bible, and in particular the words of Christ, and to use the minds that God has given us to understand how to live, and to put our understanding into practice.

First Things First: It's All About Soul

Is love all about feelings? Fluttering hearts and butterflies in the stomach? Or is love a choice? Something we do in our free will?

Pastor Joe speaks on loving God with all of your SOUL. The soul is the eternal part of our being that God breathed into humans at creation and the center of our human will. When we love God with all our soul, it's not just a feeling that we have, but also a conscious, willful decision that we make, every day.

First Things First: My Bowels Will Go On??

Jesus may be your Savior, but is he really your LORD?

Pastor Joe continues the sermon series, “First Things First”. He talks about loving the LORD our God with all our heart, which literally means with the central part of our emotional being. What does it truly mean to consider Jesus our LORD, including obeying His commandments and following His instruction, no matter what?

The word LORD literally speaks of the person who is the master, and that those who call a lord “Lord” do so with the understanding that is not only reverent and respectful, but also obedient and humble.

 

First Things First: All You Need is Love

Language...words...are filed with the meaning we bring to them through our experiences. 

 

Part 1 of a sermon series entitled "First Things First," a look at what Jesus calls the Great Commandment (to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourself).

World Communion Sunday

Stakes in the Ground - Where We Are Going.

Jesus will be where we are going. 

Stakes in the Ground - Reflections

Stained glass windows remind me of our role-- to reflect Christ to one another.. the astounding way they hold the form so that the light can shine through.

Stakes in the Ground - The Impulse

Resurrection is not a one time event or an occasional thing. It is the impulse of God to resurrect us.... if we let God. 

Stakes in the Ground - First, God

"It all begins with God. First, God. When we look at it this way, our whole lives become a response."

Since the First Day

Daniel 10

Daniel's waiting does not equal God's waiting.