Workers Needed: Sign Up Now
Help wanted ads are always in the paper. They begin with a description of the job, summarize what the boss is looking for in an employee, give an overview of the work, and call the person to action. Jesus in a similar manner is describes the situation, gives a solution to the problem, and calls…
Reality Check: Jesus Loves Me, This I Know
The message of the gospel is simple: God so loved the world that He gave his only Son. The emphasis is His love. 1 John 3:11–24, For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 we should not be like Cain, who was of the…
Reality Check: Standard-Lies Testing
Any test in which the same test is given in the same manner to all test takers is a standardized test. The opposite of a standardized test is a non-standardized test. Non-standardized testing gives different tests to different test takers, or gives the same test under significantly different conditions. For example, one group is permitted…
Reality Check: You Can’t Show What You Don’t Know
Rig, our 5 year old son, loves to play with his super hero action figures. He lines them up all the good guys, and the bad guys. He props up his bat cave in one corner, and the batmobile in the other. Dinosaurs perch from the bed overlooking the floor, while stuffed animals take their…
Reality Check: How to Abide And Conquer Fear
The text we will study this morning was the favorite text of one of my spiritual heroes William Tyndale, the first man to translate the New Testament into english from the Greek. At the age of 30, Tyndale was the private tutor of a six-year-old named Harry Walsh, son of a Knight of Gloucestershire, in…
Reality Check: The One Prayer That God Doesn’t Answer
As we conclude our series on 1 John, we examine 1 John 5:16–21. One thing you can “be sure of is that your sins will find you out.” you can hide sin for a season, but it will always find you. It reminds me of the young couple about to get married. The young man…
Reverse Engineering Evangelism
When a young William Carey, the acknowledged founder of the modern missionary movement, first applied to his church board to be sent to india, he received a classic reply. “young man,” said one of the older church leaders, “when God chooses to save the heathen of india, he will do so without your help.” Fortunately,…
Who Will You Follow: The Crowd or Christ?
Life is filled with important questions: who should I marry? Where should I live? What job should I take? Which model iPhone should I purchase? What make of car should I buy? Where should we attend church? Etc. Today you will learn what the most important and inescapable question that every human being on the…
How to Lose Friends and Irritate People
In a pre-election newspaper column, a man posed the question, “what do you do when the candidate you support takes a position you don’t like, or when the candidate you oppose takes a stand that you admire?” You would normally switch sides of allegiance. Jesus gets down to business as he thins the crowd of…
The Morning That Stopped The Mourning
The morning of the third day after the death of Jesus didn’t begin as the disciples expected. Mary Magdalene, after visiting the tomb came running to the apostles Peter and John with the announcement that the body of Jesus had disappeared. What a shock that must have been? When an attempt was made in 1876…
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