| Download Audio | Download Notesheet | Download Video | This week, I tackled one of the most damaging kinds of regrets we can face. It's the kind of regret that comes from being victimized. And the most dangerous part about it is that we can bury our sense of victimization rather than deal with …
037-01 What if I hadn’t?
| Download Audio | Download Notesheet | Regrets can be a powerful force in our lives whether we are aware of them or not. In this message, I deal with the difficult task of facing our regrets and coming to terms with them. This is the first in a series of messages on getting unchained from our …
036-07 Why We Do What We Do
| Download Audio | Download Notesheet | Download Video | In this message, I deal with the question of why Southside Church exists in the first place and why we do what we are doing as a church. This vision message concludes our WHY campaign! …
Do Supernovae Give Evidence of a Young Earth?
In light of my recent message on science and the Bible and how they relate, some friends pointed me to Answers in Genesis, a website that attempts to explain and defend the position that God created the earth in 6 literal 24 hour days no more than 10,000 years ago. I've long desired to see real …
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Why People Believe Strange Things
Here is a very interesting talk by a skeptic on why people believe strange things. …
Questions on Theistic Evolution
NOTE: These questions were emailed to me and I thought they were worth posting here! These come from David Hynes, a deep-thinking guy who's been coming to our church since our Grand Opening. Hey Jeff! I didn't see how to post comments on your blog, so I decided to email instead. I'll go …
036-06 Why Jesus?
Click to Play In this message, I address Jesus' claims to exclusivity. Why do Christians believe that Jesus is the only way to God? Isn't that narrow-minded? Well, that's what Jesus taught, so we need to understand what he meant! …
Is religion a product of evolution?
Here's another video clip that can hopefully provoke some discussion about the relationship between faith and science and whether or not religion is the product of evolutionary processes. Watch it if you can and tell me what you think! …
Ken Miller on the Evolution of Humans
What do you think of this video? …
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036-05 Why Do Science and the Bible Conflict?
| Download Audio | Download Notesheet | For over 500 years, the church has been in conflict of some kind with scientific minded people. Why is that? What's the solution? In this message, I deal with the apparent conflict between science and the Bible, cover some ground in the Creation vs. …
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Addressing the Issue of Science and Faith
In light of our current discussion in the WHY campaign, I'm posting here links to a couple articles I have written here. I hope they are informative and helpful. Science v. Religion Angels Demons and the Scientific Method …
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How to Feed the Homeless
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A Better Way to Fight
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036-04 Why Is the World So Messed Up?
| Download Audio | Download Notesheet | If you had the power to stop it, how much pain would you allow a loved one to experience before intervening? That's the question Pastor Jeff leads with in this message. The fourth week of our WHY> campaign has me teaching about how we can believe in a good …
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Why does God demand total submission?
At Southside Church, we have been going through a churchwide campaign called, WHY> 40 Days Pursuing Answers to Life's Biggest Questions. I haven't posted the sermons yet, but we're just finishing our second week of the program, and already I've been challenged with some pretty big …
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Great Weekend… Or Not?
This is just a quick post to say that I had a really fun weekend on one hand and a really bad weekend on the other. At T.G.I. Friday's (where I just started to work part-time as a waiter), I had a section of two tables only, but in the brief couple hours of lunch, I managed to make over $30 in …