The Hunger for Love

In The Road Less Traveled, pop psychologist M. Scott Peck seems to indicate that he believes so strongly that his patients need love that he would even engage in a physical (sexual) relationship with them if he felt it would make them feel loved and get well. While I disagree completely with that application, it does serve to show how strongly he believes we all need loving relationships.

All of us hunger to love and be loved. Yet more often than not, we find hindrances to loving relationships at every corner. This sermon speaks concerning how God meets this need inside of the Christian Community — the Church — and how we can overcome the hindrances to loving relationships.

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What’s Important in Church?

Lots of people go to church for lots of reasons. This message speaks of an important value a church should have: Anointed Teaching.

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Using Stress to your Advantage…

Everyone thinks his or her job is the most stressful.

I read recently that teachers have the most stressful jobs. Of course, that conclusion was proclaimed where? On a teacher’s website. Management guru, Peter Drucker once indicated that pastoring is highly stressful. He suposedly called pastoral ministry “the most frustrated profession in America.” Guess where I read that? On a Pastor’s web site.

Most people feel that their lives are stressful. In fact, Continue reading