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Discipline: Coaching Your Children to Greatness - Various - Jan 15, 1995 - 614
This is a sermon about children, but it is not a message to children. It is a message to parents about their children. I want you to know that as I thought about this, prayed about it all week long, I feel impressed that at the end of my message we should take some time to pray for our children. I w ... More
The Tongue: Life and Death Are In Your Mouth! - Various - Oct 9, 1994 - 618
Proverbs has a lot to say about what we say. In fact, the subject of the tongue and how we use our words is perhaps the preeminent theme of this book. Over 150 times in this book alone, Proverbs refers to our lips, our mouth and our tongue. One of the central issues of the Book of Proverbs is how yo ... More
Hard Work: The Reason We Get Out of Bed - Various - Sep 4, 1994 - 624
Turn in your Bible to the Book of Proverbs, beginning in Chapter 6. We are going to begin the sermon with a number of verses from Proverbs.Proverbs 6:6 "Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider its ways and be wise. It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and g ... More
Music For A Madman - I Samuel 16:14-23 - Aug 13, 2000 - 343
The following story happened quite a few years ago. I was getting my hair cut at one of those places where you generally don't know in advance who is going to do the cutting. It happened that the girl who cut my hair had done it the last two times as well. She remembered me immediately as a pastor a ... More
William Kelly's Advice to Budding Preachers - Feb 27, 2005
William Kelly’s Advice to Budding Preachers by Ray Pritchard Recently a publisher in England sent me a brand-new book called The Irish Saint and Scholar: A Biography of William Kelly by Edwin Cross. I know next to nothing about William Kelly except that he was one of the influential early leade ... More
Integrity: The Ultimate Virtue - Various - Jan 1, 1995 - 613
I want to begin this sermon by giving you a verse of Scripture that is hard to know where it fits. It is Proverbs 24:26. It seems to fit well on the first Sunday of the new year. It says, "An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips." What does that mean? What is the relationship between an honest a ... More
God’s Medicine for a Sick World - Romans 13:8-10 - Jan 7, 2007 - 725
“Love is the medicine for the sickness of the world.” So said noted psychiatrist Dr. Karl Meninger. He summarized his therapeutic approach this way: “Love cures. It cures those who give it and it cures those who receive it." Love truly is good medicine. It has been said that ... More