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Sermon: Live Generously
Zach Terry
Acts 20:35
DAD JOKES OPENING:
In honor of Dad's everywhere, I thought it would be appropriate to open with a few Dad Jokes...?
What do you call a surprise attack by a group of pigs?
A hambush.
How do you cut the ocean in half?
With a sea saw.
When my wife told me to stop impersonating a flamingo I had to put my foot down.
I don't trust stairs. They're always up to something.
Did you hear about the road where all the crazy people go?
It's a psycho path
I've forgotten all my boomerang jokes, but I'm sure they'll come back to me.
What do you call it when Batman skips church?
Christian Bale
INTRODUCTION: Suppose I knew a secret that was guaranteed to take the knob of blessing in your life and turn it up to the maximum setting? Would you want to know the secret?
If your answer is, ''yes'' don't feel bad. You see, I am firmly convinced that God hardwired humanity to desire blessing. As a matter of fact he uses our desire for blessing as an incentive throughout the Bible.
As a matter of fact the first sermon Jesus ever preached, ''the sermon on the Mount'' could be entitled, ''How to be blessed according to Jesus''. The first word of the first sermon he preached was Blessed.
So if your answer to my question is, ''Yes'', don't feel bad.
ILLUSTRATION: JABEZ - Year's ago before the book came out I was introduced to Jabez, that enigmatic figure from the Old Testament.... You know who he is don't you? His story is found in the middle of a long genealogy - so and so begot, so and so, etc. etc. Then suddenly the Holy Spirit stops and says in 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 (ESV) 9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, ''Because I bore him in pain.'' 10 Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, ''Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that i ...
Sermon: Live Generously
Zach Terry
Acts 20:35
DAD JOKES OPENING:
In honor of Dad's everywhere, I thought it would be appropriate to open with a few Dad Jokes...?
What do you call a surprise attack by a group of pigs?
A hambush.
How do you cut the ocean in half?
With a sea saw.
When my wife told me to stop impersonating a flamingo I had to put my foot down.
I don't trust stairs. They're always up to something.
Did you hear about the road where all the crazy people go?
It's a psycho path
I've forgotten all my boomerang jokes, but I'm sure they'll come back to me.
What do you call it when Batman skips church?
Christian Bale
INTRODUCTION: Suppose I knew a secret that was guaranteed to take the knob of blessing in your life and turn it up to the maximum setting? Would you want to know the secret?
If your answer is, ''yes'' don't feel bad. You see, I am firmly convinced that God hardwired humanity to desire blessing. As a matter of fact he uses our desire for blessing as an incentive throughout the Bible.
As a matter of fact the first sermon Jesus ever preached, ''the sermon on the Mount'' could be entitled, ''How to be blessed according to Jesus''. The first word of the first sermon he preached was Blessed.
So if your answer to my question is, ''Yes'', don't feel bad.
ILLUSTRATION: JABEZ - Year's ago before the book came out I was introduced to Jabez, that enigmatic figure from the Old Testament.... You know who he is don't you? His story is found in the middle of a long genealogy - so and so begot, so and so, etc. etc. Then suddenly the Holy Spirit stops and says in 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 (ESV) 9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, ''Because I bore him in pain.'' 10 Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, ''Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that i ...
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