(1 Sam. 22:1-21;Chron. 11:1-25;) Bethany Bible Chapel – Nov. 18, 2007 Introduction Considering a Series on “Commitment” – Here the rewards of Commitment Here along with 2 Sam 23 is the list of David and His mighty men It details the great deeds performed by these mighty men – who went from the ragtag…

TEXT: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 TOPIC: A Life that Pleases God Pastor Bobby Earls, First Baptist Church, Center Point, Alabama Sunday Morning, October 30, 2005 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8, NKJV 1/Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received…

FINISHING WELL According to Professor Howard Hendricks of Dallas Theological Seminary, there are 100 or so leaders in the Bible, two-thirds of whom did not finish well. —Go the Distance p. 4 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson When King David fell, he brought shame to his entire house and his kingdom. His…

STEWARDSHIP After terrorists attacked America on September 11, 2001, people opened up their hearts and their pocketbooks to give to those directly affected by the tragedy. The American Red Cross received $547 million dollars for the cause, but until there was a public uproar, the Red Cross was not planning…

What does it mean to fully commit to Go

Introduction Christians sometimes rule out certain matters as too big or too small for God. The evil and suffering of the world - including issues such as the inevitability of death, the terror of human existence, and the penalty for sin ( ) - might seem so big that some may not believe that God can…

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received…

By Pastor Glenn Pease For some unknown reason a sculptor hacked an 18 foot high piece of marble into an awkward shape, and then left it unfinished to lay in a Cathedral courtyard in Florence, Italy. For about a hundred years it laid there until Sept. of 1501. The damaged block had been offered to other…

The call of God and service

Know Jesus! Philippians 3:7-14 Sermon by Rick Crandall Grayson Baptist Church - Sept. 16, 2012 *One of God’s greatest goals for our lives is to know Him. -The greatest believers in history are those who had great passion to know God. *In Exodus 33:18 Moses pleaded with the Lord, “Please, show me Your…

Five lessons in this Scripture: 1. The courage (vs. 25-32). 2. The conflict (vs. 26-28; 33). 3. The compromise (vs. 34-40). 4. The comfort (vs. 40-41). 5. The commitment (vs. 42).

“Communion, Covenant, and Commitment” Mark 14.22-31 What does your life reflect that you are committed to? Some indicators might be your Outlook Calendar or your financial statements. It has been said that we are a generation that does not understand “commitment.” However, I heard someone else suggest…

Series that will take us to Easter Sunday. FRAN - people will come to church on Easter more than any other time. A lot of people have ideas about Jesus but they are not based on the Bible. They are based on tradition, culture, Christmas stories… movies. 1 Y ou’ll remember, friends, that when I first…

By Pastor Glenn Pease One of the most famous speeches Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ever gave was his "I have a dream" speech. It was a dream about a future America where prejudice was eliminated, and there was peace and unity among all races. This dream could only become a reality if men learned to use…

Genesis 26:17-25 Redigging Our Fathers’ Wells Isaac departed from there and encamped in the valley of Gerar and settled there. And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the…

After at least six thousand years of human history, one would think that the world would get tired of bothering Christians. Who knows how many world leaders have tried to trample the faith into the dust only to suffer God’s righteous judgment themselves? Satan assumes that, since he got his foot in the…

Faithfulness. We want to take you on a spiritual journey and hopefully by the end of the year you will be able to look back and say look what the Lord has done.... We are spirit beings that have a body. Aim at heaven and you get heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. This…

Intro – How do you measure greatness? By someone’s position? Celebrity status? The size of their bank account? It often comes down to size, doesn’t it? Pastors are not immune. One pastor went to a conference with an elder. Asked the size of his church, he said, “Between 8 and 900.” The elder pulled him…

True and Proper Worship 1. The mission is a statement of what the church is supposed to be doing, while the vision is a snapshot or picture of it. 2. The mission is used for planning where the church is going; the vision is used for communicating where the church is going. 3. A mission statement must…

A Christian Research Group in a nationwide survey conducted in the first quarter of 2001 asked this question: “Please describe your goals in life.” The survey found that almost 9 out of 10 adults classified themselves as a “Christian,” by the following definition, “I am personally committed to Jesus…

ME: Superficial conversations - How are you? Fine! Good . Okay. I try to answer honestly. But sometimes it feels easier to tell a simple lie. There are some moments, some days, some seasons where when someone asks me how I’m doing I should say, I’m Not okay. I may look fine, talk/act normal. But if I’m…