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Let's Go Fishing - Matthew 4:19 - Jul 1, 1990 - 578
Somewhere in my past I heard the story about a man who was a phenomenal fisherman. He was so good that his fame spread far and wide. When everyone else was catching two or three fish a day he would come back with two or three hundred. Eventually the local game warden decided to investigate becaus ... More
Are You Living By Creative Risk? - Matthew 4:22-32 - Oct 20, 1991 - 785
It was Helen Keller who said, “Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing at all.” Those words would ring true no matter who said them, but coming from someone who lived a life like Helen Keller, they merit special consideration. Born blind, deaf and unable to speak, she someh ... More
Kingdoms in Conflict - Matthew 6:10 - Oct 6, 2009 - 1219
“Your kingdom come.” Matthew 6:10Before we begin: What is the kingdom of God? In what sense is it a present reality? In what sense is it yet to come? How would things be different if you had a “God invasion” in your life? Your family? Your workplace? Your neighborhood? Someti ... More
Praying For the Sick - James 5:13-16 - May 7, 2000 - 13
If you have read the title, you know exactly what this sermon is about. Praying for the sick is something we are all asked to do from time to time. It is certainly something that all pastors do every week. That fact alone makes the subject important, especially when I consider that in four years of ... More
A Survival Kit for Tough Times - I Peter 5 - May 8, 2005 - 606
We come this morning to the end of our series on I Peter. This is the 24th and final message. We started on the last Sunday of July and we end on Mother’s Day. It was summer when we started and we end with summer not that far away. In my first sermon I said that we were going to study I Peter ... More
40 Amazing Days: The Original Founders Week - Acts 1:1-3 - Feb 1, 1998 - 628
If you are a regular listener to Moody radio, you know that the annual Founder’s Week Bible Conference begins tomorrow night. What you may not know is that this historic conference started in the 1890s when D.L. Moody asked that the students at the Institute be dismissed from class on his bir ... More
The Triumphant Christ - I Peter 3:18-22 - Mar 13, 2005 - 599
This is the hardest passage in the New Testament. That’s what my Greek professor said when we were studying I Peter in seminary. I recall him saying that there are so many possible views about these verses that it is impossible to be certain what they mean. The problem partly relates to the Gr ... More
Praying for the Sick–Part 1 - James 5:14-15 - Aug 18, 2009 - 1210
“Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven” (James 5:14-15).(I am dedi ... More
Does God Lead His Children Into Temptation? - Matthew 6:13 - Oct 10, 2009 - 1223
“And lead us not into temptation.” Matthew 6:13aBefore we begin: What is the difference between temptation and testing? How can a temptation to sin become an avenue for spiritual growth? Does God lead his children into temptation? This is not an easy question to answer. We know what th ... More
Deliver Us From Evil - Matthew 6:13 - Oct 11, 2009 - 1224
“And deliver us from the evil one.” Matthew 6:13b Before we begin: If you were Satan, how would you attack the children of God? How can our failures prepare us for greater things in the future? Out of the blue I got an e-mail message from my college roommate - a man I haven’t see ... More
Repent! The Forgotten Doctrine of Salvation - Acts 17:30 - Aug 9, 1998 - 246
In 1937 the American Tract Society sponsored a contest in which they offered a prize of $1,000 for the best new book written on one of the “essential evangelical doctrines of the Christian faith.” Sixty-one years ago, $1,000 was a lot of money and a great many well-known Christian author ... More
