LCM Sermons

DFQ is both a warning and a promise: Don’t Faithlessly Quit, because we are Destined to Finish the Quest. The returned exiles built the altar first, despite their fear, but then the work stalled for eighteen years. Opposition slowed it, but what stoppe…

Two generations share one house, and the fathers prepared abundantly. Like David, who gave over and above everything for a temple he would never stand in, they paid the cost so the next generation could begin with more. Their preparation is the floor, …

God measures a house by how much wider it gets with each level, not by how high it rises, and what widens is shared, not controlled. A monument is tall and narrow and points to one man, while a family widens. The Hebrew word for “generation” pictures a…

The chairs in this house were filled by God, and then emptied again by sending, so that others could fill them. The people who fill them are planted and faithful where God puts them, and they finish what they started. Some fill a chair by staying, trus…

The chairs are empty because the men who sat in them were sent. Twenty-three years ago, in a season of turmoil and shrinking, God told a handful of people to buy chairs for a congregation that did not yet exist, and real faith always borders on foolish…