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Pride comes from Achievement Pride comes from Attention Pride comes from Affluence Pride comes from Abandonment Conclusion

When I did youth ministry, we would take kids to Chuck E Cheese. They had a game called Whack-a-mole. In WAM, moles pop up out of holes and you have to hammer them back down. But as soon as you slam one, another pops up. And on and on it goes. The thing about this game and the reason it’s just evil,…

Many of us remember a rhyme from our grade school playground: “Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me.” We all probably know that this rhyme is not entirely true. Robert Fulghum in his book, All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, turned that phrase a bit…

Introduction E.g. Chasing the jet ski Fell off jet ski & had to keep swimming after it as it ‘snaked’ its way up the river By the time I caught it I was too exhausted and annoyed to keep going so I went back For many people happiness, contentment, satisfaction in life seems like chasing the jet ski It…

Good morning, Gateway! Psalm 34:1-6 Pray Intro I remember a car ride home with my mom from church when I was about 12 and I was a real know-it-all. Our church just got a new youth pastor, and my mom was asking me about the service. “How’d it go? What’d you think of the new guy?” “He seems nice, but I…

Signs Of An Idiot Attention Getter: Why the need for Guru’s Jordan Peterson - Male Responsibility; Dave Ramsey - Financial Responsibility; The Entire self -help section. Introduce Topic: People are looking for practical answers to real questions and problems. Scripture: Background: Challenge Audience:…

Pride Identifying Pride 4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart, The lamp of the wicked, is sin. Haughty: to be high above. always looking down. Proud: broad or far reaching. Someone’s lamp was their life [their lamp will be snuffed out]. The existence of the wicked is sin. “Proud,” “Haughty,” “Scoffer,” are…

Unto thee, O Lord , do I lift up my soul. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, Let not mine enemies triumph over me. Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: Let them be ashamed which transgress without cause. Shew me thy ways, O Lord ; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach…

Years ago, I heard a story once of a journalist who went to do a story on men who served in the foreign legion. After several days of travel, the journalist arrived at their fort out in the middle of no where. Interviews were conducted for several days and it was noted that these men knew each other…

1. God’s Word Must Remain the Guiding Priority in All Things 
2. People left to Themselves Will Always Experience Chaos 
3. God Blesses those who Keep His Word

Genesis 3:14-15 Dec 17, 1927 8 year old S class submarine conducting tests off coast of MA. 2273 Any Hope Of Rescue? Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Years ago the S-4 submarine was rammed…

This Week’s Theme: Don’t Live Arrogantly before God Memory Verse: Proverbs 16:18 “18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.” This Week’s Word is Pride : It is viewed as a great evil because it involves pretending to a greatness and glory that belong rightly to God alone. Essence…

God dispersed the people for their own good, then later He united the peoples out of His mercy.

Does anyone know what this picture represents? This might be the most amazing data picture you see in a lifetime! It shows the 63,779 cross-references in the Bible. The white bars along the bottom represent each Bible chapter, Gen. 1 - Rev. 22 . The line’s color shows the reference’s distance from the…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Psalm 31 . Prayer Intro Good morning, again! August 5, 2001 was a beautiful night in Cleveland, Ohio at Jacobs Field, especially if you were a Seattle Mariners fan. The Mariners coming into the game were 80-30, they had won the first two games of the series, and seemed…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Lam 3:21-26 . God of creation. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God of the covenant. You are merciful, and gracious, slower to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and sin, but you are also…

Introduction ‘Ye Must Be Born Again’ - Salvation: ( Joh. 3:1-21 ) An Examination (Of Nicodemus) He was a Religious Leader; He Recognized Jesus’ Authority; He Reached Out to Jesus; He Needed Redemption An Education The Duality of Life; The Necessity of Spiritual Birth; The Analogy that He Gave An Explanation…

We are in the last week of our series Decisions, Decisions: Biblical Wisdom for Life’s Choices. The Bible doesn’t give us definitive answers for every decision we face in life or turn-by-turn directions for our proverbial journeys. You won’t find a verse about where to go to school, whether or not to…

In this message we examine what love truly is by looking at God's definition of it in I Cor. 13

Scripture Reading: Introduction: Appreciate the good and the bad. To appreciate the good, you must appreciate the bad. What do you think I mean by that? The more significant to bad seems, the more desirable the good will be. James wants his readers to appreciate the good and the bad of the trouble they’re…

Introduction We have a drain in our house that gets plugged up really easily. Eventually it gets to the point that in order to prevent the sink from filling up with water, you have to turn the faucet on lower and lower, until finally it is barely at a trickle. There is, however, a way to deal with this…

Introduction Expositional Observations Teaching tailored to the crowd that followed Jesus and to His Disciples v.1 Jesus provides instruction vv. 2-3 Jesus issues rebuke vv. 4-7 Jesus erects guard rails vv. 8-10 Preaching Points Appreciate Oxymoronic Descriptions v.11 It is in this verse that we gain…

What do you believe about God? What God do you serve?

Last Spring, we studied through the Sermon on the Mount. One of the great themes of Matthew is the coming kingdom. The Book of Revelation speaks of the time when that new kingdom is fully realized. I shared with our Elders a week ago an observation that I gleaned about songs describing Heaven. Historically…

Intro The NFL scouting combine is the league's biggest event in terms of gathering draft prospects in one spot for one even, consistent evaluation. Most players, especially the top prospects, get a thorough look during the long weekend in Indianapolis -- but not all of them. Every year, there was players…