Grace – getting something that you don’t deserve or didn’t earn   What is your first tangible memory of receiving grace? Mine...

Laborers in the Vineyard Matthew 20:1-16 INTRODUCTION:  The picture the parable presents uses realistic but exaggerated features. The...

Early into our parenting journey Danielle and I learned an important lesson about the power of forgiveness. An older couple whose kids were...

An Unmerciful Servant   Matthew 18:23-35   INTRODUCTION:  Have you ever experienced forgiveness that took you by surprise? It...

In college, I had a professor that liked to say, “Leaders are learners, and if you’re not learning, you’re not leading.” If I am...

Seeing the Opportunities Matt. 28:18-20 INTRODUCTION:  Reach Sunday is a time for us to focus as a body on the outward call for us as a...

My childhood home had a huge bay window off of the dining room. It was so large that it might just have qualified as a very small...

Things of Great Value Matthew 13:44-46 INTRODUCTION:  Have you ever found something of extraordinary value? Maybe it wasn’t valuable to...

Retirement.   As newlyweds, retirement was one of the hardest topics for us to discuss. See, in our early to mid-twenties, retirement...