Posted by Ray Pritchard on 3.4.08 in Sermons
We have posted a new sermon called Why You Need Your Enemies and Your Enemies Need You—Part 1. Here’s an excerpt:Nothing seems more natural than to hate those who have mistreated us. But here we learn a better way. After I had preached on this topic, a man came to me afterwards and said, “Everything the world says ab …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 3.4.08 in Internet/Blogging, Sermons
We are having more and more problems with people not receiving the weekly sermon emails. That’s a growing problem with everyone who uses email both on the sending and receiving end because of the proliferation of spam. Last year spam messages increased by 100%, which anyone can attest by checking your email for fraudu …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.20.08 in Sermons
We have just posted a new sermon called Some Advice to the Discontented. Here’s an excerpt:You are where you are right now because God wants you there. You may be happy about your current circumstances or you may be miserable. Most likely you are somewhere in between. It doesn’t matter. You are where you are at …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.17.08 in Sermons, Travel
I can’t tell you where we are at the moment except that we are in the air somewhere between Chicago and Shanghai. I can report that we’ve been in the air a long time, that we’ve had three meals, and that we have watched at least three movies and a bunch of TV shows. To be truthful, we haven’t exactly …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.11.08 in Sermons
We have just posted a new sermon called Trapped! Here’s an excerpt:What do you do when you don’t like the circumstances of your life and it seems as if those circumstances aren’t going to change anytime soon? The answer is that God doesn’t look at your circumstances the same way you do. You don&rsquo …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.31.08 in Sermons
We have just posted an updated version of a sermon called When God Prays for You. Here’s an excerpt:A friend gave me a tape of a speech Gary Olson made in April 1998. Gary was a former elder of the church I pastored in Oak Park, and for many years was the head football coach at Oak Park-River Forest High School. He ma …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.26.08 in Sermons
Here are the messages I preached at the Indio Mid-Winter Bible Conference this week:Have a Blast While You LastThe Hardest Doctrine to BelieveJoseph and the Providence of GodWhen God Prays for YouDon’t You Believe in Miracles?Praying For Your ProdigalWhen You Need to Know, You’ll KnowIf I Believe, Why Do I Doubt …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.22.08 in Sermons
We have just posted a new sermon called How to Be a Leader People Want to Follow. Here’s an excerpt:When someone asked General Norman Schwarzkopf the secret of his success, he replied very simply, “I never walk past a problem.” Another friend put it this way: “Just remember, when it comes to solving …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.16.08 in Sermons
We have just posted a new sermon on the website called Have a Blast While You Last. Here’s an excerpt:It happens that I am writing these words at a missionary guesthouse in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. It is instructive to consider the preceding paragraph this way. What if I had been born in a village in Bolivia? My life woul …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.15.08 in Sermons
We have just posted a new sermon on the website called I Am a Sinner Too. Here’s an excerpt:Those serving in the ministry face many temptations, among them pride, excessive self-importance, power mania, laziness, envy, immorality, insensitivity, cruelty, hard-heartedness, procrastination, bitterness, hypocrisy, foolis …
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