by ray | Sep 13, 2008 | Reflections
I can’t believe 7 years have passed already since 9/11/2001. Leading up to this horror, Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, was executed a few months prior. He set the stage by his final statement before his death as he quoted from William Henley’s...
by ray | Sep 13, 2008 | 1 Cor, NT, Sermons
Introduction What are your expectations in coming here? Why am I here? I have 2 kids, I have a stressful job at a small software company. I am 33 years old. What on earth is my connection with all of you? Frankly, very little. But God saved me in college at UC...
by ray | Sep 10, 2008 | Reflections
It is not easy to hear the voice of God in our modern age of cell phones, broadband internet connections, HD TV, ipods, IM, facebook, twitter, you get the point. I am returning to a basic pattern of Christian life that I practiced more during my younger days in the...
by ray | Sep 7, 2008 | Reflections
Soon after David was anointed king, he encountered spiritual opposition through Joab. (here is a brief description of Joab from wikipedia)[Joab, which translates to "The Lord is father," was the nephew of King David, the son of Zeruaiah. He was made the...
by ray | Sep 4, 2008 | Reflections
We give up so easily in prayer. We pray once and if God doesn’t answer, we assume He is not listening. Or, we make the mistake of getting some vague conviction from God and fill in all the practical loose ends with our ingenuity and strategic planning. In 2...
