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  • How To Not Waste Your Potential

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 57 ratings
     | 6,737 views

    Steps to avoiding your God given potential

    The Lord gives every person great potential, but few seem to come close to realizing it. Illustration: Samson possessed great potential for God, but gave into temptations that eventually destroyed him. Why do so many people with great promise fritter away their opportunities? Let us look at the ...read more

  • How Jesus' Life And Ministry Contrasted With The Pharisaical Religious Leaders

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 21 ratings
     | 4,245 views

    Jesus’ values were based on loving the Lord with all of one’s heart, soul, strength and mind. (Luke 10:27) The Pharisees’ values were rooted in their traditions and their religious laws

    How Jesus’ Life and Ministry Contrasted With the Pharisaical Religious Leaders Illustration:The trouble oftentimes with religious people is that they try to be more spiritual than God himself. Frederick Buechner. 1. Jesus’ values were based on loving the Lord with all of one’s heart, soul, ...read more

  • How Jesus Exercised Discerning Judgments

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 50 ratings
     | 3,686 views

    People often misunderstand one statement that Jesus made, "Judge not less you be judged yourself." (Matthew 7:1) Actually, Jesus taught that no one should try to play God by assuming a position as the final judge of what is right

    How Jesus Exercised Discerning Judgments People often misunderstand one statement that Jesus made, "Judge not less you be judged yourself." (Matthew 7:1) Actually, Jesus taught that no one should try to play God by assuming a position as the final judge of what is right. The Lord showed amazing ...read more

  • How The Holy Spirit Helps Us Love One Another

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 44 ratings
     | 31,674 views

    There are fifteen characteristics of love in this passage that the Holy Spirit enables us to express with power if we will let Him

    How the Holy Spirit Helps Us Love One Another Illustration:In his book Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis wrote, "Do not waste your time bothering whether you ’love’ your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this, we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, ...read more

  • How The Holy Spirit Convicts Abusers Of Power

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 52 ratings
     | 3,722 views

    How to not be overcome by power abusers but to overcome with God’s goodness, love and truth

    How the Holy Spirit Convicts Abusers of Power Illustration:In The Christian Leader, Don Ratzlaff retells a story Vernon Grounds came across in Ernest Gordon’s Miracle on the River Kwai. The Scottish soldiers, forced by their Japanese captors to labor on a jungle railroad, had degenerated to ...read more

  • How The Holy Spirit Helps You Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 48 ratings
     | 8,994 views

    How the Holy Spirit Helps You Love Your Neighbor as Yourself - Phil. 2:1-7

    How the Holy Spirit Helps You Love Your Neighbor as Yourself - Phil. 2:1-7 1. The Holy Spirit helps you love your neighbor as yourself by giving you greater understanding into their needs and concerns. Paul wrote, "In humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not ...read more

  • How Paul Showed Us How To Cope With Perplexing Ironies

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 35 ratings
     | 5,104 views

    How Paul Showed Us How to Cope With Perplexing Ironies 2 Cor. 6:7-10 (Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing)

    How Paul Showed Us How to Cope With Perplexing Ironies - 2 Cor. 6:7-10 Illustration:Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: To choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s way. Viktor Frankl, concentration camp survivor. Philippians 2:12-18. 1. Paul, ...read more

  • Are You Status Quo Oriented Or Harvest Oriented?

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 44 ratings
     | 3,631 views

    Are You Status Quo Oriented or Harvest Oriented? Criteria for being more harvest oriented in all aspects of your ministry outlook

    Characteristics of Maintenance Minded People Characteristics of Harvest Oriented People (Matt 9:36-38) Pray to the Lord of the harvest to send forth workers into His harvest fields. Illustration:How Do You Look at It? A shoe manufacturer who decided to open the Congo market sent two salesmen to ...read more

  • What Are Your Priorities

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 67 ratings
     | 9,839 views

    What Are Your Priorities? (Rom. 6:16)

    What Are Your Priorities? (Rom. 6:16) Illustration:Haddon Robinson points out that one old recipe for rabbit started out with this injunction: "First catch the rabbit." Says Robinson: "The writer knew how to put first things first. That’s what we do when we establish priorities -- we put the ...read more

  • Who's In Charge Of Your Desires?

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 84 ratings
     | 7,281 views

    Who’s In Charge of Your Desires? (Rom. 6:12-14)

    Who’s In Charge of Your Desires? (Rom. 6:12-14) Illustration:Former pro basketball star Bill Bradley tells that at the age of 15 he attended a summer basketball camp that was run by Easy Ed Macauley, a former college and pro star. "Just remember that if you’re not working at your game to the ...read more

  • "Buckle Up"

    Contributed by Mark Hensley on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 130 ratings
     | 10,061 views

    This message you may be interested to know isn’t really about weather you should wear your seatbelts, it is how ever about a Christians responsibility to observe the laws of the land.

    Introduction: Mandatory seatbelt laws, the talk of Greeley in recent days! I am not sure what your position is on the subject. Opinions have varied in recent newspaper letters to the editor. One resident’s philosophy is that it shouldn’t be forced on people, after all she wrote when it’s ...read more

  • Advancement Of The Gospel

    Contributed by Don Baggett on Sep 27, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,614 views

    The Holy Spirit came and empowered the believers, who were praying in the upper room, and then things really started happening. The people who had become believers in Christ decided not to go back home, but to stay right there in Jerusalem where the acti

    The book of Acts may be listed in your Bible as the “Acts of the Apostles,” but these titles are not part of the inspired text. These titles have been added a long time after the text was given to men by the inspiration of God. The same thing is true about chapter divisions, verse numbers, and ...read more

  • Our Response

    Contributed by Jay Mcphearson on Sep 28, 2008
     | 2,835 views

    “Our Response to the confession is movement toward Christ.”

    Matthew 16:16-20 If you would like the powerpoint -- email me with this title in the subject line and I will email it to you for free. “Our Response” “Our Response to the confession is movement toward Christ.” Sunday Morning Sermon 9.28.08 Intro: (Start with title and text) Suppose for just a ...read more

  • The Radical Gospel

    Contributed by Ian Lyall on Oct 11, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,732 views

    Is the Gospel we preach, and the God we preach the same as Paul had preached to the Thessalonians in AD 49?

    The first epistle to the Thessalonian, of which we just heard the first chapter, is the earliest of Paul’s writings. We read in Acts chapter 17 of his visit to Thessalonica (modern-day Salonika) in the year 49; of how he preached in the synagogue for two Sabbaths, but was then driven from the city ...read more

  • Let Me Not Be Ashamed

    Contributed by Carl Allen on Oct 21, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,430 views

    As Christians that last thing we need to be is ashamed, especially about what our savior has done for us.

    Let Me Not be Ashamed Psalm 31:1-24 Intro The Psalmist is engaging in prayer before the Lord here. As he pours out his heart, it becomes clear that he is going through a difficult time spiritually. His prayer is for the Lord not to fail him. His desire is to be vindicated in the presence of ...read more