by Steve Hedrick | Mar 21, 2019 | Text Sermons
A newspaper reporter was interviewing an old farmer. His question was, “To what do you attribute your great success in farming?” “Well,” drawled the farmer, with a twinkle in his eye, “It’s 50% weather, 50% good luck, and the rest is brains.” Another definition of a...
by Steve Hedrick | Mar 13, 2019 | Text Sermons
In the Name of the Living God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Earlier this week, and really just for fun, I asked my ten-year-old son, Gus, to tell me what he thought the word grace meant. He said, “Dad, I think it’s kind of like mercy.” I said, “Well, Son, mercy...
by Steve Hedrick | Mar 7, 2019 | Text Sermons
A burglar broke into a home and was looking around. He heard a soft voice say, “Jesus is watching you.” Thinking it was just his imagination, he continued his search. Again, the voice said, “Jesus is watching you.” He turned...
by Steve Hedrick | Feb 27, 2019 | Text Sermons
A while back, I was sitting at dinner with some friends, and several of them were picking on another friend. I don’t remember what they were teasing him about, but they were getting under his skin like you can’t believe. I had the type of friends that, if they were...
by Steve Hedrick | Feb 20, 2019 | Text Sermons
Have you seen the little “happiness is” cartoons? At the top of the cartoon are the words “happiness is…” Then there’s a stick figure drawing of whatever happiness is being compared to, and a caption at the bottom. “Happiness is… being at peace with...
by Steve Hedrick | Feb 5, 2019 | Text Sermons
A young man was very excited because he just won a ticket to the Super Bowl. His excitement lessened as he realized his seat was in the back of the stadium. As he searched the rows ahead of him for a better seat, he found an empty one right next to the field. He...
by Steve Hedrick | Jan 25, 2019 | Text Sermons
I worked in the wedding industry for about ten years before coming to Redeemer. Our company shot about 70 weddings every year. For any of you who have been intimately involved with wedding planning, you know that weddings present a mixed bag; there is fun, happiness,...
by Steve Hedrick | Jan 13, 2019 | Text Sermons
What wisdom we find in bumper stickers! One of them proclaims, “Christians aren’t perfect; just forgiven.” There’s some truth in it. We certainly aren’t perfect. It speaks to a misperception some people have about the Church, that it’s a place for...
by Steve Hedrick | Jan 12, 2019 | Text Sermons
A little girl and her mother were looking at the creche. The mother was explaining that the Wise Men were presenting their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the newborn King. The little girl looked in great adoration at the babe in the manger, then...
by Steve Hedrick | Jan 9, 2019 | Text Sermons
“The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed...
