by ray | Feb 28, 2013 | Reflections
As part of the NAMB Send LA team, check out my blog post. 1) Be salty. Evangelism is not something you can preach about once a year. Evangelism should never be relegated to a particular committee or team. It has to be central. The Great Commission was Jesus’ marching...
by ray | Feb 25, 2013 | Reflections
As part of the NAMB Send LA team, check out my first blog post! I first felt God’s calling upon my life to be a pastor as a senior in college in 1996, but God didn’t open the door until 2010. By then, I had completed seminary, gone on missions for three and a half...
by ray | Feb 4, 2013 | Matthew, NT, Reflections, Sermons
As a Christian, we can fall into 2 traps and in so doing lose our focus on Christ. We can focus on God’s people more than Jesus or we can focus on ministry more than Jesus. Either way, losing our focus on Jesus can cost us everything. What do I mean by that? On the...
by ray | Feb 4, 2013 | Matthew, NT, Reflections, Sermons
This chapter, I believe, gives us two ways to live out our Christian lives. On the surface, these two ways may look very similar. But below the surface, they couldn’t be any more different. These two ways are worlds apart. One way is treating Jesus like a light...
by ray | Feb 4, 2013 | Matthew, NT, Reflections, Sermons
Today is going to be a shorter message because it is the first Sunday of the month when we observe the Lord’s Supper. Actually, today is going to be part sermon and part testimony. Because God has been shifting my paradigm all this week. Let’s start by reading the...
by ray | Jun 6, 2011 | NT, Reflections, Romans, Sermons
What about at a church level? What does judgment and gossip, mixed in with anger, do to a church? It divides people into various camps. In the church at Rome, you have Jewish Christians on one side judging the Gentile Christians. Imagine a conversation between two...
