sermonette: Faith And Control
Waiting For God
David C. Grabbe
Given 15-Jan-05; Sermon #701s; 15 minutes
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David Grabbe, reflecting upon William Hensley's poem Invictus, examines mankind's obsessive desire for control. Much marital conflict emerges from someone in the relationship needing to exercise excessive control. The father of the faithful, Abraham, unfortunately did not always rely on faith, but occasionally took the expedient way (wanting to exercise control over the details), attempting to speed up God's timetable, but reaping some bitter fruit in the process. We have areas of our life directly under our control (such as overcoming our human nature), but must relinquish control( as father Abraham) of the major details of our lives to God Almighty's sovereign direction .
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Abraham Desire for control Faith in ourselves Faith Frank Sinatra Marital conflict Sarah Yielding to God
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