Sermons from August 2014

Sermons from August 2014

Stonebrook 101 – Part 2

  Introduction Last week Paul kicked off our three week series, “Stonebrook 101” and did an excellent job of contrasting the competing visions of life: one aimed at pleasing ourselves, and one aimed at pleasing God.  SELFIE VISION VS. JESUS VISION He called the life aimed at pleasing ourselves and making ourselves famous the selfie vision (and here’s a picture of him pretending to take a selfie…, and to be fair here’s a selfie I took recently. This is me…

Wise Guys and Fools

  INTRODUCTION About 12 years ago, my good friend and fellow pastor Pat Sokoll moved to Iowa City to start a new church. Pat is simply one of the wisest men I’ve ever known. He has so much insight into people and problems and the things of God, that, honestly, I found it almost annoying that he could be so RIGHT so many times. (I mean that in a very complimentary way.) When he moved, I realized that I and our church…

God the Redeemer

The background story of our look at Genesis and the story of Joseph….very briefly: Joseph, as a 17-year-old kid, was favored by his father, Jacob. Because of this, his 10 older brothers despised him. They came this close to actually killing him, but instead they sold him to a caravan of foreigners as a SLAVE. Human trafficking existed nearly 4000 years ago. Joseph spends 13 years as a slave and in prison. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, has a dream from God. Joseph interprets…