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I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice
Experiencing the mercy of God in our lives
Ready & Faithful
Looking to Jesus for help now and hope in the future
Why Suffering?
Help your church understand God's plan in pain
Opening illustration with marshmallows: invite three or four from congregation who really like marshmallows - give each one a marshmallow. Ask them to hold it, wait until you’ve walked all the way around the auditorium. If they can wait until you’ve walked all the way around the auditorium, ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 3:1-19
Tags: Temptation General, Temptation Resisting
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Bernie May of Wycliffe Bible Translators wrote, "As an airplane pilot, from the first time I sat in the beginner’s seat beside my instructor I was taught to ’trust’ my instruments. ’Your instincts will fool you,’ my instructor rightly told me. ’You must learn that even though you may feel you are ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 3:1-15
Tags: Faith General
Denomination: Baptist
Let me give you a few examples of boundaries. Dr. James Dobson, in his book Love Must Be Tough, tells of a woman who allows her husband to move his lover into their home, and she thinks she is trying to hold her marriage together. However, in reality she has failed to put a boundary around her ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 11:1-9
Tags: Marriage Commitment
Denomination: Wesleyan
Sadly, we want a religion that doesn’t ask us to sacrifice, not even for a moment. Bob McFall, was a 39 yr. Old bachelor suffering from Aplastic Anemia. He needed a bone marrow transplant. A search was conducted among his family and they discovered that his first cousin was an ideal match to donate ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 2:1-3
Tags: Easter Palm Sunday
A lot of people in our society spend a lot of time blaming others for their own lack of initiative, insight, ambition, and effort. The Southern Baptists one year had a slogan for church growth that would fit us individually: “If it is to be, it is up to me.” Zig Ziglar said, “If you’re looking ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 25:31-32
Tags: New Year's Day
Seven year old Tommy had been asking his parents for a dog but they were not convinced that the family needed one. After Tommy’s repeated pleas, his dad told him if he would help his mother with chores around the house he could earn enough money to buy a dog. Tommy was more than eager to accept ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 46:1-34
Tags: Redemption, Redeemed
POEM: “I Am Just a Raindrop” The following poem was heard on Paul Harvey’s broadcast in 2004: I AM JUST A RAINDROP I am just a raindrop I was born in the sky and settled into a hillside there to dance in the sun and sparkle And nourish green and growing things But there are other raindrops on the ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 8:1-10
Tags: Rubbish
GOD POSITIONING SYSTEM I was thinking a lot about this idea that Jesus is the way. He doesn't just tell us the way, He shows us. He is kind of like one of those GPS navigation system. GPS stands for the "Global Positioning System" that was originally designed for military use, but now is open ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 12:1-12
Tags: Kindness
Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 3:8
Tags: Culture
The Weather Bureau has changed its name to Environmental Science Services Administration and we still get six inches of ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 1:1-31
Tags: Creation
"Each 24 hours, the world turns over on someone who was ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 1:1
Tags: Worldliness
"Throughout the history of courtship, unchaste women have been the most chased and ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 24:1-66
Tags: Women
BROTHER’S BROTHER Robert Hingson is a physician, an anesthesiologist, working out of Pittsburgh. A Baptist layman, he got interested in the plight of the diseased peoples of the world. He found out that thousands of the world’s children are dying from a host of contagious diseases. So Bob Hingson ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 4:9
Tags: Christian Love
MARKED MEN There is a professor at Howard University Divinity School, a teacher and scholar, with an unusual name. A name that tells this very story. The distinguished professor of New Testament, the author of the book Troubling Biblical Waters, is named Cain Hope Felder. Dr. Felder tells his ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 4:10-26
Tags: Forgiveness In Jesus
WHAT’S YOUR LIFE WORTH? It’s worth $50,000, according to the international standard used most private and government-run health insurance plans to determine whether to cover a new medical procedure. More simply, insurance companies calculate that to make a treatment worth its cost, it must ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 1:31
APE RIGHTS The Spanish Parliament’s move to grant rights previously reserved for human beings to chimpanzees and other apes is a victory for those seeking to minimize the uniqueness of humanity, a bioethics specialist says. An environmental committee in Spain’s legislature approved a resolution on ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 1:26-27
Tags: Animals
THE MIRACLE IN A BUG Shortly before his death, the legendary film producer Cecil B DeMille wrote this beautiful meditation: "One day as I was lying in a canoe, a big black beetle came out of the water and climbed up into the canoe. I watched it idly for some time. Under the heat of the sun, the ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 1:26
BROTHER LAWRENCE AND DISCIPLINES Around 1610, a child was born in France by the name Nichols Herman. Later in life, he would become known as Brother Lawrence. As a young man, he fought in the Thirty Years War and sustained a near fatal His injury to his sciatic nerve. The injury left him quite ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 6:9
Tags: Discipleship, Recognition, Seeking Christ
Who Would You Quote in Outer Space? On Christmas Day 1968, the three astronauts of Apollo 8 circled the dark side of the moon and headed for home. Suddenly, over the horizon of the moon rose the blue and white earth, garlanded by the glistening light of the sun against the black void of space. ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 1:1-5
CHOOSING TO BELIEVE WHAT'S IMPOSSIBLE Evolutionists say that life arose as a result of spontaneous generation; that it all began as inorganic matter, or pre biotic soup, a puddle of green slime. They call it a "fortuitous concourse of atoms." Doesn’t that sound intellectual? A flash of lightning ...read more
Tags: Apologetics General
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