Mammon or God
Mammon is a genuine rival to God. We must choose one or the other: Mammon or God. ((Mammon, as define by Os Guinness, refers to money when it assumes an inordinate place in our lives…
What Is God’s Calling For My Life?
Note: this is a summary of a sermon I preached from Jeremiah 1. You can listen to it on the Bergen Church website. If you have begun to follow Jesus and trust in him, you…
Practice What You Preach
You have heard the saying. Practice what you preach! We say it to someone we are judging as hypocritical. Someone who is telling people to behave a certain way, even though the person doing the…
Resolutions for 2016
NOTE: This is an edited manuscript from a sermon I preached last Sunday. For many of us, this time of year marks a time of reflection and anticipation. We reflect on the past year and…
How Great is God?
How you answer this question will determine how you live. Read the words of Mary, the mother of Jesus, upon discovering the news that she was carrying the Son of God in her womb. My…
Awaken and Take Hold of the Lord
There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in the hand of our…
Consumed by God
In 1 Kings 18, there is a recorded an event in which the power of God is put on display through fire consuming a sacrifice. Following this display of power, many people believed that the…
Musings On Why Young People Leave the Church
I’m reading a book about why people leave the church after graduation. It’s called You Lost Me. There’s a statement in the beginning that caught my eye: “He and his bandmates were ‘all really embarrassed…
The Purpose of Studying Scripture
In reading the introduction to Martin Luther’s commentary on Galatians, I have concluded that the purpose for studying Scripture is not primarily to understand how to be more obedient. Rather, we study Scripture (and obey…
The Book of Judges and the Christian Life
The book of Judges begins with the death of Joshua. The Israelites have settled in the land of Canaan and were a strong military force. However, as we will see, they became complacent and failed…
God’s Purpose for My Life
In Psalm 138:8, David makes the claim that the Lord will fulfill the purpose for his life. This tells me two things: 1. The Lord determines the purpose for our lives. We do not. 2.…
Receiving both good and evil from the Lord
It is common for us to think that God will only dish out that which we believe is good for us. By thinking this way, we are placing our own judgment higher than God’s, and…
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