Author: Chris Hankel
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Setting Boundaries
This morning we are jumping back into our series: Biblical Principles for Powerful Relationships. We started two weeks ago, took last Sunday off, but now we’re back, and true to my word, we are going to tackle this second Biblical principle: Powerful relationships begin when we learn to set healthy boundaries. We are only doing…
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I Choose You
We took a little vacation to Sheridan, Wyoming last week to see my daughter Madison and my son-in-law, Drew. I will gladly drive 12 hours to see these guys because this relationship is important to me. God created us for relationship because the language of heaven is relationship. What God says and does is for…
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Limx→∞(FG) > Fh
One of the biggest things that occupies our family’s life these days is Stacey’s mom. She is a beautiful, wonderful soul, and I could not have asked for a better mother-in-law. But in her 87th year, she has advanced dementia. Of course, the most obvious symptom of dementia is memory loss. At first, she would…
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Blessings and Curses
A couple of weeks ago, my family and I went to a river in Idaho that we visit every year. This year my daughter, Madison, killed it while we were fishing together. She caught some really beautiful fish. Here is a picture of one of her fish. I turned this into a 5×7 print and…
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Godly Leadership
We live in a moment of profound leadership skepticism. Trust in political, institutional, business, and even religious leaders has eroded dramatically over the last generation. And people are not wrong to be skeptical. We have watched enough leaders fail, fall, or abuse their position that the cynicism about leadership feels very justified. You might say,…
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Set Apart
I hope you all had an amazing 4th of July celebration. We have so many good things to celebrate as Americans. The United States was founded on a number of unique principles that have shaped our nation over the past 250 years. One of the things that defines us as a nation is our justice…
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Don’t Forget
When most people hear the word “idolatry,” they picture golden statues and pagan altars. We certainly don’t think about idolatry being an issue in modern American culture. But even in the days of Moses, idolatry was never about the statues or altars. It’s about where you put your trust when you’re afraid, and what you…
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The Greatest Commandment
By Jason Luke Well, brothers and sisters, this is my first Sunday preaching the sermon. No place to run and hide now, we are in this together until it’s over, and if I’m honest, I am glad that I am in it with you guys! Before we get started in Deuteronomy 6:4-5, I’d like to…
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Remember Where You’ve Been
This week begins our summer-long study of the Book of Deuteronomy called Choose Life. Deuteronomy was written by Moses at the end of the wilderness journey and on the eve of the conquest of Canaan, the Promised Land, which is precisely forty years after the exodus from Egypt. But before Moses tells the Israelites what…
