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Growing Strong in Service
Please Note: the full transcript is available in the Manuscript link above. Psalm 138:3 - On the day I called, You answered me; You made me bold with strength in my soul. 1. Shoring up foundational areas in our walk with Christ and our church ministries that comprise the basis of godliness and effective community…Read More -
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
