Just before his team left the locker room to play for the national championship of college football at the Fiesta […]
Text: 2 Timothy 4:6-8You’ve probably heard the old joke about the fellow who was told, “Cheer up. Things could be worse.” So he […]
Text: II Timothy 3Almost five years ago we started sending free copies of my books to prisoners across America. Through a partnership with […]
Text: II Timothy 2:14-26Today we are beginning a summer series from the little book of II Timothy. People sometimes wonder how pastors choose […]
Text: II Timothy 1Are you looking around and complaining, or are you looking up and comprehending? As God eavesdrops on our lives, He makes a distinction between those who know Him and those who do not. We see this in the last verse of Malachi 3: “And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
Text: Malachi 3:13-18Blessings come to those who tithe and amazingly, Malachi 3:11 states that God will keep certain bad things from happening when we give Him our first fruits. When we give, we put ourselves in a position to trust God to meet all my needs. In addition, God declares in verse 12 that His plan for global evangelization will be met. Can you imagine what would happen to the cause of missions if every believer would give at least 10% to kingdom purposes?
Text: Malachi 3:6-12Jesus sometimes puts us in the fire in order to purify us until He can see His image in us. Remember that He prunes so that we can grow because He is much more interested in our character than He is in our comfort. He takes His launderer’s soap and cleans us so that we’re forgiven. Isaiah 1:18: “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”
Text: Malachi 2:17-3:5After listening restlessly to a long and tedious sermon, a 6-year-old boy asked his father what the preacher did the […]
Text: Malachi 1:6-14A man was having a hard time getting out of bed one Sunday morning. “Get up. It’s time to get […]
Text: Malachi 1:1-5With this sermon, we are almost to the end of the “Praying with Paul” series. There is one more sermon […]
Text: Romans 15:5-7