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  • Do You Work For Your Father? Series

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Oct 6, 2004
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,481 views

    #5 in Romans 8 - What a Way to Live! series. Paul says that we can be better than just God’s servants - we can be God’s children.

    Romans 8:15-17 – Do You Work for Your Father? I’m going to give you 2 scenarios that sound almost alike but very different. This is scenario #1. Jimmy, an orphan, from a foster home, is fishing by himself on the end of a wharf. As many curious ten-year-olds would, he leans over the edge to ...read more

  • Who Loves Jesus The Most?

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Oct 6, 2004
    based on 19 ratings
     | 2,921 views

    Quick outline message of the sinful woman who anointed Jesus with perfume, and the Pharisee Simon’s response to it. Some simple thoughts of how Jesus wants us to worship.

    Luke 7:36-50 – Who Loves Jesus the Most? During the tenure of the great orator Henry Ward Beecher, a visiting minister (Beecher’s brother) once substituted for the popular pastor. A large audience had already assembled to hear Beecher, and when the substitute pastor stepped into the pulpit, ...read more

  • I Can Feel The Rush Of Lions' Breath

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Oct 12, 2004
    based on 17 ratings
     | 3,120 views

    Canadian Thanksgiving sermon about how Daniel could give thanks to God, even when faced with lions - real one, political ones, relational ones.

    Daniel 6:1-10 – I Can Feel the Rush of Lions’ Breath (NOTE: most illustrations are borrowed from others, as is the section on the relevance of Jerusalem in Daniel’s prayers.) Several churches in North Dakota were being served by a clever old preacher. The people were always amazed, for no ...read more

  • How To Endure The Pains Of Childbirth Series

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Oct 20, 2004
    based on 15 ratings
     | 5,441 views

    #6 in Romans 8 - What a Way to Live! series. This deals with suffering, and how to let it do its work in us until God brings us to glory.

    Romans 8:18-25 – How to Endure the Pains of Childbirth (I would like to credit The Ultimate Blessing, written by Jo Anne Lyon, a Wesleyan pastor and married to one as well, founder of World Hope International, for a lot of the thought processes. As well, Eugene Peterson’s The Message for this ...read more

  • Do You Need Help Praying? Series

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Oct 25, 2004
    based on 19 ratings
     | 3,467 views

    #7 in Romans 8 - What a Way to Live! series. This is about prayer, how it is a challenge but it’s worthwhile too. And the Spirit helps us to do it. Lots of good illustrations from other sources.

    Romans 8:26-27 – Do You Need Help Praying? An unknown Confederate soldier wrote these words: I asked God for strength that I might achieve. I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked God for health that I might do greater things. I was given infirmity that I might do better ...read more

  • Polluted Streams Still Turn Turbines Series

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Nov 3, 2004
    based on 9 ratings
     | 3,156 views

    #8 in Romans 8 - What a Way to Live! series. God works all things together for good for Christians. Useful opening illustration. Also describes this truth in Jesus’ death too.

    Romans 8:28-30 – Polluted Streams Still Turn Turbines Read passage. Once there was a river. It was a wide river with many docks and wharves along its shores. It provided income for many with its sport fishing and recreational opportunities. It provided leisure for many with its beautiful ...read more

  • The Giving Of Thanks In The Times Of Trials

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Oct 14, 2003
    based on 31 ratings
     | 12,596 views

    We are told to give thanks IN everything, and give thanks FOR everything? Is this logical? Is this possible?

    1 Thessalonians 5:18; Ephesians 5:20 – The Giving of Thanks in the Times of Trials This is a list of things housewives are most thankful for: *For automatic dishwashers because they make it possible for us to get out of the kitchen before the family comes back in for their after-dinner ...read more

  • A Slowly-Moving Ship

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Oct 21, 2003
    based on 37 ratings
     | 3,790 views

    A sermon for my friend’s induction service, it uses a long analogy of a rescue ship with food and medicine, unwilling to share with others.

    Ephesians 4:1-16 – A Slowly-Moving Ship A ship rocked slowly upon the greasy seas. Its sails were tattered, its masts spliced, and its hull leaky with worm-eaten planks, but it still stayed afloat. It had been sailing for many years – for generations, actually. Many years ago it had been loaded ...read more

  • I Am A C?

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Oct 29, 2003
    based on 21 ratings
     | 3,788 views

    If being a Christian is about BEING CHANGED and BEARING CHALLENGES, how well do we line up?

    Acts 11:19-26; 1 Peter 4:12-16 – I Am a C? There were two evil brothers. They were rich and used their money to keep their ways from the public eye. They even attended the same church and looked to be perfect Christians. Then, their pastor retired and a new one was hired. Not only could he see ...read more

  • Receiving Mercy For Making Messes

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Nov 2, 2003
    based on 77 ratings
     | 18,833 views

    God’s justice brings punishment, but God’s mercy brings forgiveness, to the point of repaying our sins for blessings. What a God!

    Joel 2:18-27 – Receiving Mercy for Making Messes Once there was a pastor who was such a golf addict that one Sunday he called in sick and went golfing instead. Two angels were above him on the golf course, discussing the situation. One angel said, “You just wait. I’m gonna punish him good for ...read more

  • Getting Crowned

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Nov 10, 2003
    based on 44 ratings
     | 19,323 views

    This speaks of getting rewarded in heaven with crowns, doing things in life that matter in the next one, and why we would lay them down at His feet.

    Revelation 4:1-11 – Getting Crowned A man died and went to heaven. He was met at the Pearly Gates by St.Peter who led him down the golden streets. They passed mansion after beautiful mansion until they came to the end of the street where they stopped in front of a shack. The man asked St. Peter ...read more

  • The Day Of The Lord

    Contributed by Steven Cook on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 54 ratings
     | 5,471 views

    I. Introduction A.

    I. Introduction A. Read 1 Thess. 5:1-11 B. Paul had just unfolded the truth of the Rapture - "A time when the Lord rises from His seat beside His Father’s Throne; Descends in the air; and shouts, ‘Come Up Hither,’ and all of Christians rise to meet in the air to be with the Lord forever to be ...read more

  • Enoch Walked With God: And He Was Not….

    Contributed by Steven Cook on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 203 ratings
     | 43,593 views

    I. Introduction A.

    I. Introduction A. What an "Epitaph for a man to put on his tombstone!" B. The greatest testimony that could be placed on a man’s tombstone was that which is recorded in the Word of God concerning the man Enoch - "but he never used it!" C. Enoch was the son of Jared and the father of ...read more

  • Choices We Must Make

    Contributed by Steven Cook on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 284 ratings
     | 24,101 views

    I. Introduction A.

    I. Introduction A. Read Rom. 6:6-14 B. "Are YOU an Instrument or an Ornament?" C. Every day we must make choices; Choices that effect us and others in our lives. D. God has made us "Free Moral Agents" in that He allows us the freedom to Choose. E. With the Freedom of Choice also comes ...read more

  • Wisdom From An Ant

    Contributed by Steven Cook on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 239 ratings
     | 29,676 views

    I. Introduction "Advice" - Famous man once said, "Old people love to give good advice because it saves them the trouble of being a good example.

    I. Introduction "Advice" - Famous man once said, "Old people love to give good advice because it saves them the trouble of being a good example. "Only 10 minutes to speak" - French surgeon was once quoted as having said, "If I was given only 10 minutes in which to complete an operation, I’d first ...read more