One of the foundations of a strong family is speaking the truth. Parents to each other and parents and children to one another. However, we all tempted to not speak the truth, which the Bible calls lying. Lying leads to weak families that have great difficulties. …
In order to build strong families, we’ve got to build them on a foundation of God’s Word. In our message series “Building Strong Families” we’ve been looking at the 10 commandments, which are the plumb line for Christian character. Many believers think they do pretty good at keeping the ten commandments. The same was true back in Jesus’ day. …
We all see and obey traffic signs everyday: stop signs, red lights, green lights, yellow lights, one-way, do not enter and speed limit signs. Some people think that the signs of just an inconvenience, to be ignored if there are no police cars around. They think that traffic signs just make their life difficult, signs impede their freedom to drive the way that they want.
But do traffic signs simply make life difficult or do they serve another purpose? Suppose you ignore that red light and go right through the intersection. You might get away with it a few times but one day somebody else will be going through that intersection and you’re going to get hit. Traffic signs are there for your own protection and for maintaining order in society. When you ignore them, you put yourself and other people in jeopardy. …
We’re currently in a message series called, “Building Strong Families.” In this series we’re looking at Ten Values that God wants us to build our families upon. These Ten Values are found in the Ten Commandments. These 10 values deal with relationships, our relationship with God and our relationships with other people. …
As we look to the New Year, we are hoping that 2011 will be better than 2010. In order to for the New Year to be everything it can be, we need to have goals for 2011. I’ve named our first message series for the New Year “Achieving Godly Goals.”
I know that people make all kinds of New Year’s resolutions. However, we want our goals for the New Year to be first of all from God. Secondly, we need God’s help to achieve those goals. …
Today my message is called “Jesus on Motives.” Motives are the inward thoughts or reasons behind our words and behaviors. Other people can’t see your motives, only you and God truly know the motives behind your actions. Motives have a lot to do with our hearts. As we are going through the Sermon on the Mount, we are seeing that Jesus had a lot to say about our heart attitudes or motives. …
