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The God that Calls Us ( Gen 15:7-21 ) I. What Happens When When God Calls? II. How Does Man Stalls? III. What Does it Mean When God Lays it All?

In this message, we look at Jonah in Ninevah proclaiming the message the Lord gave him to proclaim. We will see that we need revival today, and our message is simple and clear and ultimately we need to trust in the power of God.

When we cringe in the face of circumstances, we can stay confident in the King of Kings.

When it comes to dealing with fear and worry, only trusting God will bring peace. Trust that the path you are on is the call of God, that his purposes will be achieved and that this is part of his grand and eternal mission. How do you trust him? By obediently following his word down the path, with prayer and thanksgiving, and letting him take care of the rest.

If we love Jesus... 1. We should confess our love for the Lord (vs. 15-17). 2. We should commit to work for the Lord (vs. 15-17). 3. We should continue to trust in the Lord (vs. 18-19).

Introduction: We read in 2 Chronicles 20: 12, “O our God, wilt thou not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee”. Some one has said: “When you are at the end of your rope tie a knot and keep climbing. Don’t…

Intro – One guy was explaining his tough neighborhood. He said one year 10 kids who sat on Santa’s lap got their pockets picked! That’s a tough neighborhood! Some of you are in a spiritually tough neighborhood this morning! You feel like God has picked your pockets. And a huge shadow of doubt is building.…

June 28, 2015 Intro – Americans are the most stressed-out people who have ever lived. We ooze anxiety! Some of us even organize anxiety. Lucy asks Charlie Brown if he’s worried about the world blowing up. Charlie responds, “It all depends – what day is today?” Lucy reports, “It’s Tuesday.” Charlie replies,…

Date: July 12, 2015 Intro – Need a cure for anxiety? Maybe the Psychiatric Hotline will help. Their message goes something like this: “Welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline. If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly. If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2. If you have multiple…

April 19, 2015 Intro – A man and wife were in the grocery store discussing some expensive tomatoes when a 6.6 earthquake hit. Cans and bottles crashed to the floor and things were shaking for a few seconds. When the rolling stopped, they finished shopping and returned home. But while unpacking things,…

Intro – J. B. Phillips wrote Your God is Too Small in the 60’s challenging the impotent vision of God that governs most of our lives. We’ve a great God in theory – a small God in practice. We fear a cancer diagnosis, drought, illness, investment loss, the death of a loved one more than we trust the greatness…

Intro – Last week we left John disillusioned after several months in prison. He had challenged King Herod for stealing his brother’s wife and Herod jailed him. His reward for doing right? – a dungeon! Furthermore, Jesus was doing miracles everywhere, but none for John. He began to doubt. He felt like…

TURNING LITTLE INTO MUCH – OUR PART (Luke 9:12-15) Intro – I have vivid memories of the first Clay and Liston fight in 1964. Clay was a 7-1 underdog. Everyone thought he’d lose. But he was young and quick and stunned the world when Liston threw in the towel before the 7th round. Clay rushed to the press…

July 19, 2015 Intro – A guy goes to his psychiatrist and says, “Sometimes I think I’m a tepee; sometimes I think I’m a wigwam.” The psychiatrist says, “Your problem is simple -- you’re two tents!” Pretty universal these days! Someone said, “If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs…

The generation that makes up today's young adults and teenagers has been given the title Generation X by sociologists. They are also known as Baby Busters to distinguish them from the Baby Boomers. There are 46 million of them. Taken as a whole, Generation X is more pessimistic then any other group of…

Whom Do You Trust? (Jeremiah 17:5-10) On the first Sunday of a new decade, we would do well to face the most basic of questions. Where does your ultimate trust rest? There are two places to deposit your ultimate confidence. You may place your ultimate trust in human beings. You may put your ultimate…

Out of Your Impossible Situation For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn…

Psalm 34 Trust God and You can’t lose This psalm flows out of David's experience recorded in 1 Sam. 21:10-15. It must be remembered that David had been anointed king of Israel, 1 Sam. 16 and he had been doing everything right. Now he was fleeing from King Saul. While things may not have made sense to…

Can You Really Count on God? Lamentations 3:20-23 Broken promises. A young man and a young woman stand before the preacher. Their families have traveled a long, long way for the young couple to stand at this place together. And before God and before friends and before family a young man says, “I will”…

Psalm 46. As you know, last time we started to look at the book of Haggai – I gave a bit of an introduction, and today I was going to have a look at chapter one. However …. in the meantime there has been a bit of a shakeup and all my preparation was on a computer which didn’t work because there was no…

Surrogate Mothering This Sunday is Mother's Day. Michael Duduit offers a list of things our mothers taught us: My Mother taught me LOGIC: "If you fall off that swing and break your neck, you can't go to the store with me," as well as, "If everyone else jumped off a cliff would you do it too?" My Mother…

APoG (Armored People of God) TEXT: Ephesians 6: 10-20 QUESTION: ASSERTION: INVITATION: Move 1: Introduction We are at war. You didn’t need me to tell you that. You hear it almost everyday from the President, or the news media, or from some social, political, or military leader. And there is much talk…