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Accountability: Like Iron Sharpens Iron (2 of 3)
by Rick White
Message Truth: Accountability is foundational to the New Testament concept of fellowship. True Biblical fellowship cannot exist without the elements of stimulating one another to love and good deeds as we pursue a walk with God. Eccl. 4:12 And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three {strands} is not quickly torn apart. Introduction: Several years ago I had a brief encounter with a book titled, Disciples Are Made Not Born . It was a good reminder that while we are born again as Christians through a sovereign act of God's mercy, we do have a personal responsibility to pursue a walk with God that...
The Learning Curve (1 of 4)
by Jeff Strite
OPEN: I love superheroes. My mom once told of the times I'd go out into the yard with a bath towel tied around my neck and would "fly" around the yard. And when I was a kid I read comic books about superheroes, watched TV shows and cartoons and went to the movies to watch them battle for truth, justice and the American way. In fact, I still do. So, when a new movie comes out that retells one of those stories, I often buy a ticket, some popcorn, and sit down to enjoy myself. This past month, there was a movie about a superhero in the theatres. Does anybody know who it was about? That's right: Iron Man II. And ever since the release of...
How To Have A New Marriage By Friday Part 2 (3 of 4)
by Fred Lowery
Okay I'm glad that some of you are working on some of these things that we're talking about as we talk about marriage. My friend Jason over here, Christy, he was telling me that he took it to heart and said tell me more and got nothing done the entire week. So I'm glad that you are trying some of these things and you should have the study guide so be sure you get that. And I may not get to all the blanks filled in, don't worry about that, we do have the answers on the back. So you can fill them in at another time and then we will have hand out at the end of the service so you can, that will help you and I encourage you to go through...
Boys 2 Men (1 of 2)
by Kerry Shook
Men and women have God's autograph on their soul. "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them." Gen. 1:27 (NIV) Men and women have unique signatures from God. "'Haven't you read,' he replied, that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female'"…. Matt. 19:4 (NIV) TOP 5 REASONS WHY BOYS ARE MORE BETTER THAN GIRLS: 5 Boys can go to the bathroom in the woods.4. Boys don't waste their life at the mall. 3.Boys learn to make funny noises with their armpits faster. 2.Boys rite better than girls. 1 Boys were created first. Boys tend to have the...
A Tale Of Two Men (17 of 49)
by Jerry Watts
''It was the best of times, It was the worst of times,'' and with those two phrases, Charles Dickens begins his classic book entitled, ''A Tale of Two Cities.'' London and Paris are those two cities. Conflict is always required for drama and both of these cities possessed the potential for conflict. The American Revolution was looming large over London, while the nasty French Revolution was taking its toll on Paris. This long, classic work has become ''required reading'' for many students. This is a story which includes love, hate, sacrifice, and death and serves as a reminder that what happened in the French Revolution could also happen...
I See Dead Men Walking
by Robert Walker
The famous ''Jim'' twins, Jim Springer and Jim Lewis, are identical twins adopted by different families soon after birth and reunited 39 years later, in 1979. At the time, there were only 19 reported cases of reunited twins, so for psychologist Thomas Bouchard - the man who studied them - this reunion offered a rare opportunity to examine questions about nature vs. nurture. The similarity of the twins' separate lives shed light on the power of genes in determining our lifestyles: 1. Both were named Jim by their adoptive parents. 2. Each had married two times, the first to a Woman named Linda and the second to a woman named Betty....
God's Search For Men
by David Davis
Ezekiel 22-30 - "And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none."God created man in His image. Genesis 1:26 - "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." Genesis2:7 - "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Man was created for...
Separating the Men from the Boys
by Rex Yancey
An old Indian saw some white men building a light house. He came to the grand opening and said, ''Light shine, bell ring, horn blow, but fog come in just the same!'' This is so much like our churches. We are not making the impact that we ought to be making on our world. This is partly due to church scandals and denominational divisions. It is due to churches becoming more political than ever. Churches are to rise above politics. We do not need preachers telling the democrats to take a hike. We need preachers to preach the Word and allow God's Spirit to do the convicting and the chastening. It is due to churches not being willing to...
