Ryan Paulson
Sermons
Devotionals
As I fly home from New Orleans I am left wondering how I might respond to a situation so devastating and seemingly without hope. As I wrote yesterday, I do believe that there is hope,...
Today I had the chance to take a tour of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29th, 2005. That’s about 2.5 years ago. You would think that the city would be well...
I’m taking a few more classes of seminary this semester. Striving towards the finish line of the MDIV… it awaits only a few years off. I’m taking a class called “Celebrating Diversity and Embracing Unity.”...
This week I have been thinking a lot about worship. What does it mean to worship something/someone? How do we conjure up worship? How can we change the things that we worship? As I was...
Author/pilot, Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote, “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and...
As I was preparing for a message that I am teaching on community, I ran across this quote. I think Calvin is right on here: “The human mind is a factory of idols. When all...
Isn’t it true that the moments we want to freeze seem to fly by the fastest? I never really have understood why that is, but it proves true time after time. Over Christmas I had the chance...
I love watching Christmas movies. Here is a quick list of my top few favorites. Feel free to add to my list. Christmas Vacation – absolutely hilarious A Christmas Story – You’ll shoot your eye...
The other night we took the college group down to downtown San Diego to go ice-skating and have dinner together. Have you ever just had one of those nights where nothing goes right? This was...
Last year my uncle showed me a website that let’s you set up free, customized, and commercial free online radio stations. You just give them the name of an artist you like and they create...
This past weekend I gave a message on what it means to have freedom in Christ – and freedom in our lives. I am just blown away that the God of the Bible in no...
I was studying for a message last week and I was speaking on joy. We are going through a series this Christmas season called ‘Wait of the World’ and we are looking at all the...
