Oct 2, 2014 | Sonny's Sayings
I have been talking about the Spiritual gifts that Paul lists in Galatians 5, and we have talked about love and joy so far. In each of these instances, as it is with all of the Spiritual gifts, 2 things are important to remember. First, a Spiritual gift is not a badge...
Sep 25, 2014 | Sonny's Sayings
We have been talking about Spiritual gifts in Sonny’s Sayings. We talked a couple of weeks ago about the first of those Spiritual gifts, love. As we speak about these, I want to remind folks that Spiritual gifts can be the thing that builds up a church in ways it...
Sep 11, 2014 | Sonny's Sayings
Last week we started with a beginning discussion about Spiritual gifts, and we talked about how Paul mentions the list of gifts in Galatians and other places, not to give us an exhaustive understanding of gifts, but rather as examples of how the Spirit works in our...
Sep 4, 2014 | Sonny's Sayings
I want to spend the next few weeks talking in Sonny’s Sayings about the gifts of the Spirit. Before I start, I want to make a couple of disclaimers. First, while the Bible has a few lists of the Spiritual gifts, in my opinion these lists are not intended to be...
Aug 28, 2014 | Sonny's Sayings
I was on my way to lunch the other day, and I turned on the radio, hoping to hear the sports talk radio I like to listen to. Instead, I caught the commercials. There were about 5 in a row, and they all contained a promise to make things easier. One of them had a...
Aug 21, 2014 | Sonny's Sayings
Our church has some families that are going through difficult times right now: there are struggles in finding employment, struggles with acute grief, struggles in broken relationships, and others. Finding joy in difficult times is hard, probably because we have an...