A Few Good Men
by James Merritt
1. The United States is known around the world as a ''Christian nation.'' There are several reasons why one might think that is true. In America there are: - 1,485 Christian radio stations - 300 Christian television programs - 96% of all Americans are ''believers in God'' - 70 million born-again believers - 148 million professing Christians - 62% of all Americans say they have ''made a commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life today.'' 1 2. Now if America is indeed a Christian nation you would think that God would honor any nation that professes to honor Him. If America is as godly as she is purported to be, it would be...
Bringing Men To Christ
by Adrian Rogers
Now, folks, the business of the church and therefore your business and my business is to bring people to Jesus Christ. Our message is the gospel, our mandate is the great commission, our master is Jesus who has commanded us to go. We have the privilege and the duty to bring souls bound in the golden chains of the gospel and lay them at Jesus feet. No greater achievement on this earth than to bring a soul to Jesus Christ. I want to talk to you today about bringing people to Jesus. Now, look with me in Mark chapter two for a moment, take your bibles, open your bibles to Mark chapter two. We're going to be on some familiar territory...
Men Of Integrity (5 of 10)
by Stan Coffey
One of the great needs in America today is for men who will keep their word. We have a crisis of integrity in every area of our culture, in every area of our society. As we think about the need of our nation, we think about the fact that it used to be that a man's word was his bond; now we're living in a time when people seem to take lying very, very lightly. Integrity is a precious commodity. So in a day such as this, when people shade the truth, when people say one thing and then later on they say something else, when it seems that we can't count on the word of our leaders, we need men of integrity if our nation is to come back...
The Biblical Convictions of Grace Energized Men (12 of 31)
by John Barnett
We are going to look at how a grace-energized man develops his convictions from God's Word. Each day we all have to live and work in a world so much like the world of the First Century. When the aged Paul sat to write his young disciple named Titus, his days like ours were full of both false teachings about God, and wrong behavior among the believers.As Paul sat to write perhaps the clearest words on how to live a life governed by Biblical convictions in Titus 2 -it was sometime between a.d. 62-64. Paul was serving the churches of Greece (ancient Macedonia), after his release from his first prison time in Rome; and before his final...
Why The Church Needs Men (3 of 7)
by Steve Jones
INTRODUCTION: Eddie was a clerk in a hardware store. He made a name for himself as the most lazy and contentious salesman ever. One day he was absent and the atmosphere around the store was like a beautiful, tranquil day after a bad thunderstorm. One regular customer remarked on the difference. The owner of the store said, "Eddie's not just away for the day, he doesn't work here anymore." The customer asked, "Do you have anyone in mind to fill the vacancy?" The owner cheerfully responded, "Nope, Eddie didn't leave a vacancy." Does the church NEED men? If all of the men were suddenly raptured out of the church...
Temptations Men Face Vii: The Temptation To Quit
by Randal Ross
(2Corinthians 1:8-10 NKJ) (8) For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life. (9) Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, (10) who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver {us}, (2Corinthians 4:16-18 NKJ) (16) Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward {man} is being renewed day by day. (17) For our light affliction, which is...
To Connect - The Power of Community (2 of 4)
by Benny Perez
I am in a New Series: It's Your Time To Connect. You see Christianity was never meant to be lived alone but always with others in mind. You think about it; if you are a Christ follower you will live for eternity in heaven. Heaven is a place where there will be other people. A study by the American Council of Life Insurance reported that the most lonely group in America are college students. That's surprising! Next on the list are divorced people, welfare recipients, single mothers, rural students, housewives, and the elderly. Americans are amongst the loneliest people in the world. Concert attendance has been slowly declining over...
