2008-03-01 - Power of Gratitude - Don't waste your sin Use the past to encourage others Paul did - chief of sinners - 1 Timothy 1:15-16 Joseph did:
Rejection leads to rebellion, which in turn led to failure We must become thankful rather than resentful or hurt - give the benefit of the doubt Key to a life of acceptance is develop a deep gratitude for what God has done through our challenges
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2008-03-12 - Be Still My Soul - Time Outdoors Do you realize that nearly all of the people we read about in the Bible spent most of their time outside?
FInd park, trails, and open spaces. When is the last time you:
Psalms 19:1-4; Psalms 65:8-13 Time outside with God is just what many of us need and nothing else will suffice |
2008-03-26 - Be Still My Soul - Pointed We can not be close to God in prayer if we deal only in generalities Abraham - Genesis 18 - prayed to save the city if there were 50, 45, 40, 30, 20, even 10 righteous people Our lack of specific praying reveals a distance in our relationship with God
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2008-04-02 - Falling in Love with God - Bitterness An emotional response (along with fear) that succeed at undermining our love for God A result of an uncard-for emotional wound Matthew 18:15-17 - can resolve most issues Examples
Bitterness will actively oppose any attempt to restore our love for God Bitter or better - a channel of curses or blessings Disciples need Jesus' example to overcome the pain of the cross Jesus wants us to have his attitude toward suffering
Bible command us to get rid of all bitterness
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2008-05-31 - Purpose Driven Life - What Makes God Smile? (Part 2) Noah was an example of making God smile (continued):
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2008-06-01 - Purpose Driven Life - The Heart of Worship (Part 1) Surrender is an unpopular word, implies losing Heart of a true worshiper of God is surrender Three barriers to 100% surrender are: fear, pride, and confusion Can we trust God? Trust is essential, you can not surrender to God if you do not trust him Fear keeps us from surrendering - God is love and love us deeply and casts out all fear God is willing to have his son die for us - Romans 5:8 Admitting our limitations The oldest temptation is want to be like God - Genesis 3:5 That desire wants complete control We want to be taller, smarter, anger, stronger, more talent, more beauty, and wealthier. When faced with our limitations we react with irritation, anger, and resentment. |
2008-08-24 - 30 Days at the Cross - United Hearts Unity has an immense impact on our lives What are the obstacles to unity?
Sin is the ultimate cause of all disunity. Forgiveness is the ultimate cure. It defies our nature Who do you need to totally forgive? |
2008-09-01 - Teach Us To Pray - Hungry and Thirsty (part 2) We must Desire God Alone Many people fail to have satisfying prayer lives because they are double-minded when they pray Must do our best to rid ourselves of distractions Unless you passionately fight for time alone with God, it will not happen God Blesses the Hungry Heart When we pray righteously, it allows God to work powerfully in our lives
No hungry heart will ever be turned away |
2008-09-08 - Teach Us To Pray - Reasoning with God Reasoning with God in prayer is an expression of great faith Persistent widow reasoned with the unjust judge - Luke 18:1-8 We cannot change the eternal purposes of God but we can change his mind on how his purposes will be accomplished Abraham was a man who reasoned with God - his Son being sacrificed - Genesis 18:23-33 Moses was too - God decided to destroy the disobedient Israelites and start a new nation True humility is the key to the prayer of reason - not telling God what to do |
2008-09-13 - Teach Us To Pray - Sin and Transgression God both forbids and forgives Clearly forbids - Genesis 2:16-17 We must understand that sin hurts God deeply - Jeremiah 8:20-9:3 In his infinite wisdom, he found a way to forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness is an undeserved gift |
2008-11-25 - Raising Awesome Kids - Model of Masculinity In the image of God he created male and female - Genesis 1:27 Kids are extremely aware of the difference World is so mixed up - men want to be women; women wanting to be men Unnatural relations - Romans 1:24-27 The answer - the real thing will outshine the twisted Homosexuality is not natural No young boy was made that way by God A great relationship with a strong, affectionate father reduces to virtually zero Mama's boy or sissy:
Needs sense of approval If you are kind, strong and have a close relationship with your daughter, she will want to marry someone like you |
2008-11-26 - Raising Awesome Kids - Liberty and Justice His brothers saw that their father loves him more and hated him - Genesis 37:4 Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent - the Lord detests both - Proverbs 17:15 We fathers must see that there is respect given to all Must rule justly in any areas of dispute Playing favorites is deadly Who must be respected? Mother - besides watch the children's respect, we must watch how we communicate with our spouse Younger and weaker children - Your role as dispenser of justice starts from day one and it is one of your most vital roles |
2008-12-04 - Raising Awesome Kids - Love each one with your time Love each one We cannot play favorites with suffering the consequences It takes time - kids look at time we give them as the most direct expression of our love |
2009-04-11 - Promises of God - Satan Tries to Create Doubt Satan uses his energy and his demons to break down our trust in God: Eve in the garden - Genesis 3:1-7 Moses at the burning bush - Exodus 3:1-4:17 Tried it will Jesus in the desert - Luke 4:1-13 Do you really think his strategy with us will be any different? Satan will attempt to get us to doubt God so much that we will trust a stranger more than him Problem is not that we do not know how to trust
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2009-04-17 - Why We Need God - He is The Creator GOD IS THE CREATOR...
