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The Believer’s Warfare Message 9 The Helmet of Salvation Me: A Facebook post SBC-Pastors It’s certainly an interesting group No sure how well I fit in. I do get a lot of illustrations from it. It’s really like being a mail person you never know until you experience it A pastors question “I hear a lot…

This Week’s Theme: The Church Succeeds As One Memory Verse: Numbers 32:18 “18 We will not return to our homes until every one of the children of Israel has received his inheritance.” This Week’s Word is Discourage : A sense of unhappiness arising from a loss of confidence in one’s own abilities, in the…

David’s Time on the Run Part 3 Today we are going to finish this section, and we have to move through a couple of areas and disregard a few things for this study because we do not want to get bogged down in the life of David only and especially during his time on the run, but nonetheless, these things…

I have made the statement over this past year that “I would rather take a decade of 2020 over six months of 2019”. I’m not saying that the difficulties we as a family went through were more or less difficult than what God may be allowing you to go through What I am saying is that life brings struggles,…

Distance can increase anxiety, but faithfulness brings joy.

We do not lose heart Ever feel discouraged or disheartened? It is easy to get like that when we go through face tough things. Paul had lot’s of reasons to lose heart, but did not, so let’s take some time and look today at how not to lose heart or being discouraged. Paul’s statement regarding losing heart…

In 1854, 17 year old Dwight Lyman Moody moved to Boston looking for work. His family was poor, since his father died and his mother was caring for 9 children. He was desperate for better living conditions, so his mother sent him away. He moved to Boston to work as a salesman for his uncle in the family…

HANNAH: A WISE INVESTOR 1 Samuel 1:1–28 Intro : There has been a lot of focus recently on the stock market. If you watch the news, it doesn’t take the commentators long to tell you either how well or how poor the market is doing. In fact, there are trillions of dollars, much more than we can comprehend,…

It seems that the story of the New Testament disciples, Paul, Barnabas can be Big Stories after Big Victories Anybody else feel like their lives are on some roller coaster - Life is going alright, then something happens and you feel like you are scraping the bottom of the bucket for energy or resources…

Hope is essential to not just survive—but to thrive. Take hope away and life stops, growth stops, creativity stops, effort stops. So it is understandable, that when Jesus was about to ascend to heaven, his disciples were afraid and discouraged. In Jesus’ final words to His disciples during His earthly…

Introduction In a recent article by Francis Bridges of Forbes Magazine, she gives several ways to maintain your mental health during the Christmas season. This time of year work and social calendars kick into high gear. Work becomes busier in anticipation of time off in the coming months, and there are…

We overcome the cause of our discouragements by administering faith's cures.

The Attitude of Worry Proverbs 23:7 Philippians 4:6-9 May 27, 2018 Introduction: Worry has been defined as “a small trickle of fear that meanders through the mind until it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” Green, M. P. (Ed.). (1989). Illustrations for Biblical Preaching: Over…

Strength in Weakness Joel Adkins / General Rollercoaster Spirituality Turning points are tricky events in life. Turning points give us the opportunity to change for the better or for the worse… to embrace opportunity or to run from responsibility. Jacob is on the edge of the land of promise… and he wrestles…

Psalm 99 1 The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake! 2 The Lord is great in Zion; he is exalted over all the peoples. 3 Let them praise your great and awesome name! Holy is he! 4 The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity;…

GOOD NEWS HAS AN ENEMY Holy Week As we continue through this week we’ve arrived at Thursday. And Jesus is going to celebrate Passover with his disciples. We will talk more about Passover in the coming weeks. We will talk more about the Last Supper meal in the coming weeks. But this morning we are going…

The words “are we done” can have different meanings based upon the different settings in which it is used. These words can be declared with somewhat of a confidence that all the options have been explored or all the tasks have been completed. The classic Aesop Fable of The Milkmaid and Her Pail is a…

3 Questions for determining our source of Discouragement. God’s Cure for Discouragement God encourages us to Work at being Courageous William Carey: Except great things from God; attempt great things for God. God’s Presence Encourages us to Fear Not When We Work, Believe God’s Glory will Come. Warren…

Do I Have To? Is Discipline Enough? Last week I closed by saying that we would do a review of John 17 this week. That was a joke, we are not going to continue in John 17 that study is done.Today we are going to do a 1 week study, yes it is really just one wee. Study on a Scripture that just hit me hard…

Holy War We closed last week with the demise of the giant Og, last of the Rephaim (see Deut. 3: 1-11 ). Israel’s battles in the Transjordon bring us face-to-face with an issue that has troubled bible students, pastor and scholars for centuries: the practice of extermination in Israel’s war of conquest.…

Background: The children of Israel have been brought out of bondage from Egypt. They have been gone for 3 months. They have traveled 190 miles. They have come full circle back to the place where Moses met God, The Great I Am, in the burning bush at Mt. Sinai Now, for the first time in 400 years, they…

Introduction Civil Defense Siren: Did you know that the siren which blasts at 12pm in Bartlett is not called a Tornado siren. It is referred to many in that way because that is its most frequent use in our area. Its actually called a CIVIL DEFENSE SIREN because it purpose is to alert the population in…

Two psychologists, Dr. Robert A. Emmons of the University of California, Davis, and Dr. Michael E. McCullough of the University of Miami, have done much of the research on gratitude. In one study, they asked all participants to write a few sentences each week, focusing on particular topics. One group…

Harmony Philippians 4.1-5 Covid-Fear, panic, no toilet paper in the stores. Four commands from Paul that help you have a secure mind. I. Defend What You’ve Got (1) 1 Therefore, my beloved brethren whom I long to see , my joy and crown, in this way stand firm in the Lord, my beloved. (1.) He loved them,…

An evangelist preaching a revival one night asked all who wanted to go to heaven to raise their hands. Everyone in the audience did so, except one elderly man sitting near the front of the sanctuary. The preacher pointed his curly finger at him and said, "Sir, do you mean to tell us that you don't want…