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Peter's final call to a young and growing church
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Gifts, risk, and the return of the King
How do we view the cross during this Lenten Season that speaks to us in a meaningful way? Is the cross applicable to our 21st century life?
Iliff and Saltillo UM Church Third Sunday of Lent February 27, 2005 “God’s Foolishness and God’s Wisdom” I Corinthians 1:18-25 INTRODUCTION: Story: When a group of churches advertized their Easter services, no reference was made to the cross. This omission was deliberate. One church ...read more
Scripture: Romans 1:18-25
Denomination: Methodist
William Blake poem: “I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see; I sought my God, but my God eluded me; I sought my neighbor, and I found all three.”
A woman once told of her experience as a Church secretary. When she answered the phone she’d say, “Jesus loves you, Sharon speaking. How may I help you?” But one day she got distracted because she was talking to others in the office. When the phone rang, she answered: “Sharon loves you, Jesus ...read more
Scripture: John 13:31-35
Denomination: Catholic
A look at how God challenges the way way we think, act and look at Him.
God’s Challange Mark 8 We all have times in our lives when we feel that God isn’t there. In the verses of Chapter 8 of the book of Mark give us a wonderful understanding of how we need to look at life in those times of drought. Let’s start looking at scripture this morning: ...read more
Scripture: Mark 8:1-37
Denomination: Baptist
We need to carefully tend the fire of God in our lives. Here’s how.
"The Fire Of God" [Leviticus 6:8-13] How many of you have or had wood stoves? They may cut back on your fuel bill, but they require lots of time and attention. These days lots of people have pellet stoves. Less work than wood stoves, but still more economical than fuel or natural gas. In the ...read more
Scripture: Leviticus 6:8-13
Denomination: Pentecostal
Sermon looks at 7 tests to see if an impression is from God or not. (Acknowledgement - Rick Warren)
HOW TO HEAR GOD’S VOICE Learning to Hear God’s Voice - Part 3 of 4 I John 4:1-3 (Living Bible) o We’re continuing in our series on How to hear God’s voice. Last week we talked about four ways you can hear God speak. One of the ways is God gives us impressions in our mind. o But if God gives me ...read more
Scripture: 1 John 4:1-3
I “fool proof” my life when I live based on the truth that God is God and I am not .
Engagement/Tension Let me begin this morning with a question: How many of you have made one or more foolish decisions in your life? I certainly have and if you’re honest I’m pretty sure all of you have done that too. • Maybe for some of you kids in school, it was the decision not to study for a ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 1:1-7
how to apply God's love
Unconditional love of God If there is a word that everyone knows, I bet that word is love. In the whole world, in every language there is a word: love, now everyone says they know love however do we really understand love. Arabic: ??? Chinese: ?? Czech: láska Danish: kærlighed Dutch: liefde ...read more
Scripture: 1 John 4:7-12, Romans 12:9-16
Denomination: Charismatic
What does it mean to please God? How can we please God?
Pleasing God . . . IT’S A PLEASURE Dr. Lewis Gregory 1. Parent-child Illustration: One of the unique features of the parent-child relationship is that children have a natural desire to please their parents. In the same way, we as children of God desire to please our Heavenly Father. ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 3:17
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
What does God say about government and how are we to deal with it?
We the People in America are still trying to find out what type of government we will have in the next 4 years. Too many of us are anxious of our government. Isn’t interesting that we just finished talking about what the future will be? You already know the answer, but this morning, let us remind ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 2:1-3, Genesis 2:15-17, Genesis 3:6-7, Romans 13:1-7, Acts 5:27-29, 1 Timothy 2:1-4 (view more) (view less)
Denomination: Independent/Bible
Is the evidence of God’s existence visible? How would we discuss this with an atheist?
Is the evidence of God’s existence visible? An ancient songwriter wrote: “The heavens tell of the glory of God; And their expanse declares the work of His hands. Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words; Their voice is not heard. ...read more
Scripture: Psalm 19:1-6, Job 38:2-12, Romans 1:18-25, Romans 1:26-32, Job 12:7-10 (view more) (view less)
We will look at how God brought the nation of Israel out of Egypt through HIS sanctification through which they were saved from the Angel of Death. We will also see the manner by which God led the nation to the Red Sea. God seeks to lead us today if we
Saved, Sanctified, and Led by God Saved and Sanctified by blood at God’s Command Led in Safety by God DBF Sunday Sermon, 10/13/02, Exodus 13 I have often said that I had no personal desire to come to Dillingham but for God’s call. I had no ideas about whether Dillingham was a good place or a ...read more
Scripture: Exodus 13:1-22
How we can know we know God through opposition, growth, and salvation.
Where is God? How we can know that we know God. 020409 Illus: We have a "Christian Cat"…she lays on the Bible! But having a Bible doesn’t mean you know God! How can we know we know God? Background: The church in Acts is coming out of its “honeymoon” phase of Pentecost and going through some hard ...read more
This sermon takes a look at problems associated with handling money and then explains God’s plan for handling money.
How does money affect you? Money is a subject with which all of us struggle. For some it is lack of money. For some it is the desire for money. For some it is wrong use of money. For some it is poor investment of money. A man named stumpy illustrates how money affects people. Stumpy and his wife ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 6:25-34, Genesis 1:1-2
Do you know what are human’s three great faults? It leads us to know why we can never reach God ourselves. But we also see in chapter three how God does what we cannot.
There are three great faults in humanity—three great reasons why we have such a hard time as a race accepting the good news of Jesus Christ. Those reasons are that we are self sufficient, self justifying, and self focused. Self sufficient means we can do it ourselves, we can create goodness, we can ...read more
Scripture: Romans 3:1-31
Denomination: Calvary Chapel
A sermon that looks at the temptation of Jesus and encourages people to see the importance of God’s agenda in their lives.
Someone once said Have you ever wondered why opportunity knocks once – yet temptation bangs on the door constantly? Do you find this true? Supermarkets are aware that we are easily tempted. Why do you think they place lollies, soft drinks and magazines at near the cash registers where we have to ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 4:1-11
Denomination: Lutheran
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