Title: Stand Firm (8 of 9)
Series: Finding Your Way
Author: Tony Thomas
Text: 1 Peter 4:1-11
The NBA team of the 90s was the Chicago Bulls. They won six titles, twice winning three years in succession. They were affectionately called, "The JordainAir's," because Michael Jordan, the world's best basketball player was surrounded by average players, like Horace Grant, John Paxson, Scottie Pippin, Dennis Rodman, and Steve Kerr.
During the 1993-94 season, Phil Jackson, the coach, called a team meeting after their fifth consecutive loss. He said, "There will be two buses available tomorrow. The first will be for those players who need extra work, and it leaves at 2:00 p.m. The empty bus will leave at 3:00 sharp!"
Like the Bulls, today's passage is for everybody. Let's read it together:
1 Peter 4:1 Since Christ suffered physically, you too must strengthen yourselves with the same way of thinking that he had. Whoever suffers physically is no longer involved with sin.
2 From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires.
3 You have spent enough time in the past doing what the heathen like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lust, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols.
4 And now the heathen are surprised when you do not join them in the same wild and reckless living, and so they insult you.
5 But they will have to give an account of themselves to God, who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
When President Clinton was impeached for perjuring himself under oath he was the recipient of harsh criticism. His harshest critic, perhaps, was a David Vitter, a Senator from Louisiana. He was relentless!
He appeared on every news program who would have him stating that Clinton was unfit for public office.
But it didn't take long for his voice to go silent! Brian Ross of ABC N ...
Series: Finding Your Way
Author: Tony Thomas
Text: 1 Peter 4:1-11
The NBA team of the 90s was the Chicago Bulls. They won six titles, twice winning three years in succession. They were affectionately called, "The JordainAir's," because Michael Jordan, the world's best basketball player was surrounded by average players, like Horace Grant, John Paxson, Scottie Pippin, Dennis Rodman, and Steve Kerr.
During the 1993-94 season, Phil Jackson, the coach, called a team meeting after their fifth consecutive loss. He said, "There will be two buses available tomorrow. The first will be for those players who need extra work, and it leaves at 2:00 p.m. The empty bus will leave at 3:00 sharp!"
Like the Bulls, today's passage is for everybody. Let's read it together:
1 Peter 4:1 Since Christ suffered physically, you too must strengthen yourselves with the same way of thinking that he had. Whoever suffers physically is no longer involved with sin.
2 From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires.
3 You have spent enough time in the past doing what the heathen like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lust, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols.
4 And now the heathen are surprised when you do not join them in the same wild and reckless living, and so they insult you.
5 But they will have to give an account of themselves to God, who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
When President Clinton was impeached for perjuring himself under oath he was the recipient of harsh criticism. His harshest critic, perhaps, was a David Vitter, a Senator from Louisiana. He was relentless!
He appeared on every news program who would have him stating that Clinton was unfit for public office.
But it didn't take long for his voice to go silent! Brian Ross of ABC N ...
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