Monthly Archives: May 2009
Transparency
Posted May 25, 2009 – 12:41 pm in: Messages[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Ecclesiastes 7:1 is a turning point in the book. In the earlier 6 chapters, the preacher taught by using stories. From here on, the primary mode of teaching is proverbs.
Rather than look at all the individual topics brought up in Ecclesiastes 7:1-14, we spent last Sunday looking at the [...]
New Car Caviar Four Star Daydream
Posted May 19, 2009 – 11:18 am in: Messages[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
It’s now time to turn to a topic that preachers have a typically poor track record with: money. Some preachers leap off the deep end with greed, while others cling to their legalistic interpretation of Old Testament law. Too many ignore the topic all together.
My plan of attack is [...]
Happy Mother’s Day: Five Stories of Character
Posted May 11, 2009 – 10:44 am in: MessagesSolid character is difficult to find today. People seem to be more concerned with developing their career skill-set than personal moral qualities. While the gospel is emphatically not about making bad people morally good, morality is a significant consequence of new birth.
On this Mother’s Day, we looked at five different women in scripture, studying the [...]
The Position is Taken
Posted May 5, 2009 – 10:56 am in: Messages[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
There’s a brilliant line in the movie, “Little Boy and Fat Man”:
You’ve got to stop playing God, because you’re not good at it and the position is taken!
Yet that’s the perennial temptation: to be like God. That’s how Eve was tempted, and it’s what we still crave today: to [...]
