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What is the connection between pain, freewill, and love? Did God promise us happiness or joy? Did God achieve salvation for man despite the pain or through the pain?

What is temperance? How do we let what is right in the word take control?

On King David's path to holiness, he first makes a commitment to change, to avoid sin and follow through on a plan. Outward actions are not enough. God must have control of our hearts as we desire that pure heart. Realize that life is short so we don't waste our lives on anything less than holiness. Live in redeemed time, in fellowhip, obedience and trust.

June 21, 2015 Intro – Life is very temporary. A 19th century American tourist visited Polish rabbi Hofetz Chaim. Astonished at the simple home he found – a single room filled with books, a table and bench, the tourist asked, “Rabbi, where is your furniture?” “Where is yours?” asked the rabbi. The American…

June 28, 2015 Intro – Americans are the most stressed-out people who have ever lived. We ooze anxiety! Some of us even organize anxiety. Lucy asks Charlie Brown if he’s worried about the world blowing up. Charlie responds, “It all depends – what day is today?” Lucy reports, “It’s Tuesday.” Charlie replies,…

Intro – For the past 3 weeks we’ve looked at temptation in general from the experience of Jesus in Luke 4. We found that every temptation – every one – has dual purposes. It is intended by Satan as a temptation to diminish us; it is intended by God as a test to grow us. How we react determines which…

Date: August 9, 2015 Intro – Jesus is coming again. And just as His first coming was literal and physical and personal, so will be His second coming. In this passage, even tho He has not even left yet, Jesus is already preparing His hearers and consequently us to be living expectant lives – expecting…

August 2, 2015 Intro – Several years ago the CT State Police were required to put on chains when it snowed. One trooper failed to do so and ended up in a skid that flipped the car onto its roof. A caller reported, “Well, he seems okay, but you better get someone out here quick. He’s standing on the car…

Date: July 12, 2015 Intro – Need a cure for anxiety? Maybe the Psychiatric Hotline will help. Their message goes something like this: “Welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline. If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly. If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2. If you have multiple…

June 14, 2015 Intro – Col 3:1, “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.” Jack Benny was an old comedian who represented himself as a tightwad. One famous skit had Jack accosted by an armed robber who orders, “Okay, Mister,…

Intro – To be truly saved is a costly concern. It cost God His own beloved Son. It cost the Son, Jesus, His reputation and His life. And it costs those who get saved as well. Jesus says in v. 23, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” To die to…

Intro – How do you measure greatness? By someone’s position? Celebrity status? The size of their bank account? It often comes down to size, doesn’t it? Pastors are not immune. One pastor went to a conference with an elder. Asked the size of his church, he said, “Between 8 and 900.” The elder pulled him…

Intro – Mark Twain once wrote about a swift-footed dog who had “a good opinion of himself” and thought he “knew something about speed” chasing a coyote. The coyote would let the dog get close, but never catch up. After awhile the dog notices that the coyote is actually slowing down to let him keep up.…

Intro – Mark Twain once wrote about a swift-footed dog who had “a good opinion of himself” and thought he “knew something about speed” chasing a coyote. The coyote would let the dog get close, but never catch up. After awhile the dog notices that the coyote is actually slowing down to let him keep up.…

Intro – A very rich lawyer was showing his new Lexus to his friends. As he opened the door, a truck hit it and tore it off! When a cop arrived he was screaming hysterically that his car would never be the same. The cop said, “I can’t believe how materialistic you lawyers are. You’re so focused on things…

Eternity in Our Hearts Ecclesiastes 3:11 Pastor Oesterwind “He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.” -Ecclesiastes 3:11 Introduction: Let’s suppose that you’ve been diagnosed…

SERMON TYPE: EXPOSITORY Chad Williams Box 147 Expository Preaching Title: Is Christ Your Life? Text: Colossians 3:1-4 Sub/Comp: The reality of the gospel implies obedient response to commands which render Christ as supreme in the life of the believer. Proposition: We must make Christ first place in our…

My Life With Christ In Thailand Habakkuk 1:5 (late 7th century – social injustices – handed over to Babylonians) “Look at the nations and watch — and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.” God is going something – both salvation…