Playlist: Aging (topic)
The Purposes of Aging
Sermon/Bible Study by Richard T. RitenbaughAging forms part of the life cycle established by God for human beings. This cycle includes birth, maturity, aging, and death. Society regards aging as a curse and promotes efforts to delay it through products, surgeries, and lifestyles. God intends aging as a process of growth rather than decline. The period of aging occurs …
Deadlines
Sermonette by Joseph B. BaityIn a recent study, scientists declared that, regardless of lifestyle or environmental factors, each human being has a clock with its own expiration date.
Increasing Your Life Span
Commentary by Martin G. CollinsAging affects the future welfare and mental state of individuals from about age 16 onward. Americans have six lifestyle choices as they age with four of those choices involving work. Retirement is the point where a person stops full employment completely although a person may also semi-retire by reducing work hours. Many people …
Simplifying Life (Part Two)
Sermon by David F. MaasThe days of human lives span seventy years or by reason of strength eighty years, yet their boast consists only of labor and sorrow, for life is soon cut off and people fly away. After reaching seventy-five or seventy-six years, individuals realize they live on borrowed time and must treasure each additional day as a blessing …
Ecclesiastes Resumed (Part Forty): Ecclesiastes 12:1-14
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughAging brings difficult days and years without pleasure. Physical abilities decline as arms tremble, legs weaken, teeth become few, eyes dim, ears deafen, sleep disrupts easily, fear of heights increases, hair whitens, movement slows, and desire fades. These changes make life more difficult by sapping pleasure, diminishing …
The W's and H's of Meditation (Part Two)
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by David F. MaasSenior citizens become alarmed when they forget where they have placed their keys or parked their car or cannot match a name with a familiar face. Older people expect memory deterioration. Meditation improves learning, memory, and self-awareness. Meditation improves rapid memory recall and reduces the risk of Alzheimer's and …
Stewardship of God's Temple (Part Five)
Sermon by David F. MaasSome have foolishly denigrated the value of physical exercise by taking Paul's admonition to Timothy totally and hopelessly out of context.
Still Producing Fruit?
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughWe must remain spiritually productive to the very end, allowing experience, obedience, and perseverance to refine us into mature disciples.
Stewardship of God's Temple (Part Two)
Sermon by David F. MaasEven though individuals do not necessarily practice spiritual fasting for physical reasons, the physical benefits supply types that teach us spiritual things.
God, Why Am I so Lonely?
Sermonette by Craig SablichBecause of God's outworking, we may consider isolation a vital key, causing our spiritual vision and understanding to become sharper through fewer distractions.
Mutability and Our Christlike Response
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughWe all change repeatedly throughout the stages of life, as do others, requiring constant adjustment as to how we evaluate and treat others.
Appreciate the Gift
Sermonette by James BeaubelleWe should continually choose to look at the work God is doing in our lives and take advantage of the new knowledge imparted to us by the Holy Spirit.