The title of my sermon for this morning is "Make Sure of Your Focus." It is directly tied to the themes that I have begun back at the last sermon that I gave in July and then the sermon I gave, I believe it was last Sabbath, and this one …
Among the accolades men shower on great leaders, perhaps the most honorable is "father of his country." Here in America, we have designated several famous Revolutionary War-era figures as "Founding Fathers," but there is virtually no …
Both the Old and New Testaments have instructions and admonitions about the importance of congregational fellowship and regular Sabbath attendance. One of these appears in the Sabbath command in Leviticus 23:3: "Six days shall work be …
(20) So Jesus said to them, "Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, "Move from here to there," and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. (21) However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting."
The disciples' question, "Why could we not cast it out?" suggests that they could not see any reason for their failure. Jesus replies emphatically, "Because of your unbelief. . . . [T]his kind does not go out except by prayer and …
"The days of our lives are seventy years," writes Moses in Psalm 90:10. King David concurs: "Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow" (Psalm 144:4). Unlike God, "who inhabits eternity" (Isaiah 57:15), we mortals have a limited existence. Due to our finite time, we tend to view things through the lens of immediacy. We continually take stock of where we are and how much progress we have made toward this or that goal. We take a short-term view of time—relative to God, at least—and in our zeal for efficiency, we measure where we are against where we have been to get an idea of …
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