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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Last week, I began a new series of messages entitled Living in the Fullness of the New Covenant. I pointed out that there are two ways to relate to God: law or grace...the Old Covenant or the New Covenant.
We looked last week at what it means to reign in life ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Earlier this week, a woman in the Bronx was shot in the stomach with an arrow. It wasn't me....honest. I'm not good enough to actually hit someone, if I tried. And I certainly can't reach the Bronx.
I've got to stop using props when I preach. Right Ken?
Anyway, we're in a ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Billy Crystal, in the movie City Slickers, is speaking with his friend and makes the philosophical statement, "You know, there's only one thing that's really important in life."
"What's that?" his friend asked.
"I don't know." said Billy Crystal. "I only know that there's one thing that's really important."
He was not the ...
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
Welcome to the new year---2009! It seems like just yesterday, it was 2008.
The beginning of a new year is always a good time to evaluate where we are and where we want to be. It's a time to make changes, establish priorities and set goals for the new year. That's ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
I hope, like Mary, you're not letting the Christmas season slip away without "treasuring up and pondering" all that God is speaking to you. If you take time to listen, God will speak to you---through His Word, through others, through His Spirit, through the events of life.
God has a way ...
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
"You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart" (Jeremiah 29:13)
This Sunday, I begin a new series that I'm very excited about. It's entitled Seeking God. What does it mean to seek God? How do you seek God? Why do we need to seek ...
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
This Sunday, I'll be concluding my series Living in the Overflow of God's Love with a message entitled "A Heart Set Free." The title is taken from Psalm 119:32, which reads:
"I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free."'
The more you live in the ...
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
This Sunday, I'm continuing my series of messages entitled Living in the Overflow of God's Love. My text is Ephesians 3:16-17:
"I pray that from His glorious, unlimited resources, He will he will give you mighty inner strength through his Spirit. And I pray that Christ will be more and more ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
This Sunday kicks off a new ministry season at Montclair Community Church.
I'm not going to begin a new teaching series just yet however. This Sunday, I'll be concluding my summer series Great Verses To Live By, which has turned out to be a very popular series of messages. In my 7th ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
The above title is shorthand for Paul's statement is Romans 12:2. The longhand version reads as:
"Don't be squeezed into conformity with the world's upside down values and prioritiies, but instead be transformed from the inside out. How? By renewing your mind with the rightside up thinking of the Word of God."
This Sunday, I'll ...
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