Tag: Sermon
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74. What Am I Going to Do with You?
It’s June 17th, 1990—Father’s Day. The title of Pastor Lee’s sermon carries a question we’ve all heard, and probably all said: “What am I going to do with you?” As Pastor Lee points out, this familiar line usually comes from a place of frustration, exhausted patience, or even anger. But he asks us to hear…
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73. Fire Alert
Pastor Lee delivers his sermon for Pentecost Sunday 1990. Titled “Fire Alert.” Pastor Lee suggests we need fire alarms in our lives that detect not when we have a fire, but when our fire is going out. He, of course, is talking about our spiritual fire. Pastor Lee reminds us of something vital: while God is…
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72. Heading for Home
It’s Mother’s Day 1990. Pastor Lee preaches a message called “Heading for Home.” But this isn’t just a Mother’s Day sermon. It’s a challenge to every adult who cares about the generation growing up behind them. He calls us to help young people understand their true destiny—that this world isn’t their final home, heaven is.…
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71. Is Your Heart In It?
In this message from April 29, 1990, Pastor Leland Evenson explores the many conditions of the human heart—both physical and spiritual. Drawing from Luke 24 and the story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus, Pastor Lee reminds us that we seldom do anything well if our hearts aren’t in it. He speaks to…
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70. Living on the Bright Side
Today’s message from Pastor Lee, titled “Living on the Bright Side,” was first given on Easter Sunday in 1990. He dives into this message by reminding us that living for Jesus is not a once-a-week “fix,” but a pillar of our home, which we should live by day in and day out. Pastor Lee explores this…
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69. More Than Fun and Games
Today’s message from Pastor Lee, titled “More Than Fun and Games”, was delivered on March 25, 1990. Pastor Lee introduces us to what he believes to be one of the deadliest diseases in America: Boredom. Pastor Lee points out how boredom has the world obsessed with entertainment and leisure. The pursuit of fun is what…
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68. Life is Precious
Perhaps the title of this sermon, “Life is Precious”, seems trite or a worn cliché. Yet we can never be reminded enough of how precious life is. On March 18, 1990, Pastor Lee took a broad swipe at this multifaceted subject. Pastor Lee doesn’t dive deep into any one characteristic of the subject. However, even…
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67. Breaking the Self Addiction
A message from Pastor Lee titled, “Breaking the Self Addiction”. Pastor Lee uses the example of what would happen if you drilled a hole in a record album that was off-centre. He accurately asserts that you would have only a bunch of noise and very strange sounds coming from your phonograph. Similarly, having our lives…
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66. Thermostats and Thermometers
Pastor Lee exhorts us to not let the world determine how we act or react, based on the temperature in the room. That we are to be thermostats, not thermometers. Pastor Lee uses a number of metaphors as examples as to how we should live in this world. Urging us to enjoy the Christian life by…
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65. Lifetime Guarantee
Pastor Lee’s message titled “Lifetime Guarantee” was first given on February 11, 1990. Pastor Lee uses the Old Testament lesson from that Sunday, which was found in Deuteronomy 30. It was Moses’s last message to the Israelites, as they were about to enter the promised land. Pastor Lee reminds us that life presents us with…