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our culture and in our world, to think we're OK. It's easy for us to
look at the rampant sexual sin, the adultery, the moral free-fall our
culture seems to be in, the awful crimes like rape, murder,
sex-trafficking, even genocide, and think how much worse all these
sinners are than we are.
It's easy to look at the world, and note that according to some
research, there are 27 million people in the world in slavery today, a
very grievous sin to us and certainly to God and though this reality
grieves us, we think, I'd never do that.
After all, we're Christians. We're saved. We're not like that.
And in many...
cream but not having any money to do it? I can remember we would look
in every nook and cranny of the sofa to find us a coin or two. We'd
look in the closet on the floor, and we'd check every old pocketbook we
could find. We rejoiced just as much in putting together ten cents as
someone who had won the lottery. We found out there was often more left
than we had first thought.
There are going to be times in our lives when we are going to want
things, and we are going to come up short....
upsurge in the news concerning the 2012 and the prediction of the end
of the world. This week I believe that God wants me to preach about
this.
There is popular movie out right now that depicts the events of the end
of the earth with truly outstanding graphical effects. Of course they
depict it as though it is not really the end, but a series of
tremendous natural disasters that encompass all of the things that
scientists have been saying about global warming, earthquakes and other
things. In the end, man is able to save himself from annihilation and
is able to begin again to build a better world. It's man saving...
James 1:13-18
We live in a world where what is good and what is evil are determined by
what suits us. We see it all around us. Our generation does evil and we
call it good and we avoid good as if it was evil. For example it's
almost impossible to find someone who will admit that they are evil. To
us we are almost always good! And what may be evil to you may be good
for me. No wonder this world is mixed up. Come Journey with me if you
will to the book of James.
In this passage, James straightens out some faulty thinking; he outlines
the truth about good and evil. These days some people are so mixed up
that they blame God for our flaws. They say, "I have imperfections and
weaknesses and God is to blame for them. After all, He made us - and so
He must have made us the way we are, with a tendency to do wrong things.
And didn't God put us in a world filled with temptations that...
Another Chance
Isaiah 29:13-16 John 4:1-26
Have you ever been in a situation in which you really wanted something to work out but it didn't, and you felt like, if I just had another chance I know I could make this thing work right? Well sometimes, another chance is just what we need, but there are other times, when we need something more than just another chance. Sometimes we need a change.
Come journey with me as we meet Lisa. Lisa is a very attractive young lady. It appears she has just about everything going her way. What the girls wouldn't give to have her beautiful eyes, her gorgeous hair, etc. Lisa' voice seemed as though it could melt the guys heart, and if she asked them to do something, they were eager to do it. What guy wouldn't want to be with Lisa. As soon as she was old enough to get married, the proposals were streaming her way.
One day Robert descends into her life. Lisa is sure,...
I always thought the voice of God was like thunder, something grand, majestic. Sometimes He just whispers to us and if we are not paying attention, we will miss it. I can hear the voice of God through a little child who has a heavenly voice while singing, or a deaf girl who can stun an audience by playing so beautifully with her violin that makes me cry when she gets a standing ovation knowing how and what she had to go through to defeat all odds to play that violin. I can hear the voice of God talking to a friend who can make me smile and make me feel good about myself when I'm down. I can hear the echo of His voice in everything that surrounds me. He's speaking to us each day. We just have to take time to listen. Amen?