[Detailed outline from guest preacher Steve Limiero]

***Video "I'm putting up the Flag"

Some of you may have seen this - Jane Arend even emailed me about it...

There are many commercials promising that their product is just the right Father's Day present - whether it's steak or power tools or something golf related... But I want us to focus this morning not on what we can get for Dad - but rather what we need from Dads, from all Christian men.

On our property where we're building, we've had a lot of trees cut down - over a hundred oak and hickories. Some of them were massive, much too big for my chainsaw or skill level. After a professional cut one of the larger ones, I was shocked to see it was almost completely hollow for...

Last Monday was of course Memorial Day, a day when we honor and remember those in our armed forces who gave their lives for their country. Why would they do that? Certainly many were drafted, but many enlisted of their own accord - why? Why would they give up their lives - and the ones they would have had...

In the past, God has asked His people to do some…pretty strange things - for instance, the story of Noah and the Ark. The fact that God asked a man over 500 years old to build a huge boat in the middle of the desert when it had never rained there before - that's a little odd. God asked Joshua and the people of Israel to ...

[Written sermon unavailable.]

Last year, in honor of Mother's Day we showed a video entitled, "Stuff Moms Never Say" - this year I have, "Stuff Moms Never Say - Part 2".

The Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote, "Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." If you look on social media today, most people may not express it that way - but that's definitely how they live. The choices they make, their decisions, what they value – it's all about the end goal...