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| Excuse Me If I Reminisce |
| "When you have been watching productions on television or in the theater that have a cast of thousands and a budget of millions it becomes a hard act for the programs of the church to follow. It becomes hard to sit still for a sermon if you have been playing a blow your brains out computer game or watching “Terminator 2"... Read Sermon |
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| Getting Ready for Jesus to Come |
| I like the way my dad puts it. He says that obedience didn't put Lucifer into heaven, but disobedience took him out. Obedience didn't put Adam and Eve into the Garden of Eden, but disobedience took them out. Jesus has a huge problem. If he can take living people back into heaven who are not obedient from the heart and who are not living according to His revealed will, He is going to have to take the devil back, too... Read Sermon |
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| Give the Gospel a Chance |
| "Now I am not going to say that we shouldn't study the mind. But I am not sure that it should be called a science because the human mind is really unpredictable. We can describe how it works, but we cannot say with certainty what it is going to do next.".. Read Sermon |
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| Give the Gospel a Chance |
| "This generation has no problems with imitations. As long as it looks and tastes like the real thing we can bestow on it the name Grape juice. That way of seeing things may be harmless for some things, that is, for the eyes or the taste buds. It is another story if it is something that has to do with the eternal-something that has to do with the soul.".. Read Sermon |
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| He Speaks Your Language |
| "Be careful when you hear people talking a lot these days about legalism. The word is being used more and more often as a smoke screen to try to play down the Ten Commandments.".. Read Sermon |
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| Holiness Our Destiny |
| "Many people who are members of the visible church often complain about the rules, such as "What's wrong with this," or "I don't agree with that!" On the other hand, the members of the invisible church don't sit around trying to see how much they can get away with or how they may do their own thing as they see it. Rather, the people in the invisible church want to know more and more of what we might call the rules and regulations of the eternal God. They are not trying to get out of the rules--they are actually trying to get into them. This is because God is writing His law in their hearts and their greatest joy is to do His will.".. Read Sermon |
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| How Do You Know When You Have the Holy Spirit (pt I) |
| "When our ministers are filled with the Holy Spirit does it mean they will be able to do mass healing no questions asked? I believe correct prayer for the sick is found in James 5 and you can see that it is not standing up before the television cameras and shouting, “Heal, heal, heal ...”.. Read Sermon |
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| How Do You Know When You Have the Holy Spirit (pt I) |
| "If being able to do miracles means for sure that a person has the Holy Spirit then the devil must have the Holy Spirit because the Scripture speaks of the spirits of devils working miracles. (Revelation 16:14)".. Read Sermon |
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| How Do You Know When You Have the Holy Spirit (pt2) |
| “A person who seeks the Holy Spirit for gratification of His spiritual fantasies or for personal gain in power or popularity may very well receive a spirit and exhibit those characteristics. But they will not be from the Holy Spirit of God, but from another spirit. God will not be used by us. He is not God because of us. But we are created by Him for His pleasure and for His glory.”.. Read Sermon |
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| How Many Doctrines Are "Too Many"? |
| "There is no need to be embarrassed or even intimidated by those among us, whether inside or outside the church, who seem to be trying to belittle or depreciate the great truths that our heavenly Father has so graciously revealed to those who are preparing to be alive when He appears the second time. We ought not try to minimize how much we know about the gospel; rather we should want to know even more. I personally don't believe that 27 doctrines are too many. Inasmuch as the doctrines help us to understand the gospel more clearly, I could wish we had many more. Here is where the promise of the Spirit comes in. Jesus said He would send the Spirit, and He would lead us into all truth.".. Read Sermon |
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| Is Our Preaching Relevant? |
| "Make no mistake about it. God raised up this church in these last days and gave it the Spirit of Prophecy--and we are talking here about the ministry of Ellen White--to keep us from being confused like the rest. The Spirit of Prophecy is a God-inspired commentary of Scripture especially for the context of these last days. The person who throws out the Spirit of Prophecy or seeks to denigrate it will themselves become confused and is putting their salvation at risk.".. Read Sermon |
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| Is the Church for Everybody? |
| "God has room for everybody but not for anybody. God has room for everybody but there is always a comparative few that are willing to pay the high price of discipleship.".. Read Sermon |
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| Is the Church for Everybody? |
| "Modern advertising is not amoral but basically immoral because it appeals to every carnal motive in the hearts of men and women. Modern advertising tries to link up with lust, greed, with covetousness, and with pride, just to name a few. To use Madison Avenues' marketing principle to sell the gospel is to corrupt the truth and is an affront to Him who is the gospel-our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.".. Read Sermon |
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| Is There a Madness in Our Method? |
| "But, we need to recognize that most Bible references to music occur in direct connection with worship and the service of God. That means that music in Scripture is used more in connection with man's religious faith rather than with his general feelings.".. Read Sermon |
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| Is There a Madness in Our Method? |
| "If the rock music medium is so effective in communicating with young people, why not use it in schools, colleges, and universities? Why not give biology some beat, jazz up geometry, get into heavy metal history, and liven up languages by doing them in a disco? The reason is obvious and that is, the medium does not fit the message.".. Read Sermon |
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| Joy in the Pursuit of Holiness |
| Holiness is not a word that is defined by a survey of people's ideas. Holy is what God is, and to know what holiness is, we must discover who God is. We will never learn what holiness is in the marketplace but only in a diligent and prayerful study of His Word... Read Sermon |
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| Love Bombs |
| "The reason that I say this is because though this generation claims to be open minded , it is probably as closed minded as the old generation ever was. It may not appear that way, but I have found as a minister all I have to do is say one sentence that the person doesn't agree with and the rest of the sermon is out the window.".. Read Sermon |
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| Love Bombs |
| "I'm glad, though, that when we finally get down to the truth, it makes more sense than lies. Lies are always dumb if you really look into them. Lies are laying all over the ground but you have to dig for truth. But when you find it, you will say,” But why didn't I see it that way from the first?”.. Read Sermon |
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| Mistake of the Heart |
| "I will always remember one time I was talking with one of the leaders of the youth in our denomination. The person said to me, “ Dick, what we need to do is take you, the church of yesterday, and we who are the church of today, and together we will forge the church of tomorrow.” I called him by name and said, “ Excuse me, I am the church of today!”.. Read Sermon |
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| More Than a Friend |
| We must not tinker with the Almighty. We must not try to play up one of His attributes and play down others. Though this does no damage to what He intrinsically is, it does huge damage to us and to what we may become when we have a clear concept of who He is. -.. Read Sermon |
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