Brian's Sermons

Over the next four weeks, we will be engaging with Bill Hybels' Just Walk Across the Room , a campaign for personal evangelism.  The focus of the campaign is that everyone can do it; it's as simple as a "walk across the room."  We must be led by the Holy Spirit to develop friendships, discover stories, and discern next steps.  Stories are powerful - God has as story and you have a story.  The priority is people - numbers isn't, and we're not trying to make people into "projects" or "targets" - we are working on genuinely caring for people.  Because I am using Bill Hybels' materials extensively for this sermon series, I'm not going to re-publish the sermons on this website.  Though I've reworked them for the context where I am, they're still too close to the original to be "mine."  If you want a paper copy, however, let me know (in the comments) and I can get you one.

“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”   2 Chronicles 7:13-14 I’ll admit that I get a little queasy whenever I hear the phrase “act of God” when related to natural disasters.  I know that insurance companies like to be able to protect themselves against unforeseen circumstances, but “acts of God”? Really?  When was the last time you heard good weather referred to as an “act of God?”   “Due to an act of God, crops are great this season.” But whenever there’s a flood, hurricane, earthquake, tornado, you’ve got someone calling it an act of God, and often blaming the victims.  I remember immediately after Hurricane Katrina, most of our country was disappointed and upset at a popular TV preacher’s ass