Don’t Just Do Something Sermon
When 15-year-old Christopher Searsy was shot on a city street in Chicago, just a few blocks from Ravenwood Hospital, his friends carried him to within 35 feet of the hospital emergency room door. Christopher was too weak to be moved any farther so his friends ran into the hospital to get a doctor, or a nurse, or a paramedic. But none of the hospital personnel would leave the hospital to go to the end of the driveway to help Christopher. They quoted a hospital policy that said that no hospital employee was to leave the hospital premises during working hours to care for someone on the street. Finally, some kind and helpful soul dragged Christopher to the hospital door, but it was too late. Christopher Searsy died an hour later.
Walking Alone with God
If Jesus needed daily communion with His Father, how much more do we need time with our Heavenly Father. Satan, like a roaring lion, is looking for those he can devour. Like Jesus, we need our batteries charged daily.
Cryogenic Christians
Are you one of the frozen? Is your Christian experience in a survival mode? Are you suffering from a state of suspended animation? Are you pulled back from others in a lost existence of cold indifference? Are you satisfied with the Christian experience that is on hold? Are you waiting for the day when your frozen heart will be revived and you’ll feel warm again?
Gifts that survive the Titanic
Historians think it may be the third most written-about story of all time, right after Jesus Christ and the American Civil War. It happened on a cold April 14, back in 1912--the sinking of the Titanic, of course. There’s something about that tragedy that fascinates people: how an unsinkable ship can hit a North Atlantic iceberg on its maiden voyage, and then 1,523 people have a full two hours and 40 minutes to basically wait to drown at 2:20 in the morning. After 17 movies, 18 documentaries, and at least 130 books already, CBS aired a four-hour mini-series, giving another look at the tragedy. And James Cameron put $120 million worth of disaster up on the big screen for Titanic and its hundreds of tiny subplots to unfold yet again. But you know, there’s something about this icy story that illustrates Bible truth.
Normal Christianity
We live in a world that defines Christianity as irrelevant and powerless. Religion has become the object of mockery and derision. Is Christianity doomed? Will culture or the God of Scripture define how you and I will live?