The ‘Fear Nots’ of Christmas

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The rock star Sting, in a Rolling Stone interview, spoke of his growing awareness of his own mortality: "I'm 64. Most of my life ...

Loud Cries and Tears

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It’s dangerous to preach on suffering because many of us are in very different places right now. Some of us are in agony, some ...

Worthy of Worship

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How many of us have had the thought that if we had this one particular thing, then our life would be better than it is now? I can remember ...

The Characters of Christmas: Mary

This sermon is part of “The Characters of Christmas” sermon series. See the whole series here.

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Dave Richards was raised in a strong ...

Here I Stand

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We’ve been learning from Paul’s example how to witness well when our faith is on trial, which raises a question for us to consider ...

The Lord Needs It

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As we started tonight, you helped reenact one of the biggest moments in the life of Jesus, which was when he enters Jerusalem, which was the ...

Growing in Wisdom

This sermon is part of the “More Than a Holiday” sermon series. See the whole series here.

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I’m excited to kick off our Advent ...

Receiving Power

This sermon is part of the “More Than a Holiday” sermon series. See the whole series here.

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We’re in the fourth week of our ...

How to Survive in a Fallen World

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Americans are threatened in a way today that I think is unusual in our history. Just this week I read parts of three publications freely available ...

How to Love the Lord Your God

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(Read Deuteronomy 11:1-7)

I want to label the message "How to Love the Lord Your God." In the Book of Deuteronomy, Moses has already ...

Why has the Lord Done this for Us?

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There are portions of the Scripture that teach truth propositionally. They directly state truth claims. You'll find that, for instance, ...

The Test

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Elie Wiesel, the great Jewish writer known best for his writing about the Holocaust, wrote many other things as well, including Messengers ...

More Than Meets the Eye

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Life is really about perspective. Last night, my wife went to a concert in Dallas with some friends and family. I got home, and my son was ...

Learn God's Law

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We naturally like to hear of philanthropy, of charity, of giving. Our hearts may be warmed as we hear of Bill Gates or Warren Buffett choosing ...

R-Rated: Cut Up Your Rebellion

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(Read 1 Samuel 15)

In a presidential election year you're going to hear a lot, from various candidates trying to be President, about ...

The Forgotten Man of Christmas

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There was a family which like many of our families has a Nativity set, and each Christmas season they would set that Nativity set up beneath ...

Changed People, Changing Lives

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Read Acts 5:12, 17, 19, 21, 29-31

The holy city of Jerusalem has had a wonderful event. They had tried their best to say no to what Jesus Christ ...

To Obey Is Better than Food

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The Scripture text this morning is Matthew 4:1-4:

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after ...

Broken but Chosen

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It took Michelangelo four years to craft his statue of David. It is 13-feet tall. He used flawed marble. We know the exact quarry the marble ...

Ignoring Clear Directions

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I'm known among my family and friends for having a terrible sense of direction. It doesn't matter whether I am driving or walking. It doesn't ...

God Will Bring Justice for You

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When the Scripture was read, you may have thought, This is a strange message for a weekend when we are welcoming large numbers of first-time ...

He Who Must Be Obeyed

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It was probably 20 years ago; I was sound asleep one night when the phone rang. I grabbed blindly for the receiver, clattering on the phone ...

The Big Picture of God's Faithfulness

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A few years ago there was an ad on TV that started like this: There was a woman sitting in a car. She's minding her own business, and suddenly ...

This Is No Time to Pray

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In this series we have discovered some things about responsibility and irresponsibility. First, you were created to manage and carry responsibility. ...

Take Me to Your Leader

Let's look at today's text together:

Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount ...

Jesus, Lord of Creation

Have you ever told a joke that someone didn't get or think was funny? And then you tried to explain it and it was even less funny? Jokes are like poems: ...

Jesus, Lord of the New Creation

The first sermon in this series started exploring this passage by looking at how Jesus is the Lord of Creation. Part two is titled "Jesus is Lord ...

Hungry World

Story behind the sermon (from Mark Buchanan)

"Hungry World" is part of series our church's preaching team did in the fall of 2010. The series was called ...

Making Parents Weighty

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We've been working through the Ten Commandments and today we come to the fifth one: "Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God ...

The Name

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Today we're on our third sermon in a series on the Ten Commandments. Imagine if everybody on the planet obeyed the Ten Commandments. In a ...

The Right God, the Wrong Way

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Last week we began a series on the Ten Commandments. We saw that the Ten Commandments weren't given as a requirement for salvation, but rather ...

A New Philadelphia

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There is something in a name. My name is Mike. Actually, Michael's not my first name; my first name is Jerry. I'm Jerry Michael Breaux. On ...

The Key to Church Development

People ask me, "Why has your church grown through all these years?" I'm going to answer the question in a way I think will shock you.

We are told constantly ...

Unlistened to Lessons of Life

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It was in 1965 that I graduated from Moody Bible Institute, and a week later to the day, Charlene and I were married. Then 10 days after that ...

The King Whose Scepter is a Towel

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It was time to celebrate the Passover, the most sacred of Jewish feasts. Upwards of three million people might spend the week in Jerusalem. ...

Lifestyles

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A group of scientists got together who wanted to win the Nobel Prize. They thought, What can we do that's never been done? How can we use ...

Return to Power

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We talk a lot here at New Life about the kingdom of God. The reality is that the kingdom of God comes first in the lives of God's people. ...

God's Unstoppable Purpose

Text: 2 Chronicles 17:1-18:34
Topic: The unstoppable will of God

From the editor:

Here's a sermon from Old Testament professor Dennis Magary (Trinity Evangelical ...

God's Green Earth

Introductory remarks from Steve Mathewson:

This sermon definitely resonated with my listeners! Many of them had already been practicing environmental stewardship ...

Blessed Are the Persecuted

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Imagine you are in the market for a new car. You visit the dealer and the salesman who is showing you the latest model takes you for a test ...

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

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The troops the United Nations deployed to the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan look like they could be soldiers from just about any nation. ...

Blessed Are the Pure in Heart

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Through the centuries there have been some people who have wanted to view Jesus' teaching in the Beatitudes as a kind of ladder that can carry ...

Blessed Are the Merciful

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Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg entered the diplomatic service and was appointed foreign minister of Austria in November 1848. After the Hungarian ...

Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness

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A businessman decided to throw a party for some of his clients, and because he was doing so well, he spared no expense. He hired the most ...

Blessed Are the Meek

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Suppose the company you work for were to write a description of the ideal person to be its new CEO. Do you think meekness would be on the ...

Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

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"No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear." That is how C. S. Lewis begins his book A Grief Observed, a compelling account of ...

Less is More, More or Less

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A few months ago my two teenage sons came to me and asked if they could go camping for a week … on Lower Wacker Drive in the city of ...

Welcome to the Pearly-Gated Community

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In the first sermon in our series, I talked about the primary person we will get to see in heaven: Jesus, face to face. Now I want to talk ...

Fall

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My wife, Cheryl, and I had an opportunity in 2004 to spend a week in New Brunswick. We started in St. John, spent a couple of days in the ...

The Way of Wisdom

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As Christians, we say we want to love God, and we want to love people. We want to serve the world. This idea comes from the core of Jesus' ...