ANSWERS CONFERENCE 2009

Answers Conference 2009
Sunday and Monday, February 22-23
Mark Your Calendars for Special Creation Conference
This special conference hosted by St. Luke for our members, the public and area churches will feature Dr. Terry Mortenson of Answers in Genesis. Terry is a personal friend of Pastor Christopher and Linda, an extensive writer, speaker and debater on the Creation-Evolution [...]

Living Sacrifices: Serving Together in Unity

Romans 12:1-5
Last week we looked at a pretty individualistic challenge
to present our entire self to God as a living sacrifice.
In today’s passage we see that God’s plan is to have this
individual call fulfilled in a collective result.
We are to function together in ONE body. Why?
Discover God’s agenda in calling us to serve together in unity.

Sermon [...]

Living Sacrifices 1: Living Worship

Romans 12:1-2
Our Salvation 101 series might have been viewed as a little abstract.
We answered a lot of questions but some may have thought to
themselves, “That’s great, but what about my daily life?”
Now we make the switch from the doctrinal to the practical.
This is the common switch for the Apostle Paul in at
least three of his [...]

God and Terror 3:The Fundamentalist Agenda–Winning the World

Genesis 16:10-12, 27:37-42; John 15:12-13; 2 Corinthians 5:18-21
The word fundamentalist scares people ever since
the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism with the Ayatollah Khomeini.
Because of this, people react against anyone considered
a religious fundamentalist, whether a fundamentalist in Islam
or a so-called Christian fundamentalist.
Indeed, even Rosie O’Donnell made the claim that
Christian radicals are as dangerous to America as militant [...]

God and Terror 2: Living in Terror

Psalm 10; Psalm 11:4-6; Psalm 140:1-3
Our minds are numbed by hour after hour of coverage of 9/11,
or Hurricane Katrina, and now the unending bombing
between Hamas governed Palestinian Authority and Israel.
God calls us to “clothe ourselves with compassion.”
How do we generate compassion for a situation
on the other side of the world,
that we can’t fix if we [...]

God and Terror 1: Whose Side Is God On?

Romans 11:25-29; Psalm 2
When the 9/11 attacks killed 3,000 Americans,
we were stunned. Shocked. Many asked the burning question,
“Where was God when this happened?”
Even that question lays out a position, doesn’t it?
God must be on our side in such a tragedy.
In fact, this is the question at the heart of much of the dispute
in the Middle [...]