This is a condensed transcript of my July 10, 2011 sermon. We humans sure have a knack for messing things up, don’t we?!  I tried to avoid the Casey Anthony trial at all costs, but I broke down last week at the gym when I turned on the TV at the machine I was using [...]

I hate election season.  I’m not anti-voting, anti-democracy, or anti-American.  I just hate the onslaught of negative media campaigns where political opponents slam, slaughter, and condemn one another.  It’s so bad that my kids have caught on.  We try to out-do one another with ridiculous and hilarious fake smear ads.   On the way to [...]

This has got to be one of the sweetest, most touching videos I’ve seen in a long time.  This precious 6-year old girl knows her Bible…well, at least the story of Jonah!

Every once in a while, a story of forgiveness comes along that causes you to pause and take note.  An article in today’s Denver Post did just that to me.  It’s an article about a book written by Gayle Haggard called, Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made in My Darkest Hour. Gayle is the [...]

Pastor Ted Haggard is a man who once had the ear of White House staffers and lobbied Congress for conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices.  Back in 1985, he began holding a weekly Bible study in his home that eventually grew into a 14,000 member church.  Then in 2006, it all came crashing down as he [...]

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. – [...]