Every Part of Me
“Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.”
Romans 6:12-13
Patient Possession
“In your patience possess your souls.”
Luke 21:19
Shhhh
“And when those beasts give glory and honor and thanks to Him that sat on the Throne, Who lives forever and ever, the four and twenty elders fall down before Him that sat on the Throne and worship Him that lives forever and ever and cast their crowns before the Throne, saying ‘You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power—for You have created all things and for Your pleasure they are and were created’.”
Revelation 4:9-11
Lord, What Were You Thinking?
For some time, I have been thinking a lot of the trials and difficulties that a minister of Christ is suffering. And such sufferings are very true to what is happening in my ministerial life. The title of today’s message is exactly the question that I want to ask to God.
And I just want to thank my friend Tom Smith for sending this sort of lament sermon. It has touched my inner soul. I hope this will also touch yours. Blessings!!!
Holy Fear
“And all the people saw the thundering and lightnings and the noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking—and when the people saw it, they removed and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, ‘You speak with us and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.’ And Moses said unto the people, ‘Fear not—for God is come to prove you and that His fear may be before your faces, that you sin not.’ And the people stood afar off and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.”
Exodus 20:18-21
Trading My Sorrows By Darrel Evans With Chords and Lyrics
Last Sunday, we sung in the church Trading My Sorrows by Darrel Evans. I first heard this song in a youth camp more than a decade ago.
Sermon Illustrations About Being On Fire In Christ
Nowhere does the fire of God’s Word burn off the ice and cause tumult more than in the differences between generations, in the relationships between father and son and mother and daughter. These relationships tend to freeze over into a cool placidity where mother thinks her daughter must be just as she is, or son thinks he must be a carbon copy of dad. Not so, says the gospel. There will not be agreement between mother and daughter or father and son so much as there will be distinction; each will have a proper share of the kingdom of God. God’s Word burns off the ice of mutual identification and kindles the fire of proper identity over and over again.
Fret Not
“Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious against the workers of iniquity—for they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb.”
Psalm 37:1-2
When the Old Becomes New
“Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
II Corinthians 5:17