by Josh Waltz | Jan 27, 2019 | A Pastor's Heart
If you want a book of the Bible that’s practical, memorable, and accessible, you can’t do much better than Proverbs. For example: “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall” (16:18). Nothing hard to grasp about that! But probe beneath the...
by Josh Waltz | Jan 20, 2019 | A Pastor's Heart
This morning we begin a sermon series through the biblical book of Judges. If you’re not very familiar with Judges, let me offer a few words of description: chaotic, violent, graphic, bleak. This is humanity at its worst. Deception, oppression, cowardice, narcissism,...
by Josh Waltz | Jan 13, 2019 | A Pastor's Heart
(rerun from August 13, 2017) Why is it so difficult to experience God as a personal reality in our daily lives? Noise and distraction. It is utterly impossible to engage with God on the run. For thousands of years, Christians have testified from experience that...
by Josh Waltz | Jan 6, 2019 | A Pastor's Heart
Jesus’ final request from His Father before His death was perfect unity for His church: “I ask that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you...