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- Addressing
the Concerns of the Genuinely Concerned
- There are those in most churches who are simply
negative. If it's not their way, then to them,
it ought to be the highway. There are others
who are genuinely concerned with some of the
things that are going on in the church and these
concerns need to be addressed.
- An
Interview With the Boss - An imaginary interview
with Lucifer reveals some of his latest strategies.
- Are
Adventists the Only True Christians? - Who
are the "Elect?" How will God get His people
together before He comes? Also available in
Spanish.
- Before
It Is Too Late - How long do we have to
get ready for the coming of Jesus? The Church
used to preach that there would be a close of
probation after which time it would be too late.
Were we wrong to preach that or are we wrong
to not be preaching it now?
- Broken
Cisterns - Is all Christian counseling really
Christian? What are some pitfalls to look out
for.
- Can
There Be Unity in Diversity? - It seems
like we are hearing everywhere that we are united
in our diversity. Is this a possibility or is
it an oxymoron? Also available in Spanish.
- Can
We Agree To Disagree? - Some are telling
us that we don't need to agree in the church
anymore. We will just agree to disagree they
say. What about the text that tells us that
in order for two to walk together they must
be agreed? This sermon will cause you to do
some serious thinking.
- Can
We Make the Gospel Simple? - Have we been
preaching a complicated gospel? Is it possible
to make it simple?
- Characteristics
of True Obedience - A person is not fifty
percent obedient or almost obedient. They are
either obedient or they are disobedient, yet
they may not yet be perfectly obedient in the
absolute sense of the word. You will definitely
want to read this one!
- Close
Your Eyes and Be Surprised - Jesus tells
us to be alert. Why are so many of us asleep
at the wheel?
- Coloring
Outside the Lines - Does encouraging young
people to "color outside the lines" bring reformation
and revival to the church or will it bring a
revolution? This is a sermon to think about.
- Compassion
- The call for compassion in the 21st century
can very well be the smoke screen behind which
the forces of evil make a grab to neutralize
and disarm the forces of righteousness. This
sermon will show what compassion really means.
- Danger
of a Golden Rule Gospel, The - Someone made
money with WWJD! Was there more here than meets
the eye? Read this sermon and think some new
thoughts about the significance of the current
trends. Also available in Spanish.
- Danger
of Prayer, The - Has God gotten involved
in Sports? With all the prayer before the games
you would think so! Learn how prayer is being
trivialized.
- Death
of Truth, The - Does truth still exist?
Or is it truth if it is true to you?
- Doers
of the Word in Our Lifestyle - This sermon
speaks of the commandment that is hardly ever
mentioned. A hint: Have you checked the balance
on your credit cards lately?
- Effective
Prayer - Often we want to go to the "how"
without understanding the "what" of prayer.
Before we pray we must make sure that our prayers
are consistent with God's "codes" and "zoning".
- Essential
Attitudes of Effective Prayer - To get new meaning
in relationships we need to have new attitudes, not new
techniques. The techniques that the world is pushing these
days, if implemented in our lives, can destroy our relationships,
make no mistake about it.
- Excuse
Me If I Reminisce - You may have heard that
there are now some churches who are including
liturgical dancing in their worship service.
They say that the Bible recommends it. This
sermon will tell you the truth about what the
Bible has to say about dancing. Print this sermon
out and share it with a friend. Get the truth
out.
- Familarity
Breeds Contempt - This sermon teaches that
as long as we don't respect God we cannot respect
each other. It also contains some challenging
thoughts about reverence and modesty.
- Fruit
of the Spirit - A Must or an Option, The?
- Do we need to go to Jesus or do we need to
go to the doctor? Has the Gospel outlived its
usefulness? Are Prozac and Zoloft our only hope
now?
- Gate
of Heaven - How many ways are there to heaven?
How difficult is it to get there?
- Getting
Ready for Jesus to Come - What would you
do about it if you knew that Jesus was going
to come on a particular day, in a particular
year? How should you live if you don't know
when He is going to come?
- Give
The Gospel A Chance - The devil wants us
to think "once a loser always a loser." He also
wants to hang his loser label on us and we have
often allowed him to do just that. This presentation
questions if what passes itself off as Christian
psychology is in every case Christian.
- Gospel
According to Jesus, The - Many people have
become experts in the Gospel according to Paul
or the Gospel according to the Books of Daniel
and Revelation. This sermon shows how we must
begin our study of Scripture by understanding
the Gospel according to Jesus.
- He
Speaks Your Language - This sermon shows
how the devil is taking over our language. He
is giving new meanings to the words we use to
explain the gospel.
- Heart
of Worship, The - Instruments have no more
status in worship than the radiators which supply
heat to the building. God trusts us to use such
'helps' reasonably, but they must never be elevated
into a form of worship." This sermon literally
goes to the heart of worship.
- Holiness,
Our Destiny - Why is it that whenever someone
begins to talk about holiness in the Christian
life, someone else hits the "righteousness by
works" button and the concept is aborted? Holiness
is what salvation is all about.
