Children’s
Day (Click
on Name to Review) |
What
Every Child Deserves |
Every
child deserves the right kind of inner-braces, the right kind of
parental example, and the right kind of memories.
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The
Bigness of Being Little |
It
is one of the primary articles in the Constitution of Heaven that
"grown-ups" never enter there. We must learn to be pliable and humble,
simple and trusting, as a little child.
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Health,
Happiness and a Hive of B's |
In
the eyes of Jesus a little child ranks above every other person
on earth. "Except you become like a little child," he said, "you
shall not enter into the Kingdom of heaven."
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Christmas
(Click on Name to Review) |
A
Baby Makes a Difference |
A
German lullaby and a baby's laughter generate hope in the bombed
out ruins of Berlin and remind us of the true source of Christmas
hope and cheer.
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Stars,
Straw and an Angel's Song |
Follow
the star and rejoice in the baby's splendor. Finger the straw and
be grateful for His simplicity. But don't forget the Angel's song.
It is best part of Christmas.
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A
Layette for the Baby King |
Gold,
frankincense and myrrh. The selection of these three gifts was not
an accident. Hidden within them is the real meaning of Christmas.
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The
Blight Before Christmas |
"Office
Yule Parties Are Here To Stay. More Shindigs Than Ever Are Planned,
Survey Shows." A headline in a Chicago newspaper addresses a major
problem facing America. |
Cataracts
On Christmas |
Are
you dreading Christmas? Perhaps you've developed Cataracts On Christmas
and have become blind to the true meaning of what's really going on.
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They
Saw Stars
|
God
gave us Christmas so we can get our bearings once again. So we can
check our course by the sight of that one, great star which leads
to Him. |
Keeping
Christmas |
God gave us Christmas in December so we would know Christmas is not
a season, but a spirit. |
The
Very First Christmas Service |
Climb
aboard the magic carpet of imagination and journey back across the
centuries to share in the first Christmas service ever held. |
What
Made The Wisemen Wise |
The
story of the wise men has been told for twenty one centuries, and
yet each hearer finds in it something new. |
Hot
Dogs, Toothpicks and a Baby's Smile |
A
teaching about the real source of true Christmas joy. |
God's
Gift On Man's Tree |
There
is simply no meaning to Christmas apart from the fact that the babe
of Bethlehem and the Christ of Calvary are one. |
I'm Dreaming of a Right Christmas |
I'm
Dreaming of a Christmas that doesn't get lost in "tinsel, bell and
holly wreath," and produces what God intended Christmas to produce:
"Peace on earth, good will toward men." |
Communion
(Click on Name to Review) |
This
Amazing Fellowship - Part 1 |
The "Called Out" ones form an Amazing Fellowship which conquers
the differences which divide us.
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This
Amazing Fellowship - Part 2 |
When
people are stripped of everything society says makes for happiness
they develop a true sense of values. |
This
Amazing Fellowship - Part 3 |
The
Church enables us to conquer the distances that would divide us. |
A
Look in the Cup - Part 1 |
A
fresh understanding of the meaning of communion, and the deep demands
the sacrifice of Christ imposed upon us. |
A
Look in the Cup - Part 2 |
There
are several experiences in the life of our Lord we should remember
when we meet around the table. |
A
Look in the Cup - Part 3 |
Our
growing understanding of the structure of things sheds new light on
Christ's promise to be with His disciples...and us...always!. |
I
Am The Bread Of Life |
The
significance for us in Jesus' claim to be "The bread of life," it
is that our true hunger is a spiritual one. A hunger only Christ can
satisfy. |
Skyscrapers,
Bridges and the Hill of Calvary |
The
building of a bridge to Glory was not an easy thing. It cost the life
of the only good man who ever lived, and is an undertaking into which
we must put our lives, too.. |
Christ's
Greatest Miracle |
Jesus
performed many miracles, but none compared with the miracle it took
to save us. |
Happy
Birthday to Us |
Pentecost ranks with Easter and Christmas as the third great festival
of the Christian year, and marks the birthday of the Christian Church. |
Cataracts
on Christmas |
Are
you dreading Christmas? Perhaps you've developed Cataracts On Christmas.
