Resources in Psalms
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Celebrating the New Year Well
- Happy New Year…it’s very unusual to have a year like this one, where Christmas and New Year’s Day fall on Sundays…I realize that if one does, then the other does too…but with leap years and how that affects the calendar…I suppose there’s only a handful of times in a pastor’s entire ministry that I…Read More -
Jesus Can Make Things Right
[This brief message preceded our 2010 Christmas musical entitled God Coming Down.] - Have you ever been in a really tight spot…and had somebody come up and put their arm around you and say…It’s going to be all right?... - we probably all have…that’s a fairly common way to express to comfort to a person…Read More -
Finding Hope - ABF Year Review
Introduction: 1. Today is a different day in our ABF’s –we’re wrapping up our series on … “Finding Hope” - we all need hope at various times in our lives . . . every day! - the issue is: Where are you going to go to get it? OR Who or what are you…Read More -
Bad Things Happen to Good People - Another Look
- Introduction - in 1981, a brand new book was published entitled When Bad Things Happen to Good People…[show pic]…the author is Harold Kushner who is described by his publisher as a conservative Jewish rabbi… - this book was on the New York Times’ bestseller list for months, and has sold well over 4 million…Read More -
Seeking God’s Plan For His Kingdom Reign in 2009
I think we need to spend one more week on Seeking God’s Plan..Let me tell you why… Back in September…I heard about the financial crisis that struck our banking institutions. Now, I’m no Economic Einstein. I’m not daily managing our family’s personal finances—my wife is. She gives me my monthly $40.00 allowance and I’m happy. …Read More -
Why Be Thankful
Introduction Thanksgiving is a great holiday - after all you get a day off. That is how you tell the real holidays compared to those invented by Hallmark to sell 4.5 billion dollars worth of cards. The real holidays are the days you get to sleep in for!! Normally thanksgiving has something to do…Read More -
The Discipline of Delighting in the Scripture
- would you agree with me this morning that what you eat (consume with your body) affects your physical health?...that’s not a hard case to make, is it… - when I first came here 21 years ago, I had the privilege of serving under Pastor Bill Goode for 8 years as his…Read More -
The Discipline of Delighting in Our Service
- Some of you have probably heard of a restaurant in Chicago called Ed Debevic’s... - it’s not known for the quality of their food or reasonableness of their prices… - you can kind of get a feel for what the place is all about by the sign out front in this picture… -…Read More -
The Foundation of Our Discipline
- As I mentioned earlier before Carolynn’s testimony, today is the beginning of Stewardship Month at our Church… - God’s Word uses many different metaphors, or word pictures, to help us understand what is involving in being a faithful follower of Jesus Christ…and one of those words is “steward”…in places like 1 Corinthians 4:2…Read More -
A Plan and Process for Reading the Word of God
This year our church Theme will be “Seeking God’s Plan”. So many people in churches like ours need direction. They are in a state of lostness and they might not even realize it Introduction It reminds me of a story told by Joe Stowell about his son Matthew: We were on our annual Christmas…Read More -
The Perfection of Heaven
- Thank you for attending our Christmas Eve candlelight service... - I’d like to begin by asking you a couple of very important questions... 1. Do you want to go to heaven?... - is that where you would like to spend eternity?... - at our church this Christmas Season we’ve been talking about Reaching…Read More -
Bowing Down Wisely
1- Thank you for coming today to our Christmas Musical entitled All Bow Down. - you know, the concept of bowing down is a rather prominent theme in Scripture...and I’d like us to take a few moments and think about Bowing Down Wisely - here’s some of what we learn in God’s Word...first,... 1.…Read More -
The Stewardship of Thanksgiving
- every so often we become aware of a story that is nothing short of scandalous... - this week in Iraq American soldiers were handing out toys to children... - and then a suicide bomber walked into the middle of that scene and detonated his vest... - three of the children, and three of…Read More -
The Knowledge of God and the Crossroads of Life
When you hear the question: Would you like to go shopping this evening? What goes through your mind? For some … “Yes! Count me in and we are going to shop till we drop!” For others… “Do we have to? I am going to be bored out of my mind. These reactions are often…Read More -
The Mercy of God
- imagine what it would be like if we did not have the Bible, and we were trying to understand the Person and work of God... -and let’s suppose that we weren’t starting with a blank slate because we lived in a culture that had all sorts of gods and goddesses from which to…Read More -
The Justice of God
-Intro—Do we have any Token fans here today? In JR. Tolken’s Lord of the Rings Series Sauran the Evil Force in Tolken’s Fictional Middle Earth is on the rise to dominate and control all of middle earth for his good pleasure. The evil armies of Mordor are plundering villages and striving to annihilate the…Read More -
Responding to Our Knowledge of God - Power
Introduction: 1. We’re continuing our new series today in our Worship Service: Reaching New Heights in Our Knowledge of God! - our goal is to further APPLY the subject to our lives as an ABF, so we’ve entitle our ABF study: Responding to Our Knowledge of God 2. Remember the words if Daniel: Daniel…Read More -
Properly Responding to the Presence of God
Introduction I would like to begin this morning by having us think about two different aspects of being alone. The first is called loneliness – It is the time when we want companionship and yet no companionship is available. Examples of this aspect of being alone are practically boundless. I was reminded of the…Read More -
How Can We All Get Along? part 2
Introduction: 1. We’re continuing our NEW series in connection with the NEW Worship series: Building Strong Families and Relationships! - our first study today is: Why Can’t We All Get Along?[we’ll finish that today] - and then we want to move into to the answers to the Q:HOW can we all Get Along? 2. …Read More -
How Can We All Get Along? part 1
Introduction: 1. We’re continuing our NEW series in connection with the NEW Worship series: Building Strong Families and Relationships! - our first study today is: Why Can’t We All Get Along?[we’ll finish that today] - and then we want to move into to the answers to the Q:HOW can we all Get Along? 2. …Read More