- How
Do You Know When You Have the Holy Spirit (pt
I) - What can you expect to happen in your
life when you have the Holy Spirit. Should a
person expect to speak in tongues or to fall
backward to the floor? It is even better than
that. This sermon will be a blessing to you.
- How
Do You Know When You have the Holy Spirit (pt
II) - If a person knew what will happen
when he has the true infilling of the Holy Spirit
he might even think twice about praying for
it. This sermon will show the fundamental changes
that come into the life when the Holy Spirit
is in our hearts.
- How
Many Doctrines are "Too Many"? - Some people
say the church has too many doctrines. If this
is true which ones would they be? Read this
sermon and decide for yourself.
- Identifying
the Issues in Christian Entertainment -
The issue of Christian entertainment is not
a matter of culture or personal taste as some
may suggest. Discover the underlying principle
that will set the problem to rest.
- Ignorance
Is Not Bliss - During our watch the devil
has institutionalized a heresy that unless dealt
with zeroes out escatology as taught by the
Seventh-day Adventist Church. From this false
doctrine Satan will be able to deceive those
who are not rooted and grounded in the Word.
Evangelists report that once accepted, this
false doctrine is very difficult to counteract.
- Is
Guilt OK? - They are telling us that we
should feel guilty about feeling guilty. What
role does guilt play in the Christian life?
- Is
Our Preaching Relevant? - Is the Gospel
in the 21st century the same as it was in the
1st century? If Paul were alive today would
his preaching be different? This sermon asks
the question: Is much of the preaching that
is being done today relevant? and concludes
the answer is no.
- Is
the Church for Everybody? - If the Church
is for everybody, does that mean that it is
for anybody?
- Is
There a Madness in Our Method? - Some say
that we agree in principle, and we only disagree
in the methods that are being used to communicate
the gospel.Are methods "program neutral" or
is there a madness in our method? Also available
in Spanish.
- Let's
Not Talk About Works Anymore - If you insist,
we won't talk about works anymore. But do me
a favor and see what the Bible has to say about
the fruit of the Christian life.
- Love
Bombs - This sermon tells you how love can
kill.
- Missing
Link, The - Sermons seemed to be about anything
and everything except one thing. This one thing
is the missing link and nothing will be right
until it is given proper place which is first
place. (Hint: It is what a person does first
when he lets Jesus into his heart.)
- Mistake
of the Heart - If we are to love the Lord
with all our hearts, can anything else matter?
- More
than a Friend - What is the highest relationship
that a person can have with God? Some say it
is friendship. What does the Bible say?
- No
Turning Back - There is something about
to happen that will slam the door on the gospel.
It could happen to us.
- None
of These Diseases - We have been proud of
the "Health Message". Those who have followed
it have less cancer and heart disease. But what
about the "disease" of divorce? Shouldn't there
be more to health than only physical health?
- One
Taken and the Other Left - When Jesus comes
he has his reward with him. Some will be saved
and others lost. He must have decided beforehand
who was who. This sermon discusses why it is
necessary to have a judgment before he comes.
- Only
Ethical Thing to Do, The - This sermon discusses
what a person should do when they feel that
they no longer agree with the doctrines of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
- Our
Worship in the Pursuit of Holiness - We
are in what are called "the worship wars". How
we worship immediately is an indication of who
we are worshipping. Our worship is a reflection
of who we think God is. A right concept of the
Holiness of our God will lead us to true worship.Also
available in Spanish.
- Perfect
- a Must or an Option? - Some people are
very anxious for the perfect job or the perfect
car but are uncomfortable with the idea of doing
the perfect will of God. This sermon will make
you glad that God is calling you to such a high
goal. Also available in Spanish.
- Perfect
- How Do We Sign Up? - When Jesus calls
us to be perfect, he is doing us a favor.Don't
forget that whenever God expects us to do something,
He always gives us the power to do it.
- Planning
to Win - What is secret of the victorious
Christian life? We know how to fix it when it
is broke. What about some preventive maintenance?
- Powerful
Gospel - They say you were born that way.
Is there hope for us sinners?
- Pursuit
of Holiness--Our Part, The - They are telling
us: "Let go and let God." The problem is that
if we let go on the salvation train we might
fall off.
- Setting
the Stage for Worship - Many are using the
Old Testament as a model for worship. Let's
do that and see what happens to the use of drama
in some of today's worship services. Let the
Bible decide.
- Shades
of Gray - Often we hear someone say, "That
is a gray area". Does the Bible agree? In the
eyes of God are there things in our lives that
are neither good nor bad?
- Shall
We Be "Politically Correct"? - Political
correctness is being used by a minority to impose
their beliefs on the rest of us. The idea of
political correctness has even somehow gotten
into the church. Whether or not something is
politically correct should not concern us, rather
the issue should be decided on whether or not
it is in harmony with the Word of God.
