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Heavenly Father, As we gather in Your presence today, we come with hearts open to the wisdom and truth of Your Word. We stand on the verge of a new year, a canvas yet to be painted with the moments and days You have appointed for us. We acknowledge, Lord, the brevity of our lives, a truth poignantly…

What motivates people to behave the way they do? Why do we sometimes avoid evil and at other times choose it? Or from another perspective, why do we do the right thing on some occasions and fail to do it on others? People are motivated to satisfy their needs for Security Significance Fulfillment ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________…

Blowing your money This time next week, the NRL season will be about to begin, with two games coming from Las Vegas. It’s the same city in which countless people from around the world tuned in to watch the Superbowl. It’s also the city which has a reputation for the big casinos. The place where the rich,…

But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience; Jonathan Swift, a historic English/Irish poet and satirist, once announced, "Every man desires to live long, but no man desires to be old," and…

Baby Food Introducing new foods to a baby - move to the next when they’re ready. Milk to baby food to cereal to rice to... Teaching the Word of God is like that. The Corinthians were not ready for the next step. Main Points: The Corinthian believers are acting spiritually immature by dividing over certain…

When we begin to talk about the Problem of Evil, we have to put on our thinking caps. As Christians this is an issue that we will have to confront challenges to our faith, because it is a very real stumbling block for those who may have looked at Christianity and wonder what solution there is to the…

An important subject Money impacts physically, spiritually and mentally, no wonder there is much in the bible about it. (Insert money key words PowerPoint slide here) Look at those words, would you think they accurately speak about money and what we think or may do with it? Bible speaks a great deal…

We’ve been working our way through the book of Ecclesiastes, a book of 12 short chapters that sits in the midst of the books of wisdom within our Bibles. Ecclesiastes is one of the books we don’t know specifically who wrote it. We do know the author intended to sound like Solomon to whom much of Proverbs…

Big Idea of the Message : Some believe that faith and science are contradictory to one another. The truth is, faith and science complement each other when looking through the correct filter. Application Point: We should love God with all our minds. Therefore, use our intellect to worship God. SESSION…

David as he pens the 19th Psalm he proclaims… Psalm 19:1 “ The heavens are telling of the GLORY of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. ” He again would so richly express in Psalm 63:1–2 “ O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns…

Today we will be addressing a rather difficult subject. Many modern Bible translations refer to this section of the sermon on the mount The Cure for Anxiety . That sounds lovely, doesn’t it? A cure for anxiety. Is that even possible? Anxiety is something every person struggles with in some form or another.…

"Change My Mind." Based on 1 Corinthians 2:6-16. Once we accept Jesus, we begin a lifelong journey of changing our mind to become the mind of Christ. Each day we are less us and more Him.

Nathan works for the Post Office and his job is to process mail that has been posted with incomplete or illegible addresses. One day, Nathan comes across a letter addressed in shaky handwriting to Hashem with no actual address on the envelope. So Nathan opens the envelope and reads the letter inside:…

Transitory Faith So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.…

ori•ent•ed \ˈȯr-ē-ˌen-təd\ adjective 1937: intellectually, emotionally, or functionally directed Orienteering= a cross-country race in which each participant uses a map and compass to navigate between checkpoints along an unfamiliar course A Compass... You can have a compass and still be lost… setting…

The Bread of Life (6:22–71) Are you prepared to confront the person of Jesus as the fullness of God? Jesus has confessed in dramatic fashion His true identity. Jesus will now challenge His interested followers to see if they are willing to accept Him as He truly is. 1. The Crowd Pursues Jesus (vs. 22–24).…

19 but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. Thesis/Central Idea: The cares of this world are the pursuit of possessions and wealth, and a preoccupation with material things is futile and dissatisfying.…

Secular - One afternoon, a wealthy lawyer was riding in the back of his limousine when he saw two pathetic-looking men by the side of the road, eating grass. He ordered his driver to stop and got out to investigate. He asked the men, "Why are you eating grass?" "We don't have no money for food," the…

The message this morning has been on my heart for quite sometime. So, I have prayed a lot over it and put a lot of thought into it. Money often times seems to be an issue in the church. But, I am not sure that it should be. There are many unhealthy perspectives on giving. Those of us who have been in…

Stir-Up Repentance In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Oh, how impatient we are! We have instant rice, quick oatmeal, microwave ovens, drive-through hamburgers; computers that can perform 4,000,000,000,000 (that is, four trillion , four million million) instructions…

8 But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. 9 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.” 10 And, “You, Lord, laid the…

The Experiment (Part 1) 1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel: 2 For learning wisdom and discipline; for understanding insightful sayings; 3 for receiving prudent instruction in righteousness, justice, and integrity; 4 for teaching shrewdness to the inexperienced, knowledge and discretion…