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*Present Yourself to God*
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Text: Romans 12:1-2
Date: 6~/1998.1499
Title: Just One More Consumer Commodity
I often visit newcomers in town and find them to be church shopping.
They want to know what they can get out of church.
Churches are one more consumer commodity.
Worship services are not a place for us to serve God and neighbor but a place where people expect to purchase the best: inspiring worship, good music, moving sermons, quality child care.
As if we buy God and not vice versa.
-- Arthur Boers in The Other Side (May~/June 1989).
Christianity Today, Vol.
33, no.
11.
See: Mt 13:22; Ro 12:2; 1 Co 7:31.
Date: 7~/1998.1836
Title: "Outdated" Convictions
Old movies offer some powerful lessons--lessons that our generation could easily miss.
"Prisoner of Zenda," for example, a movie released in 1937, portrays the intense and genuine love between a princess and a commoner.
He pleads for her to run away with him, but by her strength and depth of conviction, she stops him cold, replying, "It is my duty do be here with my people!"
Such a response might have been acceptable in the thirties, but in the eighties an appeal to duty or convictions would be looked upon as unusual and outdated--even by people in the church.
-- Bob Mumford, New Wine (March 1986).
Christianity Today, Vol. 30, no.
9.
See: Ps 61:8; Lk 9:23; Ro 12:2.
Topic: Sacrifices
Subtopic:
Index: 3107-3111
Date: 7~/1998.1147
Title: Sacrifice Fly -- RBI
According to Stand Firm, although Johnny Oates manages the Texas Rangers, he's no Lone Ranger--he has a wife and three kids.
He also has a mind set on reaching the World Series.
Those ambitions controlled him until he decided baseball would no longer be his god.
Oates's wife was hospitalized for emotional and physical exhaustion in April 1995.
The timing?
His first season with the Rangers was opening.
Yet he had the courage to ask for a leave of absence to spend time with his ailing wife.
His assistants could handle the dugout.
No one else could do the husbanding.
He stood by Gloria.
The team stood by him.
In 1996, Oates was his league's Manager of the Year; for Gloria, he's the husband of a lifetime.
Jesus Christ gave us the ultimate model of masculine love: He sacrificed himself for others.
It doesn't take any special ability to live a self-centered life.
But it takes character to sacrifice.
-- Men of Integrity, Vol. 1, no. 2.
See: Mt 20:17-28: Mt 26:36-56.
Topic: Sacrifices
Subtopic:
Index: 3107-3111
Date: 7~/1998.1153
Title: Happiness in Service
One thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
-- Albert Schweitzer, missionary doctor, 1875-1965.
Men of Integrity, Vol. 1, no. 2.
See: Jn 13:1-14: Php 2:5-7.
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I. A sacrifice in Worship
!! A. Living
Topic: Self-Sacrifice
Subtopic:
Index: 3224-3226
Date: 7~/1998.1689
Title: Alive or Dead?
(God) wants our bodies as living sacrifices, not corpses.
-- Vance Havner, from The Vance Havner Quote Book~/On This Rock I Stand.
Christianity Today, Vol. 30, no.
16.
See: Mt 16:25; 19:21; Ro 12:1; Php 2:4.
Date: 7~/1996.252
Title: No Invitation Needed
A church member waiting to be asked to serve in his own church is just like the member of a family waiting to be invited to pull weeds in front of the house where he lives.
--James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited (Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, 1988) p. 87.
Other Topic~/Subtopic~/Index:
Church~/726-761
!! B. Holy
Topic: Holiness
Subtopic:
Index: 1596-1598
Date: 7~/1998.2193
Title: Deficient Vocabulary
The words holiness and sanctification are not prominent in much of Protestant theology.
We have tended to speak of justification without a commensurate emphasis on sanctification.
... Holiness means that one belongs wholly to God.
This is also the meaning of sanctification, being set apart as God's own possession.
When this begins internally, with the heart, the transformation becomes something that affects the total person.
-- Myron S. Augsburger in The Christ-Shaped Conscience.
Christianity Today, Vol.
37, no.
3.
See: Lev 11:45; 2 Co 7:1; Heb 12:14; 2 Pe 3:11.
!! C. Pleasing to God
! II.
A subject of change
!! A. A mental transformation
Topic: Mind
Subtopic: Spiritual
Index: 2355
Date: 6~/1998.2126
Title: In the Process of Becoming
I remember that first time in school when Mrs. Dirksen, my first grade teacher, asked me what my name was.
I knew that.
And then she asked me what my mother's name was.
I said to her, "Momma."
She said, "No, that is not her name."
I said, "Yes it is.
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