Progress Not Perfection

Scripture Passage – Matthew 14:30-31
Description – The fifth in a six-part series ‘Get Your Feet Wet.’
This morning we begin with this quote from Max Lucado.

(Slide 1) Whether or not storms come, we cannot choose. But where we stare during a storm, that we can. (Source: Max Lucado via twitter.com/MaxLucado, October 12, 2009)
(I think that [...]

12 Steps to God’s Way of Living

2 Samuel 11:1

Description – Opening of a series on the 12 Steps as a Spiritual Discipline
25 years ago this past fall, I bought my first car. It was a 1976 Chevy Vega. I loved it.
Now my parents had found one of those AMC Pacers in Ohio (remember those, looked like an egg and had lots [...]

12 Steps to God’s Way of Living – Part 2

Luke 15:11-32
Description – Part 2 of a 6 part series on the 12 Steps as a Spiritual Discipline
When I was a kid, and I do not remember how old I was but I was still in grade school, I ran away from home. I ‘ran away’ to a former neighbor’s home that had moved one [...]

12 Steps to God’s Way of Living – Part 3

Psalm 32:1-5
Description – Part 3 of a 6 part series on the 12 Steps as a Spiritual Discipline
(Slide 1)30 years ago this month, I had my first car wreck. With my mom’s car. It was the first Friday of January 1976 after Christmas vacation and I was coming home from basketball practice (I was manager [...]

12 Steps to God’s Way of Living – Part 4

Luke 18:9-13
Description – Part 4 of a 6 part series on the 12 Steps as a Spiritual Discipline
It was either the spring of 1968 or 1969 because at the time my mom was teaching kindergarten at a church about a half-mile from our home for two years before it went into our public school system [...]

12 Steps to God’s Way of Living – Part 5

(Slide 1) Last week was the Super Bowl and those who love the color of black and gold are rejoicing because their beloved Steelers are the champions!
The half-time show was tame, (at least by Rolling Stones standards,) and I never thought I would see 60-year-old men rumble up and down a stage as [...]

12 Steps to God’s Way of Living – Part 6

Scripture Passage – Luke 8:26-39
Description – Part 6 of a 6 part series on the 12 Steps as a Spiritual Discipline
(1)In the book, Living Your Strengths, we read, ‘One of the most common mistakes people make in their spiritual lives is to focus on the steps to spiritual growth rather than on the outcomes of [...]