by markfeldmeir | Feb 15, 2012 | Featured, sermon, Updates & Announcements
This past Sunday I spoke about the well-intentioned, but naive advice to “practice random acts of kindness.” It’s not that we don’t need more kindness in the world; it’s that “random” just doesn’t get the job done. The...
by markfeldmeir | Jan 19, 2012 | Featured, Grace, Humility
Donald Miller wrote about a question one of his teachers asked his elementary school class one day. The lesson was on values clarification, and the question was this: if there were a lifeboat adrift at sea, and in the lifeboat were a male lawyer, a female doctor, a...
by markfeldmeir | Jan 5, 2012 | Featured, Grace, Jesus, Obedience
Some people make a name for themselves by their successes and achievements at work. We live in a culture in which our identity (who we are) is often defined by our occupation (what we do). When someone asks us, “What do you do,” we’re apt to say, “I’m a teacher,” or...
by markfeldmeir | Dec 15, 2011 | Faith, Featured, Holy Spirit, Obedience
Everyone needs a champion. When our lives take an unexpected turn and we find ourselves up against forces or circumstances that threaten to overwhelm us, we need someone who is willing to go before us, to march headlong with courage into the fray, even if it means...
by markfeldmeir | Nov 16, 2011 | Faith, Family, Featured, Jesus, Obedience
In Matthew 25 Jesus tells a story – the very last story, according to Matthew, that Jesus ever told – about Judgment Day, when the King calls each of us before him so that he can make a final assessment of how we lived our lives. Unlike the popular images we have of...
