God longs to deliver us from all enemies, even the small things, to satisfy us fully with Himself. King David wrote Psalm 18 in celebration of God defeating all of his enemies and rescuing him from Saul. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had a large army or the king of an...

I’ve heard this advertisement on the radio for some financial company that has the tagline: “The biggest no-brainer in the history of earth.” Well, if anything deserves that tagline, it’s gotta be the worship and praise of the Lord our God. This passage repeats a...

Ah, the always wonderful story of Zaccheus, conjuring up lovely little Bible songs as well as a great visual of a little man climbing up into a tree. But the Zaccheus story, much like the rich young man two weeks ago, is a difficult story. Jesus’ call really involves being generous...

Jesus enters Jericho and Zacchaeus wants to see him. He was vertically-challenged (read short), and got into a tree so he could Jesus as he passed by. Zacchaeus was an important man, and he may have been able to muscle his way through the crowd, but he decides to climb a tree. As Jesus reaches...

In 1992, a guy named Michael began visiting Buckhead Community Church (now CCC). He sat on the very back row every Sunday and bolted from the auditorium the second the service concluded. After months of this, he began to hang around the lobby after the service. Members of the church began to...