Several weeks ago we commissioned Luke and Patty Tolbert as missionaries to Latvia through the International Mission Board (See my post about them here). Here is the sermon from that Sunday.
There Will Be More Tears
“I don’t know.” That is the only answer I could muster, choking back tears, as I sat in the newly vacant office down the hall from mine. The Tolberts had just finished packing and organizing, Luke’s office was empty and he had turned in his keys (Luke Tolbert was our student and discipleship pastor for …
Don’t Be A Mission Trip Hero
As a pastor, I love it when people “get it.” When the gospel finally clicks and people get saved, when parents figure out their responsibility to spiritually shepherd their children, when men begin to share the gospel regularly, all of these are examples of people “getting it” that thrill my soul. Recently a young woman in …