Blog Posts

  • Smoked Brisket and Roasted Summer Vegetable Soup

    It’s Labor Day, so we should all act like Americans and smoke a brisket, am I right? Well, this is my first brisket (or firsket, for short) and it was stunningly delicious. But first, the soup. Yellow Tomato Soup We are not canning or otherwise preserving any of our garden vegetables this year so I’ve…

  • Choose Your Stick: On Critics of the Church

    It has been said that any stick is good enough to hit the church with, and I believe it. If critics are a dime a dozen, then critics of the church are a dime a baker’s dozen. If your church patiently disciples a couple through a difficult marriage, someone who witnesses a less than cordial…

  • God’s Grace to Noah

    Sermon Text: Genesis 6-9 Foundation #4 – God will not allow the corruption of the wicked to overflow His plan of redemption. In 1953, Martians invaded planet earth and wiped out a large portion of the population. In 1959, a nuclear war wipes out the majority of mankind leaving only a few, who are soon…

  • The Most Powerful Woman in Springfield

    “Do you want to know who the most powerful woman in Springfield is?” he asked me over the counter. I can’t remember his name, but he was a contractor. I wondered if there had been some 417 Magazine article about up and coming women in our town. Or maybe there had been a write-up in…

  • Sin is Crouching at the Door

    Text: Genesis 4 Foundation #3 – Adam fell and now all humanity lives under the curse of sin. Introduction On Thursday we had an opportunity to take our little camper out for the first time. We went down to Roaring River State Park and had a great time with the kids. As night descended and…