By Pastor Glenn Pease A young boy, who had reached the age where having a watch made life worth living, was bugging his parents to get him one. He was told he would have to wait until he was older. But he continued to beg for one until his whole family was sick of it. His father finally laid down the…

By Pastor Glenn Pease One of the things that made Lincoln so great was his marvelous self-control. The nation was coming apart at the seams with a civil war that had everybody's emotions operating at extremes. To add to the tension, some army contractors were ripping off the government. This made Lincoln…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Show me the man who has never looked at a woman with lust, and I'll show you a man with a white cane who was blind from birth. None but a blind man could get through life and not be captivated by God's crowning work of creation-woman. Anyone with an ounce of artistic appreciation…

We dan trust in God knowing He is in complete control at all times, knowing His timing is always perfect.

!God is in Control !!Sermon Outline by Pastor Paddick Van Zyl !Intro: What is ‘being in control’ like? What is ‘being out of control’ like? Having control over something or in a situation means that we can manipulate the situation and steer it as we wish. Having no control means that we are not in a…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Near the end of the last century a group of minors in a mid-Western state became angry. They expressed that anger by igniting a carload of coal and pushing it down the mine shaft. Like most who act in anger, they could not foresee the long range consequences of their action. When…

"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer." Page # "Who's In the Driver's Seat?" (Mark 8:31-38) INTRODUCTION: Joan trembled as she put on her lipstick. She never dreamed she would be caught in this predicament. Forty years old,…

How to live life in light of God’s control over all.

The gospel of grace calls us away from our desperate attempts for control to a healthy dependence on the Lord.

This story of Michael and Satan and their angels fighting isn't just some fanciful story. It is the story of the struggle for control that we all have in our lives. Ultimately all we can do in the battle between Good and Evil is to have faith -- to surrender control -- as our God will protect us as we witness to Jesus' power in our lives.

We assume at times that God needs us to accomplish His task. God does not need you. Don't think more highly of yourself thatn you should

James 4:1-17 When your back is up against the wall and you feel like you are in an impossible situation, how do you usually respond? My natural tendency is to try to get in control of the situation, using either my back or my brain. I do whatever it takes to resolve the problem and return life to normalcy…

Why bring in the character of Herod into the birth story? It seems that it is unnecessary other than the Magi going to the throne thinking the baby would be born there. The tension is set. Tension and power are two common experiences of life. The use and abuse of power is something Jesus spoke about…

Last week we began looking at a very real problem: the problem of Overload. Overload keeps us constantly on the run and robs us of the opportunity to invest ourselves in what is ultimately important and lasting. Overloaded people rush through a day and at the end of that day wonder if they have accomplished…

07/14/2009 The Miracle of Growth Knox 16 PC 483/655/626 Psalm 20 Mark 4:26-34 OOPS! When it comes to sharing the gospel, it is not our responsibility to determine in advance who will be receptive and to withhold the message seed from anybody else. Fred Craddock illustrates this with an incident he remembered…

Introduction Opening: FUNNY VIDEO “Wake up Call” = a person or thing that causes people to become fully alert to an unsatisfactory situation and to take action to remedy it So we are going to be getting some wake up calls. In the book of Ecclesiastes we get several wake up calls that alerts us to reality…

Upsetting the Equilibrium 19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent…

Jesus' opponents attempt to trap him but as Jesus escapes their trap, he also teaches us something profound about how we relate to God: We belong to God - He created us, He rescued us, bought us back from the trouble we'd gotten ourselves into. Jesus calls us to give back to God what belongs to him: everything.

Earnestness and perseverance in presenting requests to God on behalf of oneself and others; seen in persistent pleading, faithful intercession and bold appeal.

One of the things we all know from experience is you can be sailing along doing pretty well in your Christian life, then something happens, and the pagan, sin-dominated person you thought had been left behind suddenly takes over. You have probably seen it when driving. Someone honks at you, drives too…

God Is In Control

Theme: God Controls Time. Purpose: That we trust and enjoy God in the different times he gives us. Mission: To increase our Faith in seasons of Change. Gospel: The Gospel gives structure and meaning to the apparent mystery of time.

Sovereignty of God. At the tender age of six, not having long been in this country, we went down south. Dad was speaking at a Vic Hudson camp at Gunn’s Bush. After the camp, seeing we hadn’t seen much of New Zealand yet, we did a little bit of a tour around and stayed at Duntroon, right next the mighty…

God's provision; Sovereignty of God