Like the disciples, you've become blind to the true meaning of what's
really going on |
What
Does it Mean to be Born Again - Part 1 |
What
does it mean to be born again? How does it happen? What are the outward
evidences of this inward experience? How can we and others know we
have, indeed, been born again? |
What
Does it Mean to be Born Again - Part 2 |
An
experience with Christ is a crisis which begins a process. His purpose
is not merely to make nice people, but new people |
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The Challenge Of The Chalice |
Communion
results in repentance, quickens love, fosters holiness, and best of
all, brings God near, or to put it more accurately, lets us know he
was never away in the first place. |
Easter
(Click on Name to Review) |
Come
See - Go Tell |
Come
see the empty cross. Come see the empty tomb. Go tell the world that
because of the resurrection life has meaning. |
What
Makes Good Friday Good? |
Why
do people who are devoted to Jesus Christ celebrate the anniversary
of His execution with a sense of solemn gladness? The answer is mind-blowing!. |
What
Makes Good Friday Good |
Why
do people who are devoted to Jesus Christ celebrate the anniversary
of His execution with a sense of solemn gladness? The answer is mind-blowing!. |
Prelude
to Victory |
No
matter how hard we try to camouflage Calvary with Easter lilies and
the like, the cross still stands making its necessary and unrelenting
demand. We must face our cross, too |
Have
You Been Fitted for Easter |
During
the holocaust of the last Great War, a young pilot was ordered to
leave with his squadron on a very dangerous mission. Before climbing
into the cockpit of his plane, he called to the chaplain standing
nearby... |
The
Wrong Side Of Easter |
One
word sums up the meaning of Christianity: Easter! The resurrection
is too good not to be true. |
Christ And The Fourth Horseman |
Death
has always been the epitome of evil in the world, but in one magnificent
moment unequaled in all of human history, death, the last and worst
of foes, was defeated. |
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The Day I Die |
It
may seem strange to begin an Easter message on a note of death, but
the joy of Easter can never be fully understood until we face up to
be fact that we were born to die. |
Father's
Day(Click on Name to Review) |
God
Save the King |
Studdard
Kennedy, the famed British preacher, penned the lines which provide
the seed thought for this teaching. |
What
Every Child Deserves |
We
say, ABoys will be boys. It is equally true that, ABoys will be men!
And the probability is they will be the kind of a men their fathers
have been. |
Layman’s
Sunday (Click
on Name to Review) |
Making
a Living or Making a Life |
If
one word describes the attitude of mind for millions of laymen across
America it is the word "frustration". |
The
Prayer Life of A Laymen |
Prayer
is by all odds the most misunderstood, misused, and misinterpreted
force in the world. |
Mother's
Day(Click on Name to Review) |
A
House is Not a Home |
Now
abideth faith, hope and love. These three. With them you can not fail
to make a model home. Without them, it will not be a home at all.
Iit is just a house with people living in it. |
From
Frustration to Fruition |
Certain
hard-core needs are common to all people. Psychologists call them
the three A's: affection, approval, and acceptance. Mothers need these,
too. |
From
Bride's Bouquet To Grand Baby's Bottle |
An
all-time favorite, this message honors the Seven Stages of Motherhood
with humor, poetry and music.. |
New
Year's (Click on Name to Review) |
In
the Beginning God |
When
faith in God ceases to be a phase and becomes a fact, we can face
the future knowing there is a Source to which we can turn with confidence. |
Let's
Live It Now |
It
isn't fair to God, your family, the world, the church, or yourself
to keep your faith so personal, those about you wonder if you have
one! |
St.
Nick, Sputnick and Old Nick |
The
story of the wise men ends with eloquent simplicity. After they had
found and worshiped Jesus, Athey departed to their own country another
way." |
Something To Live For |
Many
suffer from what Carl Jung called Athe senselessness and purposelessness
of their lives.@ What=s the answer? Begin living with eternities values
in view. |
A
Great Time To Be Alive |
We
must not allow disturbing headlines, complex problems and jangling
irritations obscure the fact that we are living in the most exciting
period in human history. |
Patriotic
(Click on Name to Review) |
LEST
WE FORGET |
The story of King David's
war with the Ammonites is the basis for a teaching on healthy patriotism. |
Pentecost
(Click
on Name to Review) |
The
Holy Spirit and You |
There's
a good deal to be said for the suggestion that every 2 or 3 years
all those who claim to be Christian should forget what they "know"
about the Holy Spirit and look at Him again as if for the first time.
