Saturday night, I had a wonderful opportunity to perform my first-ever vow renewal service for one of our Deacons and his wife. It was their fortieth anniversary and they celebrated with about a hundred friends or so in a beautiful setting. While speaking about the virtues of a godly marriage, the passage from …
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The Greatest of These is Love
July 30, 2007 Leave a Comment
Your New Identity
December 5, 2006 Leave a Comment
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." -2 Corinthians 5:17
There is much to be said for the power of our identity. The way you live your life, make decisions, and carry yourself all depend on how you define and identify …
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God Gives the Growth
October 28, 2006 Leave a Comment
"So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase." -1 Corinthians 3:7
In six days, God made the world, then He watched it grow. He made flowers to bloom in the spring, trees to turn from sproutlings into giant oaks. He made man to develop from a tiny …
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The Motivation of Sure Success
October 19, 2006 Leave a Comment
"But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." -1 Corinthians 15:57-58
When I was in Junior High, I had a …
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Excellence
October 11, 2006 Leave a Comment
Let all things be done decently and in order." -1 Corinthians 14:40The spirit of mediocrity smothers and suffocates us. Perfectionism is an equally deadly extreme, but settling for second is not an option. We seem to live in a world of "good enough." As long as it's good enough to get by, it's okay with us.In …
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I Die Daily
September 7, 2006 1 Comment
“I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.”—1 Corinthians 15:31Have you noticed that no matter how well you feel that you handled life yesterday, today always brings new and greater struggles? Here’s the bad news: that struggle which is renewed every morning will …
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Assuming Headship In the Home
August 8, 2006 Leave a Comment
“But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.”—1 Corinthians 11:3
It is in our very human nature to resist authority and to tend toward rebellion. Therefore, when one speaks of our need to “submit” to the headship of another, …
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Little Things Matter
July 23, 2006 Leave a Comment
"Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth graet things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!" -James 3:5Yesterday, as I was trying to act goofy to get a laugh out of my daughter Ella, I bounced off our bed and my kneecap landed square against the angle-iron of our bedframe. For several …
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Earthen Vessels
July 22, 2006 Leave a Comment
“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.”—2 Corinthians 4:7When I was a kid, I collected baseball cards. Occasionally I would hear a story of someone who discovered some old cards tucked away in a special place. One such story relates to …
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My First Sermon
April 16, 2006 Leave a Comment
“Moreover brethren, I declare unto you the gospel… Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose the third day according to the Scriptures.” -1 Corinthians 15:1-4I can still remember pacing back and forth down the long dirt pathway behind Scottsville Road …
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