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David Simmons
Contributing sermons since Jan 1, 2000
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Stewardship: Trusting An Unchanging God
Contributed on Feb 22, 2002
Our love for God is best measured by the use of our resources. God wants us to offer our entire selves as living sacrifices – sold out and on fire for God through and through.
INTRODUCTION This week, I heard a sound I had not heard for at least six weeks. I was sitting at one of our city’s notoriously long red lights. There were a couple of cars in front of me, and when the light turned green, and the guy at the front of the line had was also slow off the light. In ...read more
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Love: God's Divine Initiative
Contributed on Feb 22, 2002
What does it really mean to love? Jesus’ own incarnation gives us the answer.
BEING IN LOVE I had been dating Tara (now my wife) for some time before I finally got the nerve to say it – you know – those big three words that mark the point of no return in a relationship. We had been out on a date, and I had pulled up to her dorm and was about to let her out when I said to ...read more
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Making Something Of Bad Apples
Contributed on Jan 18, 2001
God has given each of us the opportunity, the freedom to choose for ourselves so he could have a genuine relationship with us.
Well… I have to confess that for some time now, I have been harboring a deep-rooted fear. It began several years ago as a 22 year old Summer Youth Worker. Our pastor had left; we were in an interim period, and it looked as if I might have to step in and preach on Father’s Day. But you know you ...read more
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Building Walls That Last
Contributed on Jan 18, 2001
How the church can develop a passion for fulfilling her mission
COWBOY FOOTBALL Well, God is still in control. I learned that this past Monday night. God still is a Cowboy fan, I’m convinced. Only God could take the bottom dwellers of the league, the Dallas Cowboys, and help them pull out a victory against the “Super Bowl bound, 100 million dollar,” ...read more
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The Power Of Shared Suffering
Contributed on Nov 26, 2000
Because Jesus understands our suffering, we do not suffer alone.
INTRODUCTION If I were writing the Bible, I probably would have left this passage out. After all, we have here not the image of the powerful Messiah that I would like to show off, but the figure of fear and frailty. For centuries we have recognized that Jesus was all God and all man, but here it ...read more
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Dostoevsky And The Firing Squad
Contributed on Feb 22, 2002
DOSTOEVSKY AND THE FIRING SQUAD The famous Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky told the story of the time he was arrested by the czar and sentenced to die. The czar, though, liked to play cruel psychological tricks on the people who rebelled against him by blindfolding them and standing them in ...read more
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Mother Teresa Visited Australia. A New Recruit To ...
Contributed on Feb 22, 2002
Mother Teresa visited Australia. A new recruit to the monastery in Australia was assigned to be her guide and “gofer” during her stay. The young man was so thrilled and excited at the prospect of being so close to this woman. He dreamed of how much he would learn from her and what they would talk ...read more
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Condemnation Or Compassion
Contributed on Feb 22, 2002
CONDEMNATION OR COMPASSION Tony Campolo tells the story of a New York City pastor who chose to take a funeral that no other minister would take. The man who died was a homosexual who died of AIDS. The minister agreed to do the funeral. When he got to the graveside, he discovered an ...read more
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Why Would God Go To All The Trouble To Endure Our ...
Contributed on Jan 18, 2001
Why would God go to all the trouble to endure our bad choices and our flagrant sinning in order to have relationship with us? Hear the story of the lost son from the modern setting as told by Philip Yancey in his book What’s so Amazing about Grace. Yancey tells the story of a prodigal daughter ...read more
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In The Movie, A Few Good Men, A Sergeant And A ...
Contributed on Jan 18, 2001
In the movie, A Few Good Men, a sergeant and a private stand on trial for killing a fellow marine. Their lawyer, played by Tom Cruise, attempts to demonstrate that the murder was actually the result of an order that the two marines had received from a higher-up. The order to help train the ...read more