Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
I almost named this series, The Agony of Failed Expectations. Among us as a church, things are not at all what we expected them to be. If fifty years ago people knew for a fact that the 2000's would begin with: (1) more financial worth in buildings, parking lots, and ...
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Please get your Bibles and read with me.
Matthew 9:14-17,
9:14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" 9:15 And Jesus said to them, "Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Read with me as we listen to John 8:21-30:
8:21 Again he said to them, "I go away, and you will seek me and die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come." 8:22 Then said the Jews, "Will he kill himself, since he says, 'Where I am going, ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Let's begin with a reading this morning. Please take a Bible and read with me.
John 6:31-40
6:31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" 6:32 Jesus then said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it was ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
May we begin with this reading:
John 5:19-30,
5:19 Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does likewise. 5:20 For the Father loves the Son, ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
It was early October. The first frost had not yet come, but the mornings were cool and the evenings were hot. It was that unique time of the year when you shivered in the morning and sweated in the afternoon.
A 25 year-old man who grew up on a local farm ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
Acts 8:1-3
8:1 And Saul was consenting to his death. And on that day a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the region of Judea and Sama'ria, except the apostles. 8:2 Devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him. 8:3 But ...
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
This evening I want to do something I have wanted to do for some time. This evening we will discuss the concept of integrity." I want us to think from the scripture together much as we would in a class. I want you involved in our thinking together. I want ...
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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
I want to begin by inviting you to read with me from Mark 5:25-34.
5:25 And there was a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years, 5:26 and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Matthew 26:57-68
26:57 Then those who had seized Jesus led him to Ca'iaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered. 26:58 But Peter followed him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards to see ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
This morning I want to begin with a word association. The word I want you to think about is the word chaos. When you hear the word chaos what other word or words instantly come to mind?
The two words that most commonly come to people's minds when they hear or ...
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Satan does not have a one battalion, one gun army. He is a capable enemy who can and does wage a deadly warfare with people in every form of existence on every front in life. Satan has such an arsenal of weapons that there (a) is no level of spiritual ...
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
What makes physical life a land of bondage to some and a land of opportunity to others?
For some life is always a land of bondage. In all circumstances, all they ever see is trouble. Nothing ever works for their advantage. All blessings turn to bitterness. Even with good health, a ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
A person cannot read the book of Acts with open eyes and open heart and not be amazed at the actions and activities of men and women who were the first Christians. Can you imagine people so converted to Christ on a pilgrimage that they refused to return home when ...
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Would you like to see Satan utterly defeated? Would you like to see him flounder helplessly in total confusion? Would you like to see him fall flat on his face completely disoriented? Would you like to see his power evaporate, his strength fail, and his throne destroyed? Most Christians would ...
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