Monthly Archives: May 2009
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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 [...]
No Comments | Tags: community, ecclesiastes, honestyNew 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 [...]
No Comments | Tags: ecclesiastes, generosity, moneyHappy 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 [...]
No Comments | Tags: character, endurance, Integrity, passion, repentance, strength, womenThe 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 [...]
No Comments | Tags: ecclesiastes, fear of god, immanence, listen, transcendence