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2009-05-14 - No one like him - Jesus believed God was the source of scripture Jesus was quoting God through Moses Matthew 19:4-5 – Haven’t you read? (quoting Genesis 2:24) Jesus quoting Psalms Matthew 22:31-32 – Have you not read? John 10:34-36 – Law, scripture, word of God were all one in the same |
2009-10-16 - Wild at Heart - Offering our Strength (part 2) Cycle of a man is that he goes away from a woman to yet return to her after finding strength Most men want the maiden without any sort of cost to themselves Nature of pornography - Uses her to get a feeling that he a man (false) Strength then came from an outside source rather than deep within Self-center man angers the Lord - Genesis 38:7-10 What happens when we refuse to spend their strength on a women - Genesis 38:25-26 Pretty women endure abuse this abuse all the time They learn to offer their bodies but never their souls Many men marry for safety Why don’t men offer what they have to their women?
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2010-01-27 - Kingdom First - Personal Responsibility (part 1) Things have not changed much since the begging of time The woman you put here gave me some fruit - Genesis 3:12 We crave a scape goat:
Must confront the planks in our own lives Instead should admonish one another - Colossians 1:28-29 Build each other up through contructive challenges - Ephesians 4:29 |
2010-04-04 - Life to the Full - Dead or Alive? (part 4) People are searching for a cause The perfect law forbids us to act out of anger or slander
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2010-04-28 - Heart of Maturity (Motivation of Maturing) Preached by John Lusk (2005-01-30) How passionate are you about maturing?
Motivation of Maturing 1. To regain your identify Genesis 1:26-27
2. To remian in Jesus 1 John 2:3-4 - This is a expectation from God 3. To be effective and productive 2 Peter 1:4-8
4. Secure salvation 2 Peter 1:8-11 - We have been given a new start Wrong motivation - Pleasing people, selfish ambition |
2010-06-01 - Desire's Journey - Futility and Failure Men's punishment and curse hits man where it hurts most - in the field - Genesis 3:17-19 We drawn our sense of worth from work Man's deepest desire always relates to his strength Man's worst fear is not meaursing up |
2010-06-02 - Desire's Journey - Loneliness and Heartache Even received a different curse from God - Genesis 3:16 More talk amoug women revolves more about relationships than work The worst fear of a women is abandonment Some men refuse to play the man for fear of failing |
2010-06-05 - Desire's Journey - Ultimate Blow How are we to bet our arranging a good life in the face of death? Even after the fall, the wickedness of the human heart seems out of control So God set our years shorter - Genesis 6:3 Those left behind experience such pain
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2010-06-14 - I need to pray (part 1) Preached on 2002-08-25 by Vince Hawkins Ephesians 3:14-21
God overwhelms the mindGenesis 41:40 - overwhelmed Joseph with the position that was given to him 1 Kings 10:7-8 - Sheba was overwhelmed by Solomon's wealth and wisdom 1 Corinthians 2:9 - He will overwhelm you by his love Ephesians 3:20 - more than we can ask or image
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2010-06-24 - God does not change (part 2) Genesis v1:1 - Not much of the world v2:1 - What a change in a few weeks v2:20-25 - God created companionship - Adam's life changed v3:23-24 - Punished, banished, and moved out of the garden v6:11
v37:17-28
Genesis 45:4-8
God will never change |