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Tests Into Treasure
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Ian Barclay wrote that in 1588 terrible storms lashed across the Orkney Isles. A Christian fisherman wrote that as he saw his home, his boat, ...
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The Man the King Delights to Honor
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[Read Esther 3:1-6 and 6:1-10]
Esther is a Jewish woman who becomes queen of Persia, and as we have seen and will continue to see, she uses ...
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It's Not About Me
Introduction
"What is it, Doc? What do I have? What's wrong with me?"
It's a question we all ask ourselves from time to time. When we ...
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The Lawful Pleasure of Praise
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The key insight of this sermon is this: God will lavish his people with praise on the Last Day. Those who are in Christ can expect to find ...
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Suffering and the 'U-Curve' of Life
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A story that I think about from time to time may also be one that you are familiar with. There was a wise man who lived on the northern frontier ...
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Your Brothers' Keeper?
Introduction
Sibling rivalry is a reality of life. For those who have a sibling or two, it starts young. Like the first-grader who came home and proudly ...
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The World Is in Trouble
Introduction
What's wrong with the world? That's a question that many people are asking, and there's no shortage of answers being given: the ...
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Who Am I When I Sin?
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The early Christian movement had a list that is famous to this day: "The Seven Deadly Sins." The seven sins on the list were pride, envy, ...
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Who Am I When I Sin?
Introduction
The early Christian movement had a list that is famous to this day: "The Seven Deadly Sins." The seven sins on the list were pride, envy, ...
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It's God's Party, Not Yours
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People question my wife and me about where we live and how we choose to spend our money. They basically say, "You know, it's OK with God if ...
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Hezekiah: Healed but Boastful
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Today we're going to be looking at Isaiah 38 and 39. I was thinking this week as I pondered these passages that the Bible is a lot like an ...
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Deep Desire
A love/hate relationship with the world
Christians have always had a "love/hate" relationship with the world. On the one hand, the most famous verse in ...
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Looking Up to Heaven
A shattered Colossus
The poet Percy Bysshe Shelly tells of meeting a traveler from an "antique" land who describes the ruins of a great statue in the desert. ...
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The Judgment of Grace
Chapter five of Daniel addresses the question of what would happen if you gave a party, and God crashed it. Nebuchadnezzar was no longer on the throne. ...
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Christmas in the City of Jerusalem
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We're going to do something a little different this year in December. We want to focus on a "Hometown Christmas." Typically we tend to think ...
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Heart Worm
Over these past weeks we've been looking together at some conditions of the human heart that obviously need help. When we meet somebody whose life is ...
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Who Can We Trust?
From the editor:
Here is another sermon from one of our featured preachers, David Anderson. Anderson uses the story of Samson and Delilah to explore issues ...
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Love Does Not Boast
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Over the next few months, PreachingToday.com is going to run an entire transcript series from Haddon Robinson on 1 Corinthians 13. The ...
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Learning from Tiger Woods
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In late November 2009, a series of events led to a bevy of stories about infidelities on the part of golf's greatest player, Tiger ...
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The Wise Men Cry Glory
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Here's a great sermon from one of our featured preachers—Mark Buchanan—that explores the story of the Magi and Herod through ...
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Image Management
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In her wonderful book Breathe, author Keri Wyatt Kent names four crucial commitments necessary to finding our way into a saner kind of life ...
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You're Fantastic
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Of all the comic books turned into motion pictures of late, my favorite one is the Fantastic Four. For those not in the know, it is a tale ...
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Trophy Kids
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When our eldest son was making preparations to start his freshman year of high school, I overheard him telling a classmate that he was planning ...
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The Neighbors Are Nuts
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When I was a kid, my parents used to drag me out to church on Sundays. I'd walk into this big building in a shirt and shoes that seemed too ...
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The House of Expectancy
Introduction
Have you wondered what makes one person open to God and the next person closed? What makes Sally receptive, attentive, responsive to God's ...
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Your Whole Life Matters to God
Introduction
I once read an article in the New York Times entitled "How the Worm Turns." The article focused on a group of scientists who spend ...
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Speaking Truth
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For the next few weeks, we're following the story of Saul and David in First Samuel. We discovered last week that he is one of these characters ...
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Public Performance Is Easier than Private Devotion
Introduction
If you are just joining us, this is the third week in a six-week series entitled "Adventures in Missing the Point." We have been learning ...
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God's Backward Logic
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As we all sit here this morning, a good friend of mine lies in the hospital in Gallup, NM, waiting to die. His name is Johnny Womack. Johnny ...
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When to Flee: No One Is Impervious to Sin
Text: Colossians 3:5-10
Topic: What to do when you encounter temptation.
In Focus on the Family we have a crisis number for pastors and Christian leaders. ...
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The Great Reversal
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I don't know about you, but I have always been amused by oxymorons. For those of you who have never heard that term, an oxymoron is a combination ...
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A Contrast of Thanksgiving
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It seems to me that appreciation is often related to contrasts. We are told the beauty of art is not just in color, but it's in contrast. ...
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Good Guys, Bad Guys, and Us Guys
When I was a boy growing up in New York City, one of the nicest ways for me to spend a Saturday afternoon was at the matinee of the neighborhood theater. ...
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The Often-Overlooked Benefits of Losing
In our society being called a loser is the ultimate indignity. You can almost hear someone say, "Call me a liar or a cheat, but please stop short of ever ...
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The Contrast of Thanksgiving
Introduction
It seems to me that appreciation is often related to contrasts. We are told the beauty of art is not just in color, but it's in contrast. ...
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