Homeland Security, a brand new department created after 9/11. To make the connection we need, more than ever, to ensure that the most important homeland is secured permanently!! There are holes in the wall, enemies lurking about that are intent on destroying your family and mine. We will spend these next 3 Sunday mornings looking at how we can protect and provide for our homes to make them the godly homes He wants them to be.
As we continue through our series here that focuses in on the family, children the same requirements apply for you too – we must be filled up with the Holy Spirit and submit to one another. This is Christ’s call on your life and we will see this morning how that fleshes out. Parents, this is what you should expect from your children and require from them and this...
So this morning we come to talk to ladies. Now men don’t zone out here. This is how you can help her, pray for her, and encourage her. Ladies, I am not a lady obviously, so I am no expert; so I am relying heavily on the Lord this morning (as I should every time!), to share truth from God’s Word and principles from His Word and from the perspective as a man.
We have different roles to play in the family as God designed it. Roles that are distinct and different and yet just as important as the other one. The man is called to be thermostat in the home, which determines and regulates the temperature in the home. The incredible challenge and opportunity that God has given to every man. We are called to lead our homes as God...
Can you remember back to the day of your wedding? For some of you that is easier than others, and hopefully your wedding wasn’t like that! It was a special day, a day you will never forget, a day of passion, of romance, of worship, of sharing, of wonderful memories. Yet how quickly all of that fades into the sunset as the couple walks, rides, or drives off into it. Something quickly changes. So this morning, we want to talk a look at this idea of a love that can last a lifetime.
THE GODLY MAN IS SUCCESSFUL - Why? Because he is blessed. The word blessed is the Hebrew Word ashreey meaning oh how happy, blissful. We see the same word used in Matthew 5 it is from the Greek Word, Makarios, means happy, fortunate, blissful, joyful over the top happiness. Blessed used to refer to God Describes that joy which has its secret within itself, that joy which is serene and untouchable, and self contained, that joy which is completely independent of all the chances and changes in life. This is the kind of happiness God desires for His children, a state of joy and well-being that does not depend on physical or temporary.....
We really don’t know who wrote this Psalm, but what a wonderful and powerful Psalm it is. How appropriate is the Psalm today in the days of terrorist attacks, crazy new diseases, drive-by shootings, school shootings, and the list goes on and on. We live in perilous times! So did the writer of this Psalm....
At night the shepherd would count and inspect every sheep to make sure they were there and ok. Shepherds use oil for three purposes, to repel insects or as we just saw snakes, to prevent conflicts, and to heal wounds. Bugs drive sheep crazy, can even kill them. Shepherds pour oil over their heads to keep the insects at bay and keep the flock at peace. Also, the rams would butt each other during mating season, so he would grease them up so they would glance off each other. But even then, sometimes a sheep would get....
I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. John 17:14-17
When David wrote this Psalm – Remember David was a shepherd early in his life, maybe then. Perhaps when right after he faced Goliath, or maybe when running from Saul or even his son Absalom, but I would like to think that he wrote it later in life as he looked back and reflected on it all and how faithful God had been to him!
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