The Perfect Father Text: Rom. 8:38-39 ILLUS. - “You,” said the doctor to his patient, “are in terrible shape, & unless something is quickly done you’re going to die. You’re under too much stress and you’re not eating right. Tell your wife that she must start cooking more nutritious meals. And to help…

I John 4:16-21 Introduction What an exciting day when a woman hears the words, “I love you, will you marry me?” Soon after that great effort is put into wedding plans and before long the big day arrives. As the bride waits in the back to walk down the aisle, she hears that the groom has not arrived yet…

Series: Renewing Our Relationship with God Sermon: Responding to God’s Love Scripture: Various Renewing our relationship with God should be first on our list of priorities for a new year. The first task in renewing our relationship is accepting that God loves us, and the prime example of His love is…

10-16-05 Dallas Baptist Church 40 Days of Purpose Week 2: Created for God’s Pleasure…first purpose: Worship Sermon Transcript Rick Warren tells of a true story that was reported by Mike Royco in the Chicago Tribune. The story goes like this: There was man whose name was Bill Mallory. Mallory traveled…

Living The Kingdom of God Lifestyle Journey From Religion to Relationship Growing as a group in the gospel of the kingdom INTRODUCTION & INDEX To Kingdom Growth Guides INTRODUCTION (#000) | Kingdom Growth Guides are for assisting individuals and small groups to move toward the kingdom lifestyle. These…

Identifying curses As stated earlier, iniquity (perversion) causes curses. Discernment and detection are the two primary ways to determine the type of curse a person may be under. Supernatural discernment through the Holy Spirit, including word of knowledge and discerning of spirits, has proven invaluable…

ABIDING IN CHRIST BIBLE TEXT: John 15:1-4 Subject: Presence Proposition: Abiding In His Presence Theme: The Savior of the world invites us into an intimate, personal, abiding relationship with Him where we will experience His wonderful love INTRODUCTION Lesson Aims: Understand Christ’s claims to deity…

Introduction: In chapters 3-5 we read of where God calls Samuel to deliver a message of judgment against Eli’s family (v.11-14). Israel engages in war with the Philistines (v.2-10), the Ark of the Covenant is captured in battle (v.11), and Hophni and Phinehas, Eli’s sons are killed (v.17). After hearing…

What Not to Love A sermon on 1 John 2:15-17 preached at Christ the King Church on 1/15/06 Prayer: Father, open our eyes to see and our hearts to sense the truth of your Word. Lord, you know that I need help to preach, and that this congregation needs help to listen. So, help us both to recognize and…

“I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.” [1] The way of salvation is taught by godly people; but the Spirit of God must make the dead individual alive in Christ. We cannot be educated into…

Introduction: *Question: What is involved in having a vital relationship with Jesus Christ?” How can we describe the union that a believer experiences between himself and Christ? We talk about knowing Christ, being in Christ, walking with Christ, and loving Him. But what does that union really involve?…

Introduction A. The Sin of Eli’s Son’s (v.12-17) 1. Their character of the sons of Eli (v.12) a) They were corrupt—Literally this means they were sons of Belial. Belial is used of Satan in (2Cor.6:15). The phrase sons of Belial refer to evil, worthless, wicked men. q Here is the problem: because they…

Time with Abba - Bible Reading Schedule Jan l Feb l Mar l Apr l May l Jun l Jul l Aug l Sep l Oct l Nov l Dec Date Psalms OT NT Proverbs 1/1 Ps 1:1-6 Gen 1:1-2:25 Matt 1:1-2:12 Prov 1:1-6 1/2 Ps 2:1-6 Gen 3:1 - 4:26 Matt 2:13-3:6 Prov 1:7-9 1/3 Ps 2:7-12 Gen 5:1 - 7:24 Matt 3:7-4:11 Prov 1:10-19 1/4…

INTRO Today we are continuing our series looking at worship through the lens of grace Everyone was made to Worship… Our website says… WORSHIP LIFE CALVARY is a community of faith, hope and love under the Lordship of Jesus Christ who desire to know God through His WORD, love God through our WORSHIP and…

Thomas S. Myers A Lifestyle That Honors God Ephesians 4:25-32 FIND NOTES ON EPH 4:17. The story is told of a little boy who went to the funeral of an atheist. There in the coffin was the man who professed not to believe in God, and, of course, God's heaven. The little boy studied the well-dressed, lifeless…

A Time to Embrace and a Time to Refrain from Embracing Professor Henry Drummond (1969) says that "the greatest thing in all the world is love," and Paul reminds us that among the gifts to man there are three of outstanding quality: faith, hope and love, "these three; but the greatest of these is love"…

Sermon: First things First; Rekindle the Flame Scripture: Revelation 2.1-7 Theme: Come back to Your first love. Introduction o 1924 World Series o Matthew 7.21-23 Matthew 7:21-23 (NIV) 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my…

Liberty University An Exegetical Paper on I John 5:13-21 A paper submitted to Dr. Percer In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the course NBST 655 Liberty Theological seminary By Christopher W. Myers Lynchburg, Virginia Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Table of Contents Outline of I John 5:13-21- 3 Introduction-…

“God’s Great Love” John 3:16-17 Introduction: God is love (1Jn. 4:8,16) · Psalm 63:3; 86:15; 100:5 · Ps.36:7; 89:1-2 · The N.T. ultimately unveils the ultimate proof of God’s love (Rom.5:8; 1Jn.4:9-10; Eph.2:4-6) 1. The fact: God so loved (v.16a) 1. Whole world (Jn.1:29; 3:16; Rom.10:12-13; 1Tim.2:4;…

What’s love got to do with it? I heard a song on the radio this past week and it got me to thinking. There are some songs that we have heard so many times over the years that we quit listening to the words, or we find that we never really paid very close attention to them in the first place. That was…

He aquí yo vengo pronto, y mi galardón conmigo, para recompensar a cada uno según sea su obra. Pero sin fe es imposible agradar a Dios; porque es necesario que el que se acerca a Dios crea que le hay, y que es galardonador de los que le buscan. Apocalipsis Creo que este versículo es clave para el tema…

2 Kings 6:15-18KJV 15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? 16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that…

The Fruit of the Spirit is Love 1 John 4: 7-21 Galatians 5: 22-23 (NRSV) The Fruit of the Spirit … the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control… Today, we are going to begin examining the different components in this listing…

Ephesians 5:1-9 Introduction I had a conversation with someone recently about what identifies a Christian. He was talking about a conversation he’d had with someone about the importance of being recognizable as a Christian, but the other person was pointing to such things as clothing and other physical…

Just this past week something caught my attention in the news. You may have seen it yourself and read about it. An act of forgiveness was seen. Can you imagine forgiving the person who killed your own brother? Well, that's exactly what happened in a Dallas courtroom this past Wednesday. Police officer…