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Title: Empowered Services Theme: Preparing for Life Changing Worship Services “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.” (Hebrews 11:6) Christ Seeking Not Crowd Pleasing It is imperative…

The Family That Prays The family is being tested as never before. But God is saying to us that this is an open book test. An open book test is when the answers are given to you in the book but you must search for them. My brothers and sisters God is always willing to help man on his journey of life.…

Get the Facts Straight When you get the “facts” of your faith straightened out then your situations will straighten out. Faith must be founded upon facts. And these facts of your faith then becomes the foundation upon which everything stands. So if my facts are off then everything else will be off. “I…

The Results of Sin Genesis 3:7-15 By Orpheus J. Heyward The Text of Emphasis 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. Up until this point we have studied sin in its origin, in which we discovered that it…

The Gift of Love (and why Christians imitate it) PGBC-12/16/07 Bill Glick Recently, I interviewed three people involved in ministries to the poor. “Project H.O.P.E. is an interdenominational Christian service organization dedicated to meeting the immediate physical needs of impoverished people, while…

FINISH WHAT YOU START INTRODUCTION A. Illust. of finishing all your porrage. B. One of the things we admire in Wayne Gretzky, is his staying power (Illust. of Stephen Woodward). C. That is what we as Christians need -- staying power to finish the course just as we have begun it. D. Joshua and Caleb offer…

#19 Sermon on the Mount 11/18/90 Text: Matt. 7:13-14 E.B.C. CHOICES, CHOICES, CHOICES! INTRODUCTION A. One of our most pleasant pastimes, as North Americans, is to make choices. We love to go to the ice cream shop and choose between 39 different flavors of ice cream. Our entire retail industry is based…

#3 Christmas Series 12/08/91 E.B.C. WHY I LIKE CHRISTMAS INTRODUCTION A) If one were to take a random survey about people's feel-ings regarding Christmas the results would vary from extreme-ly positive to extremely negative. B) The reasons people would give for holding the views they do would likely…

HOW BIG IS YOUR GOD? INTRODUCTION A. As the body counts continue to mount after last Sunday’s Tsunami in Asia…as our federal government considers re-defining marriage…as we continue to hear of daily bloodshed in Iraq…as we hear about high-ranking UN officials charged with the responsibility of bringing…

#1 Christmas Series 12/01/91 Text: 1 Timothy 1:15 E.B.C. WHY CHRIST BOTHERED INTRODUCTION (A) One of the most basic errors we as human beings make is to assume that everyone thinks just like we do. If we are generous people, we assume that everyone else must be gener-ous too. If we are self-centered…

#17 Sermon on the Mount 10/21/90 Text: Matt. 5:43-48 E.B.C. LOVING THE UNLOVELY INTRODUCTION A. With all the turmoil which has been created by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait the war propaganda machine of both sides have been heating up. The basic tenant of any war propaganda is "Thou shallt hate thine enemy."…

#16 Sermon on the Mount 10/14/90 Text: Matt. 5:38-41 E.B.C. HAVING YOUR RIGHTS READ IN GOD'S KINGDOM A. The battle cry of the 80's and these early 90's must be "give us our rights" - Human rights, civil rights, women's rights, children's rights, animal rights, property rights, worker's rights, prisoner's…

# 13 Sermon on the Mount 9/9/90 Text: Matt. 5:21-26 E.B.C. ANGER; THE SPIRIT OF MURDER INTRODUCTION A. People often have great difficulty telling the difference between what is in fact the case and what they would like to be the case. Ie. The gang of teenagers who murdered a pedestrian, stabbing him…

#18 Sermon on the Mount 10/28/90 Text: Matt. 6:25-34 E.B.C. "DON'T WORRY - BE HAPPY" INTRODUCTION A. Someone has called anxiety "fear in search of a cause." I think this person is right. People today are swamped with worry and anxiety. We worry about anything and almost everything. Example: When I have…

# 15 Sermon on the Mount 9/23/90 Text: Matt. 5:33-37 E.B.C. TRUTHFULLY SPEAKING INTRODUCTION A. In one of the more strategic battles of the First World War Great Britian's fate hung in the balance. Everyone fearfully awaited word of the outcome. Late that night the signalled message was seen flashing…

#3 Christmas Series 12/15/91 E.B.C. AWAITING THE MESSIAH INTRODUCTION A. I don't know about you, but at our house the sense of anticipation regarding Christmas Eve is mounting by the minute. Everyone is busy buying presents, wrapping presents, thinking about what might be in the presents marked for them.…

#20 Sermon on the Mount 11/25/90 Text: Matt. 7:21-23 E.B.C. A PERSONAL GUIDE TO CHRISTIAN FALSE SECURITY INTRODUCTION A. Now, just as the twentieth century is drawing to a close, I have finally entered the twentieth century myself. Yes, I have purchased a personal computer. But having done so, despite…

Way To Go EX: College—trying to start a Christian group, but told no in May Committed it to prayer—September—start a group! Sometimes when we go through the Christian life we encounter despair and frustration. That is OK! Especially when we are trying to spread the Gospel and disciple others and we meet…

Grief: What Do I Do With It? Grief is a very powerful emotion that God gave us. But What Do I Do With It? My recollections of grief: watching Grandma Beatty grieve, funeral for little boy, friend whose husband died & person told her God had someone else, attending funeral of young person who took own…

“THANK GOD FOR THE CHURCH” (Philippians 1:1-11) A. The Relevance of the Sermon I heard about a little boy who had a jigsaw puzzle that on one side had a map of the world and on the other side had a picture of a man. His mother asked him to try and work it and before long the little fellow had put the…

Shadow Use the very familiar Psalm 23 in comparison with the birth of Jesus Christ. We all go through times that are difficult. Times when we wonder if anyone understands our pain or heartache. It’s those times when God wants so badly for us to depend more on Him. Key is the relationship. No relationship,…

Day & Duties We all need reminders to Don’t Give Up ! It comes as a part of trying to live a life for God in the midst of a world that doesn’t try to live for God. We have seen in Paul’s letter to the church in Thessalonica that God sets apart the believers to be different for His purposes, so we need…

Shepherd EX: Thru the years-families tend to celebrate the holidays in basically the same ways—for generations Do something a little less traditional this Christmas with the Sunday’s leading to Christmas Day! Use the very familiar Psalm 23 in comparison with the birth of Jesus Christ. Psalm 23 -Psalm…

Our Intent Our Intent How can you measure someone’s intent? It is a difficult thing, yet we all consider ourselves to be experts. We can take small amounts of information about someone’s behavior that we have never even met and become experts at why they did what they did when they did it. We can measure…

Live It EX: Learning to memorize Scripture in college—tough to do and recall, but the abundant peace that comes from knowing His Word is worth it. Most of us have moments in life when we wonder or even struggle with what benefit is it for me to live my life the way God wants. If I could do my own thing,…