God’s Gracious Gifts—Part 3
Sermon outline: This is an abbreviated outline with the complete sermon downloadable at the bottom of the post.
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God’s Gracious Gifts—Part 2
Sermon outline: This is an abbreviated outline with the complete sermon downloadable at the bottom of the post. Introduction: Have you ever heard the phrase, “Looks can be deceiving”? Let’s take a closer look at this marvelous gift:
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God’s Gracious Gifts—Part 1
Sermon outline: This is an abbreviated outline with the complete sermon downloadable at the bottom of the post. Toward the end of the Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey cries out, “I want to live again! I want to live again!” Immediately he’s flashed from the previous scene and finds himself standing once more on the snow-covered iron bridge where earlier he had considered suicide: the dark swirling river below.
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Use Your Words to Encourage People
Proverbs 12:25 says, “Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.” Over and over in the Bible we see examples and read exhortations about how words can be used for righteous and relevance or for ruin and rebellion. In Proverbs 12, we read about what words can be:
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4 Lessons from Mark 2
Sermon outline: This is an abbreviated outline with the complete sermon downloadable at the bottom of the post. Introduction: Do you know anybody who needs Jesus? Perhaps the question should better be phrased, “Do you know anybody who doesn’t need Jesus?” Everyone needs Jesus. But not everyone is aware of their need, or even if they are aware, is capable of getting to Him themselves.
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Pastors Should Take Point in Planting New Churches
The church at Antioch in Acts 13 sent out men who were called, qualified, and capable. They were not looking for somewhere to send someone to be “an encouragement” to them. They were not looking for a place of service elsewhere for those who could not or would not serve effectively in their own local church.
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Making Sure Your Spirit Is Right
The Jews and the Samaritans had a long history of animosity and hatred toward each other. That is why it was not a strange thing that Jesus was treated rudely and refused when He sought accommodations in Samaria.
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Being Remembered As Servants of the Lord
How will you be remembered? Perhaps that is not the correct first question—will you be remembered? I suppose each of us would like to think that our lives will have meaning and influence beyond our own days. Just what will we leave behind: money, debt, or both a physical and a spiritual inheritance?
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An Acrostic to Help Keep Your Electronic Communication Uplifting
Remember when your mother taught you to “think before you speak”? It’s good advice for when you speak electronically, too. God commands us, “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”
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Our Music Must Be Acceptable to the Lord
The Bible is the basis and foundation of everything I believe. This is why I reference so much Scripture when I write about music. There are at least 500 verses in the Bible that refer to music. The Bible instructs believers to praise God, “In psalms and hymns and spiritual songs” (Ephesians 5:19).
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