It’s been said before that life is twenty percent the hand you are dealt and eighty percent how you play that hand. What we all recognize is that wise living requires making good decisions and responding to unforeseen circumstances as you go. Most of the world’s religions offer guidance on what it means to live a meaningful and purposeful life. This might not be the same for everybody but is it possible to boil that wisdom down into certain core principles? Here is my humble attempt to do that. 1.  Live by......

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This Sunday, October 27, we will begin a brand new sermon series focused on “The Life of Moses.” Moses is a pivotal figure in the Old Testament, called by God to lead the Israelite people out of slavery in Egypt, through the wilderness, and to the Promised Land. He was given up by his mother at three months old because Pharoah was putting all newborn baby boys to death. Ironically, he was discovered by Pharoah’s daughter floating in the Nile River and raised in Pharoah’s house with his own mother being brought......

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This Wednesday night, October 9, we will conclude our “Faith, Values, and the Public Square” series with a panel of ministers talking about “Being Christian in an Election Year.” This is a difficult yet very important topic. The civil and political landscape in America remains fractured and polarized, affecting every aspect of our culture including the unity of the church. Christians have a responsibility to model and be advocates for civil dialogue among people of different backgrounds and political ideologies. The anger and incivility of our culture has become a challenge that......

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I recently preached a sermon on the importance of humility because I believe it is a Christian virtue. If you read the gospels carefully, it appears that Jesus lived a humble life. But why is humility often lacking among so many Christians in today’s world? Yes, we all want to be admired. We all want to be appreciated. We all want to be heard and respected. But pride and ego can so easily get in the way. Everything in our culture seems to be moving towards self-absorption and self-promotion. We hear, “Put......

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