Deeply Devoted at Thessalonica (3)
Series: 1 Thessalonians
Donald Cantrell
1 Thessalonians 2: 13 - 20
I - Biblical Reception Recognized (13)
II - Bitter Restraint Reported (14 - 16)
III - Bothersome Resistance Revealed (17 - 18)
IV - Beautiful Reminders Reassured (19 - 20)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: ''The beauty of new Christians growing in grace''
Pastor Vsevolod Lytkin from Siberia recently spoke at a church in Minneapolis, Minnesota during a US visit. He described his personal journey to faith in Jesus Christ. Listen to his struggle:
His parents were atheistic university professors at a local university who raised their son to ''think for himself''. During his teen years, he struggled with many spiritual questions. When the communists told him there was no god, he reasoned that there might be a God and so began a search for reading material where he might find the answers.
The only books of religion available at his local library were atheistic, but they often quoted verses from the Bible to mock or refute them. His greatest discovery was a set of encyclopedias on atheism from which he copied every Bible verse by hand from.
It was not very long before he began to pray to God and ask Him to forgive his sins and he became a deeply devoted believer.
2Ti 2:9b KJV - ...but the word of God is not bound.
Making One's Self at Home
If anyone here ever watches the TV show Seinfeld, you know that Jerry's next door neighbor, Kramer, is very much at home in Jerry's apartment. He probably spends more time there than in his own apartment. He has his own set of keys, and lets himself in whenever he wants. He eats whatever is in the refrigerator, and takes anything else he wants from Jerry's apartment, usually returning it broken or not at all.
In a way, that's the way Jesus wants us to feel about His Word, the Bible. He wants us to spend a lot of time there, and has given us His Hol ...
Series: 1 Thessalonians
Donald Cantrell
1 Thessalonians 2: 13 - 20
I - Biblical Reception Recognized (13)
II - Bitter Restraint Reported (14 - 16)
III - Bothersome Resistance Revealed (17 - 18)
IV - Beautiful Reminders Reassured (19 - 20)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: ''The beauty of new Christians growing in grace''
Pastor Vsevolod Lytkin from Siberia recently spoke at a church in Minneapolis, Minnesota during a US visit. He described his personal journey to faith in Jesus Christ. Listen to his struggle:
His parents were atheistic university professors at a local university who raised their son to ''think for himself''. During his teen years, he struggled with many spiritual questions. When the communists told him there was no god, he reasoned that there might be a God and so began a search for reading material where he might find the answers.
The only books of religion available at his local library were atheistic, but they often quoted verses from the Bible to mock or refute them. His greatest discovery was a set of encyclopedias on atheism from which he copied every Bible verse by hand from.
It was not very long before he began to pray to God and ask Him to forgive his sins and he became a deeply devoted believer.
2Ti 2:9b KJV - ...but the word of God is not bound.
Making One's Self at Home
If anyone here ever watches the TV show Seinfeld, you know that Jerry's next door neighbor, Kramer, is very much at home in Jerry's apartment. He probably spends more time there than in his own apartment. He has his own set of keys, and lets himself in whenever he wants. He eats whatever is in the refrigerator, and takes anything else he wants from Jerry's apartment, usually returning it broken or not at all.
In a way, that's the way Jesus wants us to feel about His Word, the Bible. He wants us to spend a lot of time there, and has given us His Hol ...
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