Posts with the tag “malachi”
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Deleted Scenes: Remnant (Malachi 3:13-4:6)
March 7th, 2024
If you’re even just a little bit of a fan of college basketball, you know that March is a special month. March Madness is the end-of-season NCAA tournament that begins with 68 teams and ends a few wee... Read More
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Deleted Scenes: Intentional Giving Malachi 3:6-12
February 29th, 2024
When I was a kid, I would receive a $20 allowance every month. My parents would also give me clear guidelines on how that money was to be used. $10 was for saving. I actually have no memory now of wha... Read More
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Deleted Scenes: Malachi 2:17-3:6 Rugged faith
February 22nd, 2024
Our staff is currently reading through “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis. If you haven’t read it or heard about it, it’s a book Lewis wrote in 1941 that has one of the more unique formats you’ll c... Read More
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Deleted Scenes: Situationships and the BC Bail (Malachi 2:10-16)
February 15th, 2024
Are we, as humans, becoming less able or willing to make relational commitments? I’ve been thinking about that question after preaching on Malachi 2:10-16 this past Sunday. Is failure to commit a phen... Read More
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Deleted Scenes: Dung-faced (Malachi 2:1-9)
February 8th, 2024
At the first church I served in as a pastor, there was always a feature in the worship service called “the children’s moment”. It was where all the kids in the church would come up to the front and so... Read More
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Deleted Scenes: "Everyday Sacrifice" (Malachi 1:6-14)
February 1st, 2024
In Malachi 1:6-14, something that struck me was the mindset of the priests of Malachi’s day concerning their everyday work. As I said on Sunday, they hadn’t chosen this work. It was theirs by virtue o... Read More
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Deleted Scenes: "Build Back Better" (Malachi 1:1-5)
January 25th, 2024
In the aftermath of the pandemic in 2020-2021, we heard a lot of language about “building back better”. This was an idea that had apparently surfaced a bit in World Economic Forum circles in years bef... Read More