Resources in Matthew
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Planning and Praying for Faith West
- suppose I told you that 18 months from now you were going to receive a tremendous windfall?... - perhaps you were going to receive a large inheritance… - or maybe someone is going to give you a lottery ticket (cuz I know you’d never but one) and it is going to turn out to…Read More -
Fixing Your Focus
- what a great a Christmas Hymn – reminding us of what the angels did on the first Christmas… - and what an unusual phrase with which to end the song… - glory to the newborn King… - there’s a lot of words that often come to mind when we think about newborns…but king isn’t…Read More -
6 Words Every Relationship Needs: #4-Forgiveness
- one of the first lessons that many of us learned when we started driving a car was the importance of changing your oil on a regular basis… - my dad drilled that lesson into his kids…he would constantly encourage us to go out and check our oil or quiz us about the last time…Read More -
When You Give and Receive Nothing in Return
- Let me ask you to consider this question this morning… - should you put more into a relationship than you expect out of it?... - I think it would be very interesting to have a conversation this morning with a group like this just about that question… - because I would really love to…Read More -
A Church That Loves Its Community
- Well, have you enjoyed the conference so far?... - our overall theme this year is…More than Counseling: a Vision for the Entire Church. - And we have been helped greatly by what Dr. Mohler and Nicolas Ellen have presented to us… - now in this hour, my assignment is to try to make all…Read More -
Prayer series review
REVIEW: 1. After looking back over the last few weeks, I decided it might be BETTER to take a FINAL PASS at: Taking the Next Step: In Our Spiritual Growth of PRAYER! - this is such an important subject, that we don’t want to just ‘deal with it’ and move on - we really…Read More -
God’s Protection in Prayer
REVIEW: 1. This is our FINAL study of our NEW series: Taking the Next Step: In Our Spiritual Growth of PRAYER! - keep reminding yourself of this principle which goes along with our 2010 Church Theme: > If you’re going to make progress, you have to keep moving! . . . keep taking steps…Read More -
God’s Pardon Through Prayer
REVIEW: 1. We are continuing our NEW series: Taking the Next Step: In Our Spiritual Growth of PRAYER! - keep reminding yourself of this principle which goes along with our 2010 Church Theme: > If you’re going to make progress, you have to keep moving! . . . keep taking steps to reach the…Read More -
God’s Provisions Through Prayer
Introduction: 1. We are continuing our NEW series: Taking the Next Step: In Our Spiritual Growth of PRAYER! - keep reminding yourself of this principle which goes along with our 2010 Church Theme: > If you’re going to make progress, you have to keep moving! . . . keep taking steps to reach the…Read More -
God’s Pattern For Prayer, Part 2
Introduction: 1. We are continuing our NEW series: Taking the Next Step: In Our Spiritual Growth of PRAYER! - the point we’re trying to make with our 2010 Church Theme is this: If you’re going to make progress, you have to keep moving! . . . keep taking steps to reach the goal of…Read More -
God’s Pattern For Prayer, Part 1
1. Last week, we began a NEW series: Taking the Next Step: In Our Spiritual Growth of PRAYER! Point: If you’re going to make progress, you have to keep moving! - that’s true from a practical/daily life perspective as well as SPIRITUALLY! 2. We’re doing this because the Bible places a strong emphasis on…Read More -
God’s Precautions for Prayer
Introduction: 1. Think about this phrase (it’s really profound!!): If you’re going to make progress, you have to keep moving! - you can’t be stagnate, you can’t stand still, or not put forth any effort and expect to make any progress in whatever you’re facing or trying to accomplish - that’s true from a…Read More -
Hope in Instruction
Introduction: - We’re into our 5th week of our series: Finding Hope in the Wonderful Counselor - since we all are in need of hope at various times in our lives (every day), the issue is: Where are you going to go to get it? - what better place than from the Wonderful Counselor…Read More -
Prayer
Introduction: - We are continuing our series this morning on: Finding Hope in the Promises of God - two weeks ago we studied 1 Cor. 10:13: 1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond…Read More -
Worry Turns Your Head
- Let’s begin our time this am with a question…Are human beings easily distracted? - what do you think?...most of us would pretty quickly respond with a “yes” on that one… - now please brace yourself – this might hurt a little bit…Are you easily distracted?... - Isn’t it amazing how many ways that…Read More -
Worry Leads You Astray
- Would you agree with me this morning that Christians ought to have a unique approach to life that is clearly apparent to the people around them?... - in other words – if you’re going to say that you’re a follower of Christ—that Jesus is your Lord…then you ought to act like it, or…Read More -
Worry Offends Your Father
- One of the saddest stories in the Old Testament involves one of God’s finest and best known servants, a man by the name of Moses… - if you’re familiar with Scripture, you know that Moses was the one who was chosen by God to lead the children of Israel out of the country of…Read More -
Worry Wastes Your Time
- How many of you would say this morning that you really enjoy wasting time?... - If we looked at your Day-timer or whatever scheduling system you use…would we find that each morning in your list of goals for the day you faithfully write down the words – “waste time…”…I’m not sure what else…Read More -
Worry Steals Your Hope
- if you’ve paid any attention at all to our culture this week, you know that our president has completed his 100th day in office… - you would know that because President Obama himself gave a speech marking that particular milestone, but also because many of the news outlets believed it was important to…Read More -
Worry Makes You Small
- Many of you have probably seen the children’s movie “Honey I Shrunk the Kids…” - Nutty inventor Wayne Szalinski attempts to build a machine capable of shrinking objects to 1% of their original size… - of course like most inventions, at first Szalinski’s doesn’t work just right which frustrates him to no end……Read More
