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A Sermon By BPB WUMC May 29, 2011 COINCIDENCE OR GOD’S FINGERPRINT, Part IV “Thank You, Lord, For Prayers Unanswered!” (Romans 8:28) One of the most difficult things to know is how does God answer prayer? And perhaps even more difficult, why are some of our prayers...
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A Sermon By BPB WUMC May 15, 2011 COINCIDENCE OR GOD’S FINGERPRINT, Part II God Already Knows (Jeremiah 29:11) When the good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of overtime when the angel Gabriel said, “You’re doing a lot of fiddling around on...
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A Sermon By BPB WUMC March 13, 2011 24 HOURS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, Part I When In Trouble, Go To A Garden! (Mark 14:32-42) If you knew that you were facing the most threatening problem of your life, where would you go for help? For strength? For understanding?...
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A Sermon By 1. BPB WUMC March 6, 2011 WHY THE VIRTUOUS LIFE IS IMPORTANT, Part IX. The Virtue of Self-Control (Leviticus 9: 1-24) We Americans have forgotten that it’s alright and probably downright healthy to be . . . . bored. Yes, you heard me correctly. For many of us, our lives...
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A Sermon By BPB WUMC February 27, 2011 WHY A VIRTUOUS LIFE IS IMPORTANT, Part VIII The Virtue of Gentleness (Ezekiel 34:11-16a) In a week of demonstrations taking place in multiple countries in the Middle East, even at the cost of human lives; in a week...
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Today’s virtue is faith and it is much too big of a subject to grasp in one life time. That’s why we are led to believe that faith itself matures and grows even in heaven.
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KINDNESS…don’t leave home without it! We’ve looked at the virtues of love and joy and peace and patience and goodness. We’ve said that these virtues have a lot of inter-connectedness, each with the others. And that is true. As you give emphasis to one of these 9 virtues, you will...
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The words “good” and “goodness” are scattered all through the Bible. And I would imagine that many of us can remember the texts I just listed. There are 646 expressions of the word “good” in the Bible. Needless to say, this virtue is everywhere.
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Truthfully, everything is connected, isn’t it? Thoughts-words-actions-habits-character…there is a linkage between them all.
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We are still in the Upper Room (for the third week in a row) with Jesus and the disciples. It’s Maundy Thursday; Jesus will be nailed to the Cross on just the next day, Good Friday. He has talked about love already, and He has talked about joy. Jesus now turns...
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Ironic isn’t it? We are still in the Upper Room with Jesus and the disciples. By this time the next day, Jesus will have died upon the Cross. Time is precious…because time is running out. A few verses earlier, Jesus talked about love. In this breath, He is talking...
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It is a lesson on servant hood…“No servant is greater than his master…I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you,” Jesus said. And of course, the ultimate lesson on servant hood waited for Jesus at Calvary.
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How much of your life is planned for you? It is a worthy question but not easily answered. No, I am not talking about predestination here. That’s the belief that thinks God predetermines our lives from start to finish and all you and I do is act out the script already...
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