Prayer was Daniel’s fall back because prayer was Daniel’s habit.
Daniel 6:6-11
November 6, 2011
Pillars crumble
Sometimes everything you’ve counted on is pulled from underneath you. One of those times for Linda and me was in January 1988.  The summer before we believed God had called us to leave a church position in Reidsville, NC, go to seminary [...]

Don’t waste your night.
Daniel 5:1-31
October 30, 2011
Spooky story
I didn’t choose Daniel 5 for the Halloween weekend sermon, but if I had been looking for an appropriate Bible story with a strong spook factor, this would have to be it.  The top three stories that come to mind that would be most appropriate for this weekend [...]

Success is humility’s greatest enemy.
Daniel 4:19-27
October 23, 2011
Pride and humility
We come today to the fourth and final of the stories that connect a Jewish man named Daniel to a Babylonian king named Nebuchadnezzar.  We’re not done with Daniel yet – there are more stories about Daniel’s relationship to other kings. 
Daniel 4 has a familiar [...]

“In the end, I won.”
Daniel 3:8-16
October 13, 2011
Remember the Name
At the risk of starting the sermon on a note so depressing that it may be difficult to recover, it’s hard for me not to connect today’s text in Daniel to the Jewish Holocaust.

Golden heads crumble.
Daniel 2:44-49
October 9, 2011
Behind the text
The stories in Daniel 1-6 are self-contained but connected. Last week in chapter one we saw Daniel, a wide-eyed teenager, discern boundaries.  His decision not to eat the king’s food gave us some principles for making decisions about honoring God.