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Ode
to the Unknown God |
The
heart of Christianity is rooted in three great events. Christmas,
Easter and Pentecost. Each of these events was marked by a gift. A
wonderfully lavish, amazingly gracious gift from God to the children
of God... |
Happy
Birthday to Us |
Our
years' preaching schedule is about half done. Thus far, we've had
series of sermons focusing on Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Easter,
and now Pentecost or Whitsuntide... |
Big
Oaks and Little Acorns |
As
little as ten years ago, the Foreign Secretary of the Dominion of
Damnation was predicting the imminent demise of the Christian church... |
Stewardship
(Click on Name to Review) |
God's
I Dare You |
People
ask, Ahow much do you give? God asks, Ahow much do you keep? How we
spend our money reveals the kind of person we are and will become. |
Wrap
Your Gift in a Smile |
When
I was a boy, APut your money where your mouth is" was a challenge
to prove the sincerity of your words, by backing them up with your
pocket book." |
The
Second Most Satisfying Experience of Your Life |
God
has established four standards to govern us in our giving. A definite
proportion. A definite person. A definite place. A definite purpose. |
The
King Was in the Counting House |
The
big question for each of us is, What things really count in the long
run? For Christians that means the really long run: eternity! |
God
And Company - Builders |
If
we are going to have a better world, we must build it. But we cannot
give to others what we do not have our self.. |
Lady
Are You Rich |
We've
become so satiated with the fulfillment of most of our wants, we've
grown blase about the fact that all of our needs have been supplied. |
The
Secret Everybody Knows |
Each
of us has the power to choose what we will do with the stuff of life.
The wise ones among us are those that heed the words of Jesus and
Alay up treasures in heaven. |
What
Christ Doesn't Want |
Jesus
never hesitated to speak frankly about God's prior claim on money,
but when it comes to the matter of giving it is important that we
know .What Christ does not want. |
What
Did God Really Say? |
The
New Testament clearly teaches tithing is the first step a growing
Christian takes as he or she moves forward into genuine spiritual
maturity. |
You Can Take it with You |
Material
possessions can do things for us. They can also do great things to
us. Much depends upon whether or not we are wise enough to Alay up
treasures in Heaven. |
Summertime
(Click on Name to Review) |
Diehards
Who Did Not Die |
A
diehard is one who will not compromise the principles in which he
or she believes, but will stand firm for them until the end. |
How
To Worry And Like It - Part 1 (Skeletons 1) |
Worry
can be a positive force for good, if we learn to worry about the right
things in the right way. |
How
To Worry And Like It - Part 1 (Skeletons 2) |
This
would be a hellish world if there were no problems to be solved, no
mountains to be climbed, no horizons to be broadened. Stop worrying
needlessly and start living |
The
Fine Art Of Being Critical (Skeletons 3) |
We
may be right of our criticism of other people=s weaknesses, but we
are not commanded to be right. We are commanded to love! |
Fear
- A Beast Or A Boost (Skeletons 4) |
We
can never rightly understand fear unless we see both faces of it.
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The
Christian Use Of Gossip (Skeletons 5 |
Our
heart is like a fountain, and our words are its flow. From a corrupt
heart can come incalculable evil. From a pure heart can flow untold
good. |
Some
Negative Thinking, Too, Please (Skeletons 6) |
Do
not despise your capacity to doubt. It puts you in company with the
saints. As someone has said, AOne who has never doubted has only half
believed!@ |
The
Ego And I (Skeletons 7) |
Each
of us is a dualism composed of the AEgo@ and the AI.@ The person we
seem to be, and the person we really are. This frightening dualism
is the source of so much of our anxiety. |
Reversing
Life’s Reverses (Skeletons 8) |
There
is an answer to discouragement. Human words often have a hollow ring,
but the word of God rings true. Jesus had something to say about tough
times. |
God's
Cure for Loneliness |
All
of us feel like castaways from time to time. David, who wrote many
of the Psalms, knew about loneliness and has three things to say which
can help when we confront it |
Thanksgiving
(Click on Name to Review) |
Let's
Put Thanks in Thanksgiving |
Without
knowing it we have adopted generally accepted ideas which make Thanksgiving
difficult, if not impossible. |
The
Second Most Satisfying Experience of Your Life |
God
has established four standards to govern us in our giving. A definite
proportion. A definite person. A definite place. A definite purpose. |
When
Thanksgiving is Not Enough |
There's
a difference between adoration and thanksgiving. Through praise new
spiritual tissue is formed |
Corn
Kernels, Drumsticks and God's Kindness |
Would
we have something left for which to be thankful if, like our Pilgrim
Fathers on their third Thanksgiving day, we sat down to a meal consisting
of five lonely kernels of corn? |
A
Worthy Thanksgiving |
Here
was a man who would have nothing to do with a faith that made no demands
on him, who refused to make an offering to the Lord which cost him
nothing. |
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