This sermon is to remind mothers that ordinary acts like birth, nursing, clothing, and feeding their children are no more than what animals do for their young. The Bible shows exemplary women and teaches rules for much higher goals for mothers. Bible Economics Money matters! Solomon said it ...
Rather than obsess over money or allow it to cause us undue anxiety, we can embrace Christ’s words during the Sermon on the Mount: “Do not worry and say, ‘What are we to eat or drink?’ or ‘What are we to wear?’ All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows ...
I was a bit skeptical about how this series would be able to help me with entering pastorship. I find myself concerned about how to write a sermon, although professionally I am an author and speaker. I perceive being a pastor as something that is reverent and teaching the word is a cal...
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Now when I heard Scripture being read or a sermon being given, I was grasping them with an understanding that really related them to my own life. I became aware that I was surrounded by love, protection and guidance from unseen sources that were as real as anything that existed in the ...
stimuli, fruitful and rife.As student, as teacher, as man.The seasons so quickly have flown;The cycles of time swiftly ranAnd taken dear friends I have known.And soon will I turn to the west,West, where the sun sinks from view.To welcome the long, peaceful rest,After bidding all ...
Possible opening illustrations Illustration: "As we began to pastor our first church, my wife, Lori, and I found we were going to have a third child," Bill wrote. "Several weeks later, Lori was going through her clothes, which no longer fit. Watching her, our 5-year-old son asked, ...
I didn’t feel there were too many illustrations of the ugliness of war and the heroics that took place over and over again, but I did feel once Frankie returns home that her struggles, which are all valid, could have been treated more concisely and still delivered the same point. Oh,...
Ralph Sheldon, who had the reputation of being a spendthrift, still left some property to his sons upon his death. In the fifties, Sheldon was involved on more than one occasion in suits at law aimed at protecting his nephew’s holdings. See W. N. Clarke, “Illustrations of the State ...
The trade signs (and they were almost as many as the shops) were, all, grim illustrations of Want. The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves. The people rudely pictured as drinking in the wine-shops, croaked over...