- Shall
We Fight 'em or Join 'em? - Increasingly
there is the call to Christian Unity and even
for a return to a day of rest. How shall people
who understand last day prophecies relate to
these things? What should be the conditions
for Christian unity and a return to a day of
rest?
- Show
Me - Some say that the Christian life must
be understood in the context of the culture
where one happens to live. This is based on
the assumption that culture is amoral. Does
the Scripture teach that the Christian life
must fit the culture or is it the other way
around?
- Slain
in the Spirit - Millions of people are attending
revivals that are sweeping America. Whatever
happened to the Latter Rain? Or is this it?
- Stop
the Music - Was music meant to divide the
church or to unite it? Is there something about
the music that is being used in worship in many
places that is more significant than just "my
kind of music" or "your kind of music"? Also
available in Spanish.
- This
Little Church Went To Market - They are
telling us that Christ's method alone will bring
true success. Are dance, Christian rock and
theater in the worship service Christ's methods?
In the proclamation of the gospel is the consumer
always right? This sermon will tell what has
happened to Adventist churches which have most
closely followed contemporary methods.
- Thoughts
on Seventh-day Adventist Leadership - Is
an administrator necessarily a leader? Is our
church really being led by an agendized minority?
Who will be our leadership models in the 21st
century? Will it be Bill Hybels, Rick Warren
or Jesus?
- To
Obey or Not to Obey -- That is the Question
- In many quarters there seems to be a move
to spiritualize away disobedience. The church
that was raised up to call the world to keep
the Ten Commandments now seems, in some places,
to call that kind of preaching 'legalism'.
- We've
Been Fooled - They told us that if we would
contemporize our churches we could save our
young people. We've been fooled. I lost a grandson
to a Seventh-day Adventist pastor who took his
church from Sabbath to Sunday.
- What
Are We Waiting For? - We can begin to think
that when things really get bad in the world
somehow we will wake up and get serious about
spiritual things. The parable of the talents
should be a wake-up call. This sermon is based
on the old adage, "If you don't use it, you
will lose it."
- Whatever
Happened to Character Development? - Where
did all of this about temperaments come from
in the first place? The concept was invented
before the tiime of the New Testament. Have
the four temperaments become a substitute for
character development?
- Whatever
Happened to the Rules? - Whatever happened
to "Church Standards" Many people are glad that
the "check list" seems to be going, going...gone.
Have we "thrown out the baby with the bathwater"?
- Whatever
Happened to Sin? - Things should be getting
better and better in society because according
to the culture what we used to call sin isn't
anymore. Unless there is a clear concept of
sin there is no need for salvation.
- What
Happened to the Caring Church? - There are
churches where you are welcome as long as you
don't try to be a leader. Are people leaving
the church only for theological reasons? This
sermon is for elders, deacons and other church
leaders.
- What
Happened to the Cross? - Believe it or not,
the cross is actually being put down by some
who claim to be holding it up.
- What
to Do About a Dead Church - If your church
is dead and you like it that way, shame on you!
This sermon rejects the extremes and makes some
positive suggestions for liberals and conservatives.
- What
is Wrong With the Word "Adventism"? - Is
there a historical link between how"Judiasm"
affected the message of the 1st coming of the
Messiah and how "Adventism" could affect the
message of the 2nd coming?
- When
and Where of Effective Prayer - Some people
think they can stay ahead in the rat race. But in
the long run, unless we are in ongoing communication
with God, unless we learn the meaning of effective
prayer, the rats will win!
- When
the Clock Strikes Midnight - This sermon
is about Y2K but it is designed to not go out
of date until Jesus comes.
- When
United We Fall - When is being united strength
and when is it weakness? When shall we stand
together and when shall we separate? There is
a time when unity is essential and another when
it could be fatal to our salvation. You will
be challenged by this sermon.
- Which
Way Is Up? - This sermon discusses some
words of Jesus that everyone quotes but no one
believes. He might have had good intentions,
but Lord it just doesn't work that way. The
fact is in the Kingdom of Heaven that is the
only way it works.
- Who
Are We Fooling? - The Bible tells us not
to judge each other, but then it tells us we
must judge ourselves. This sermon explains the
difference and tells us why.
- Who
is Your God? - Is God ever more loving than
He is just? This sermon explains how God is"One".
- Who
Prays and Why - When the disciples asked
Jesus to teach them to pray He did. What is
the single most important aspect of prayer?
- Why
Be So Negative? - Why is so much of our
preaching negative? Can't we just be upbeat
and optimistic? What's wrong with a Super Bowl
party in the church social hall?
- Winds
of Change - Some seem to be for change,
and others are against it. Yet the gospel calls
for change. How then shall we change? On what
basis?
- You
Be the Judge - When we are talking about
right and wrong, morality and immorality, good
and evil, it is not uncommon for someone to
say, "But we are not supposed to judge." This
sermon shows from scripture that the purpose
of the church is to discern between good and
evil, and to point out right from wrong.
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