Today, Jen and I went down to Lafayette to have a final signing meeting with Kim at Gunstra Builders. It's amazing how the finality of signing papers can really make you nervous. Last week, I was completely thrilled about every aspect of the building process even though we have already signed some …
“Salvation Challenge” Board Game
I watched this video and couldn't believe my eyes! It's a board game that is supposed to be an effective witnessing tool, but it looks to me like something right out of Ned Flanders' ( click here or click here ) game closet, and by that, I mean really creepy. From Glory to God Games: …
Evangelism Training Opportunity
Greetings all NWBC friends! I just wanted to let you all know of something that I've been wanting to do for a while and have let slide. However, Paul Witte called me up today and suggested it, and I got really excited. Paul and I are going to spearhead some evangelism outings, and this Sunday is …
029-04 — God Is Holy
SCRIPTURE: Various The second major characteristic of God that I explore is God's holiness. The simple truth is that God is unlike anything else. He is completely above and beyond our thoughts, our troubles, or anything---and yet, he loves us! God's holiness means he is better than anything …
My Blog Broke
Well, that's what I get for not staying up to date with backups. Somehow, my web host deleted all my key files from my blog database. What does that mean? It means I just wasted about half of my day trying to restore my blog to what it was like back in September. Things will be a little broken for …
Posting old sermons
I've just made some great progress posting old sermons to this site thanks to the free storage and bandwidth offered by ourmedia.com and the Internet Archive. If you look in the category links, you'll find links to all my newly posted (but old) message series dating from May 2001 through …
029-03 — God Is Eternal
SCRIPTURE: Various To help us develop a taste for God, I'm going to spend the rest of my time at Northwest Baptist highlighting seven key attributes of God. We are going to talk about who God is. In this first message, I dig into the deep concept of God being eternal. We'll find out once again that …
What’s in a name?
I posted this over at our church plant website (www.lafayetteinitiative.com), but I'm copying it here for those who don't read the other site too much. Please post your comments, and if you want to participate in our church name straw poll, click here. And whether you can participate in the poll or …
Rolling Stone Interviews Bono
This last year, my wife and I have been really infatuated with U2, the rock band. We read a book on the band called Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2 and Jen just finished a book that was one long interview with Bono. We've become convinced that aside from the theatrics of Bono's public persona …
Silliness of Worry
In preparation for a sermon recently, I came across this passage in Ecclesiastes: If clouds are full of water, they pour rain upon the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there will it lie. Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever …
I’m now on iTunes!
It's official. My sermons now can be found on iTunes! If you have been using iTunes 4.9 or higher for your music player, just open it up, and in the search box type "Jeff Mikels." After a few seconds, it will show my sermon podcast, and you can click on the "subscribe" button to automatically …
American Beauty: A Lesson in Grace
Tonight, Jen and I watched the movie American Beauty. It's really interesting to me that I had never wanted to watch the movie at all. In fact, when the movie first came out, I was kinda disgusted that a movie like that had come to the American cinema at all. The theme seemed so dark, it seemed to …
Preaching to Be Heard
At the Midwest Baptist Conference Annual Meetings a couple weeks ago, Jerry Sheveland, the president of the Baptist General Conference gave a seminar on preaching. In it, he shared his personal 10 Commandments of Preaching. Preaching to be Heard Jerry Sheveland Only two things are eternal …
MBC 2005 Annual Meetings Keynote
These are my notes from Jerry's keynote message. I'm posting them mostly for my own use, but if you benefit from them, praise God! Keynote message from the 149th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Baptist Conference by Jerry Sheveland The first seven chapters of the book of Acts tell the story of …
So Dark is Europe
Phil Gottschalk has been a missionary in Europe for a number of years, and he just sent me this unbelievable email. I'm quoting it here: Here's an e-mail I just received. It is typical of what we have experienced for the past nearly 20 years in Europe. This friend is studying Dutch in Leuven, …
029-02 — Trick or Treat
Various Scriptures The second message in this series is all about helping us truly grasp that God is the treat and everything else is only a trick. There are at least four reasons why. Listen up to find out! Download Now Subscribe to this series by dragging this link to your podcast software or …