Gospel Growth in Us (21 Days of Prayer #2 & Centered #10) January 8, 2023 Are you familiar with the phrase the clothes make the man? When I asked that on Sunday morning, not many hands went up — […]
Jesus-Centered Identity (Centered #9) November 13, 2022 Back in 1999, two academic psychologists put together a video designed to measure selective attention. The video went viral, they did further research on […]
Jesus-Centered Religion (Centered #8) November 6, 2022 About ten years ago, shortly after my wife and I moved to Waverly, I got invited to a gathering of pastors from around the […]
Jesus-Centered Freedom (Centered #7) October 30, 2022 I want to tell you up front: what I did with this sermon is something I had never done before, and something I will […]
Jesus-Centered Growth (Centered #6) October 23, 2022 I want to begin by thanking YouTube and Netflix. About five years ago YouTube tried its hand at original content, made a series, then […]
Jesus-Centered Suffering (Centered #5) September 4, 2022 Years ago, when I was the young adult pastor at a church in another Iowa city, a young woman made an appointment to see […]
Jesus-Centered Transformation (Centered #4) August 28, 2022 This past week I had lunch with a college student I have gotten to know through campus ministry. He had been out of state […]
A Jesus-Centered Faith (Centered #3) August 21, 2022 About thirteen months after my wife and I got married — and about two months after our college graduation — we jumped in the […]
Jesus-Centered Walking (Centered #2) August 14, 2022 The spring after my family and I moved into our current house, I met one of my neighbors for the first time. And it […]
A Jesus-Centered Life (Centered #1) August 7, 2022 Anyone here stressed? Yeah. Life feels full. Things are a little crazy. Maybe it is because you forgot to export your sermon slides before […]
