Sermons from November 2024
Banking on Generosity
It seems like just when we think things are becoming financially certain, unwelcome surprises arise or financial angst transfers to the next generation. Financial insecurity sometimes feels perpetual. So how can we cultivate generous living when giving can so often erase our margins and threaten our security of being? The Apostle Paul’s powerful words to a young apprentice offer insight into a better kind of security.
Beginnings of Mission
Mission is risky, uncomfortable, demanding and difficult. That’s also what makes it meaningful and worthwhile. But not everyone will leave the comfort of a stable job or a stable environment to engage the mission field. So how can we experience the joy of mission whether we go or whether we stay? A simple truth from the first journey of the most famous missionary may hold the secret.