I’m a little shocked that I haven’t posted since the middle of October, but there is an explanation. Since my last post, my life has changed somewhat dramatically. I was preparing to preach on the weekend of October 28 when I was dealing with shortness of breath and a racing heartbeat. My doctor wanted to do a heart cath and when that was run, blockage was found and so I ended up with a stent and a new course in life. I began cardiac rehab pretty aggressively and have been trying to adjust rhythms (and there were some holidays in November and December :).)

I’ve preached pretty consistently through all of this, so you can find audio/video on the church’s website. I usually begin each year with a sermon on the importance of prayer, then follow up with one on the importance of the Bible. Then, this year, we are beginning a series on elementary principles of our faith. So, that brings things up to the here and now.

The sermon that launched our Week of Prayer was from Acts 13-14. On the heels of an update from some of our international partners, I concluded with a call to prayer and fasting. The church worked through prayers of Ephesians 1 and 3 during our Week of Prayer devotional.

Then, the sermon on the importance of God’s Word was a topical sermon that explored a few texts to bring everyone together around the basics of what the Bible encourages: how ordered learning from God’s Word, grounded in elementary principles, leads to maturity for our church family.

Finally, yesterday, I preached the first of the elementary principles on the Gospel message. If you’d like to go deeper, one of our elders developed a worksheet to examine Gospel proclamation in the book of Acts:

So, I hope this helps you drill down with clarity and move with progression into 2026.