WHO IS ON YOUR THRONE? Galatians 5:16-26 INTRODUCTION: Today we will be asking the question: “Who is on your throne?” In 2008 the movie Fireproof came out and it talked about a fireman named Caleb Holt. He was a normal man, selfish and hung up on himself. His marriage was in trouble but then something […]
NO SWEAT LIVING! Matthew 6:25-34 INTRODUCTION: Some people call it tension, others call it anxiety; Jesus calls it worry. It is true that Jesus said the things people worried about 2,000 years ago are still worrying people today. We still worry about finances: Matthew 6:19. We still worry about having enough food and fitness: Matthew […]
GODLY THINKING FOR SUCCESSFUL LIVING! Psalm 86:1-17 INTRODUCTION: Do you know how-to walk-in God’s way, in order to live in God’s truth? Psalm 86:11; Psalm 103:7. Do you know that you can receive Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior and still not be walking with godly zest because we maintain worldly thinking? Romans […]
TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED! Isaiah 40:28-31 INTRODUCTION: In our modern society we think we are very sophisticated. We think we have greatly increased in knowledge. But when we truly analyze the true facts all we have really done is added speed and noise to our lives. Daniel 12:1-4. Yes, people are running to-and-fro, but […]
SATAN AND THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF EVIL! Ephesians 6:10-18 INTRODUCTION: We are in a spiritual battle; an invisible war and we have an enemy that desires to destroy us. ! Peter 5:8-9. When Satan fell into sin he took a third of the holy angles with him into rebellion against their Creator God: Revelation 12:3-4; […]
BEATING BACK BAD THOUGHTS! Mark 7:14-23 INTRODUCTION: Our thinking is important to our God and should be to us also. Why should it be so important? Proverbs 23:7. If we harbor doubt about the promises of God in our heart, it will produce fear in our lives. Our Lord Jesus and the Apostle Paul’s teaching […]
OUR SPIRITUAL ENEMY! 1 Peter 5:8-11 INTRODUCTION: We are involved in an invisible spiritual war. Ephesians 6:10-12: We live at the intersection of the invisible and the visible. Our spiritual enemy seeks to blind us all to the truth of the spiritual war that is going on all around us today. IDENTIFYING OUR ENEMY! […]
SEASONS OF STORMS! Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 INTRODUCTION: In Michigan we experience all four seasons of the year. We experience the beauty of winter, spring, summer and fall. In the midst of each of these four seasons we experience seasons of storms. We experience thunder storms, tornadoes and even floods in spring and summer. In the winter […]
STRONG IN THE SPIRIT Romans 8:1-16 INTRODUCTION: In Romans chapter seven we see the normal Christian life of “the harder I try—the worse it gets!” However we are encouraged to live not in Romans chapter seven but to move over from living in the flesh to living in the Spirit of our God in Romans […]
THREE G s! Matthew 5:21-28 INTRODUCTION: We are facing many major issues that are decaying the very foundation on which our nation was established but often it is the little things, the minor things that go on in a nation that cause the most destruction: Song of Songs 2:15. We look at our sins as […]