Sermon Podcast

When Father’s Don’t Love their Children

February 19, 2012

It seems like every book I’ve read and the differences between men and women has pointed out:

That men have a voracious physical interest in women while women…just don’t have the same testosterone levels driving them on.

That a lock of hair, a sultry smile, a little skin showing are all it takes to get a man’s attention, while women are drawn to conversation and sweet acts of kindness and prefer to be cared for and protected.

All the studies show it. All the experts know it. All the married people affirm it. But what do all the TV shows say? What do we see in the movies? What do the magazines sell you? The exact opposite!

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Sanctified to Get Out of the Camp

February 12, 2012

Hebrews 11:23-28; 13:1-16

Guest pastor: Dave Veldhorst, our missionary to Thailand

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Those Who Mess With God

February 5, 2012

Genesis 32

Intro: What makes you who you are? Some ethnic backgrounds have a practice of naming or at least renaming people according to things that are distinct about them. In our country the American Indian is known for this practice. It was celebrated in the movies, like Dances with Wolves. We may tend to name our kids according to ancestors, or movie stars, whereas an indian might name them according to something they like or saw recently.

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Does God Deliver?

January 29, 2012

Intro: I was young, innocent, infatuated with a short, blonde girl not altogether unlike my someday-to-be wife. Ah, but this was long before true romance. Anyway, I digress. Being the romantic type and also a happy Christian, when I came across a Mizpah coin, it struck me as the perfect thing. Here was a coin cut puzzle-like in half, each half attached to a chain. The coin as a whole read the loving verse “May the Lord watch between me and thee while we are apart one from another.” Wow, so heartfelt. So Kings English with “thee”s and “whilest”s. So much more than the common, “Yo! God Bless!” I bought it and gave half to the short blonde. It said it was 14k gold overlay, but when my half started turning green I didn’t care. This was romance!

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The Baby Race

January 22, 2012

Genesis 30

Intro: Last week I drove down the street of a mobile home park in Black Oak that was the scene of a news report not so long ago. A little boy had been kept in a dog cage for several years before eventually murdered. This was a case of serious abuse.

John was giving several of us local pastors a tour of Gary. Along the way he would stop and point out homes of people he knew, families most of whom had gone through deep tragedy. There lived Tony before he drowned. Andrew was shot right there. Greg was in trouble with a gang and that’s where his house used to be. His mom died in the fire. Cases of human abuse.

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A Marriage that’s Not User Friendly

January 15, 2012

Intro: Of all the soap opera stories, this is surely one of them. Same guy marries two sisters, can’t make either one of them happy. Loves one and not the other. Tricked into bed and consequent marriage with one of them. Googoo-eyed over the other one. They fight behind his back. One is hard on the eyes (“weak eyes” probably means nothing striking, something prized in the East). The other is hot and curvy according to the biblical narrator. But the jaw-dropper little sister can’t have kids, the honor of the culture. The matronly older sister is a baby factory. If we learn anything here it’s never marry your wife’s sister!

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Filling Your ‘Shared Folder’

January 8, 2012

Intro: Over Christmas break my boys and I went snowboarding. I learned some things snowboarding:

Falling down repeatedly gets old.

When you get older, you fall down more repeatedly than your children do.

The more you fall down, the more tired you are at the end of the run.

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Ministry of Multiplication

January 1, 2012

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“Is It Really More Blessed to Give?”

December 25, 2011

2 Corinthians 8 & 9

Intro: Most of us are familiar with Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. The crabby old man Scrooge out of gratefulness for a second chance at life decides to be a happy, giving man. The transformation is incredible. Several biblical themes show up in the story:

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“Drilling New Wells”

December 18, 2011

Intro: They call them ministry shares. Ways we share in bringing other people into a relationship with Jesus. About ¼ of our budget, $98,000, goes away from here to our regional group of churches, and our denomination so that together we can send people to Thailand, or Nigeria, or study materials to Russia, or aid to colleges we’ve begun so as to turn out mature Christian people in the market place. That’s no small deal! And considering how God is so good at expanding our gifts, it will probably only be in heaven that we find out just what happened with the dollars we gave up for God’s kingdom.

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