Articles, Booklets and Sermons

• This is a very helpful introduction to Listening Prayer for those who are interested in beginning a journey of a lifetime. It provides both the foundations and justification for Listening Prayer as well as some helpful tips are you begin the journey.

• A thirty day devotional which will introduce you to solid scripturally based prayers to expand the scope of your prayer life. This little booklet can change the way you pray.

• Scripture:John 9:1-7
• What is the nature of the call?
• How is the word call used in the New Testament
• Why was this concept of the “Call of God” so important to Peter and Paul?
• What can the Shepherd’s experience tell us about the Call of God?
• Who are called?
• Allowing the Call of God to change everything

• Scripture:Genesis 12:1-4 Romans 4:13-21
• Faith: How do we define it?
• Faith: Why is it necessary while we wait?
• Faith: What it does in us when we exercise it?
• Hope: How do we define it?
• Hope: Why is it necessary while we wait?
• Hope: What it does in us when we exercise it?
• Imagining the Hopeful Future while in a Hopeless Present

• Scripture:John 9:1-7
• Christian View of Why We Suffer
• Why this is unsatisfying at one level
• Jesus invites us to join Him as He enters into the suffering of the world.

• Scripture:Genesis 1
• Science at the Beginning of the 20th Century
• What Scientists Now Believe
• A Word of Caution
• How we got to this contentious condition
• My Journey
• A Proposed Truce

• John 20:1-11 God shows up but …
• Mary Magdalene misses it
• Simon Peter misses it
• John misses it at first but then sees and believes “into”

• John 17: 20-23
• Jesus prayed for unity of the whole church
• Jesus prayed for unity that was to be modeled after the Trinity
• Do we see Jesus’ Prayer Answered?
• Honoring One Another as modeled in the Trinity

• John 17: 20-26
• What it is?
• Is it Biblical?
• What does it matter that we serve a Trinitarian God?

• John 17: 22-26
• The Trinity Delights in One Another
• The Trinity Deeply knows One Another
• The Trinity Is Transparent with One Another
• The Trinity Endorses One Another
• The Trinity Lets Go of One Another
• The Trinity Practices the Power to Give

• Ephesians 4:1-6
• Unity is Choreographed through honoring mutual gifts
• Unity is Choreographed through submitting to one another

• Acts 2: 42-47 The early church devotes themselves to Breaking Bread
• Jesus modeled it
• The Bible Makes Eating a Central Theme
• Eating is breaking the body and shedding the blood of Creation

• Acts 2:14-17 Peter quotes Joel
• What did it mean for the disciples to prophesy on the day of Pentecost
• Do you earnestly desire the gift of prophecy?
• Opportunity to pray to receive the gift

• John 17:20-23 Jesus prays with purpose
• Two triads of purpose
• Jesus Prays: So That we might be one / So That we might be in the Trinity / So That the world might believe that the Father sent the Son
• Jesus gives us His glory: So That we might be perfectly one / So That the world might know that the Father sent the Son

• The Three Tithes
• Numbers 18:21-24 The Levitical Tithe
• Deuteronomy 14:22-27 The Festival Tithe
• Deuteronomy 14:28-29 The Charity Tithe

• Luke 10:1-12
• Why Pray: Because large change often begins with small beginnings
• Why Pray: Because Prayer is the Supreme Exerciser of our Faith
• Why Pray: Because Jesus taught that Work and Prayer are Equally Effective at Changing the World

• John 1:29-46
• Are you a Finder?
• Or a Seeker?

• John 16:4-11
• Does the Holy Spirit speak to the world?
• How does the Holy Spirit speak?
• The Holy Spirit’s talking points with the world

• John 7:37-39
• What Scripture is Jesus quoting in John 7?
• Ezekiel’s Vision of the Temple

• John 11: 1-7

• 1 Peter 3:1-15a

• Mark 5:21-43

• Acts 26:9-18

• Mark 3:13-19

• Mark 7:6-13

• Luke 4:40-43
• Mark 1:1

• Luke 4:16-22
• John 20:19-23

• Ephesians 3:1-7

• Acts 10

• 1 Timothy 4:7b-11

• Acts 2:1-39

• Mark 14:35-36; Galatians 4:4-6; Romans 8:15-17

• Matthew 9:9; Mark 1:16-18; John 21:18-22; Revelation 14:4b

• John 11:1-45

• 1 Timothy 1:12-14

• 2 Corinthians 5:16-17

• Genesis 1:1 – Revelation 22:21

• 1 Corinthians 12:12-27

• Isaiah 1:18; John 14:23

• January 17, 2009

• October 19, 1922 – December 12, 2008

• Hebrews 10:24-25

• I Thessalonians 5:12-13

• Jeremiah 48:11-12

• Genesis 4:1-5; Hebrews 11:4

• Hebrews 11:5-6

• Hebrews 11:7

• Hebrews 11:8-10

• Hebrews 11:11

• Hebrews 11:23

• Hebrews 11:31; Joshua 2; Joshua 6:20-25

• Hebrews 11:9-10; 11:13-16; 11:39-40

• John 1:1-2

The Transforming Power of the God who Became Small and Insignificant

• John 1:3-4

Learning how to embrace Mystery and Encourage Wonder

• John 1:5-9

• Genesis 3:1-7

• Luke 22:39-46

• Acts 2

• Luke 16:1-13

• Luke 16:1-13

• I Thessalonians 5:12-13

• John 21:1-19

• Isaiah 53:10-12

• Isaiah 53:1-9

• Part III of Bob’s three part series on becoming Imitators of God based on Ephesians 5:1

• Part II of Bob’s three part series on becoming Imitators of God based on Ephesians 5:1

• Part I of Bob’s three part series on becoming Imitators of God based on Ephesians 5:1

• Part III of Bob’s three part series on the Incarnation based on Ephesians 4:7-13

• Part II of Bob’s three part series on the Incarnation based on Philippians 2:5-11

• Part I of Bob’s three part series on the Incarnation based on 1 Peter 1:8-12

• Part II of Bob’s two part series on Taming the Tongue based on Ephesians 4:25

• Part I of Bob’s two part series on Taming the Tongue based on Ephesians 4:29

• Part VI of Bob’s 6 part series examining Jesus’ Vision for the Church from Acts 1:11

• Part V of Bob’s 6 part series examining Jesus’ Vision for the Church from Matthew 20:25-27

• Part IV of Bob’s 6 part series examining Jesus’ Vision for the Church from John 17:20-21

• Part III of Bob’s 6 part series examining Jesus’ Vision for the Church from John 13:34-35

• Part II of Bob’s 6 part series examining Jesus’ Vision for the Church from Matthew 16:13-19

• An introduction to Bob’s 6 part series examining Jesus’ Vision for the Church as revealed in the New Testament

• A message concerning the incredible power of prayer taken from Matthew 18:15-22

• A sermon given on September 2, 2001 which challenges the currenttrend among Christians to look for a “How to …” about everything.Paul’s recipe for Life found in the book of Colossians is not a how to – but points us allto the essentials: As you received Christ – so walk in Him

• A message of hope born out the challenges of havingyour child suffer under a chronic illness with no known cure. Deliveredthe week after Easter, 1998. Note: Our daughter Abby was healed just 2 weeks after this sermon!

• A short story about a doctor on an ill-fated deer hunting trip