The Art of Letting Go: Entrusting a Church into His Good Hands Don Sweeting | May 15, 2010 I am in my last days as senior pastor of our church. It’s been a season of final meetings, final services, final get-togethers and…
Blessed With A Great Mom Don Sweeting | May 8, 2010 Proverbs 1.8 “do not forsake you mother’s teaching. . . .” Her name is Margaret Hildegard Schnell. Schnell means “quick” in German. She has…
My Last Day on Pastoral Call Don Sweeting | April 9, 2010 This week I had my last day on pastoral call as I prepare to leave our church and take a new position as seminary…
Singing Praise to God with Saints and Angels: THE DOXOLOGY Don Sweeting | April 5, 2010 If you answer the question honestly, you might draw strange looks. The question being—what else did you do in church today? The proper response…
Growing Spiritually During Holy Week Don Sweeting | March 27, 2010 Do you observe Holy Week? One third of Jesus’ teaching focus on this week. One third of his works took place during this week.…
The ESV Study Bible and The Book of Eli Don Sweeting | March 6, 2010 Let me warn you at the outset, THE BOOK OF ELI is an R rated film. It is raw. It is violent. It has…
Creation, Fall, Redemption and Sea World Don Sweeting | March 4, 2010 In our November visit to Sea World, my daughter left with a stuffed Shamu (that’s the collective show name for the giant killer whales…
Why Missions? Don Sweeting | February 8, 2010 This weekend we had our church’s foreign missions banquet. We call it “world outreach” these days. But whatever we call it, it is important…
Lisbon and Haiti, God and Earthquakes, Part 1 Don Sweeting | January 26, 2010 As Haiti’s mass graves swell, the Haitian government estimates that the death toll will reach 200,000. If that proves to be true, it will…
Lisbon and Haiti, God and Earthquakes, Part 2 Don Sweeting | January 26, 2010 In response to the earthquake in Haiti, quite a number of people have seemed to settle for keeping God out of the explanation. “There…