Audio mp3 Luke 10:25-37 Theme: When we encounter suffering or wrongdoing, we are to take charge by expressing faith through love, which involves giving of ourselves. Key words: Life, Law, Love, Low, Likewise Introduction: Certified as a personal trainer. You are taught to tell a client how to do a particular exercise. Show them how… Continue reading Living as disciples: take charge
Author: Ken Corder
“Our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor”
Audio mp3 Link to the Declaration of Independence The results of the polls are scary when Americans are asked what is the Declaration of Independence and to name three people who signed it. We are forgetting our past, and it is a shame. There was one little boy in the teacher’s class who really struggled… Continue reading “Our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor”
Not my demons
Audio mp3 Luke 8:26-31 Text: 8:26 Then they arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. 8:27 As he stepped out on land, a man of the city who had demons met him. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he did not live in a house but in… Continue reading Not my demons
A Hopeful Man
Audio mp3 Romans 5:1-5 Introduction: Dads like to talk a lot about things that build character. For example, I heard this one…“Yesterday I was washing the car with my son. Gee, dad, he said, can’t we just use a sponge. No, son, I said, this builds character.” In the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes,… Continue reading A Hopeful Man
Those who are led by the Spirit
Audio mp3 Romans 8:14-17 Introduction: Pentecost is the annual Christian festival commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples of Jesus after his ascension from earth to heaven on Ascension Day. It always falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter. Pentecost means “fiftieth day”, as it is celebrated on Pentecost Sunday, the 50th… Continue reading Those who are led by the Spirit
Take Heart! I Have Overcome the World
Audio Mp3 John 16:20-24, 31-33 Introduction: Ticket sales for movie theaters have been on a steady decline for many years now. People are just not going to theaters to be inspired anymore as they did in the silver screen days of Carey Grant and Carol Lombard, before cable TV and Netflix came along. There is… Continue reading Take Heart! I Have Overcome the World
You’ve Got a Friend
Audio Mp3 John 14:23-29 Someone asked a great man the secret of his success. He answered: “I had a friend.” All of us can name a friend, maybe more than one, who sometime over the course of your life made a difference, someone who helped you get through a difficult time, someone who gave… Continue reading You’ve Got a Friend
The Original Selfies: Self-Culture
Audio mp3 Philippians 4:8-9 I begin by relating my experience at Nature’s Catch, when close to a million dead fish died and the clean up that followed, which involved me, a shovel and rubber waders. You have a lot of time to think when you are shoveling dead, stinking fish into the back of… Continue reading The Original Selfies: Self-Culture
Dear mothers, stay near the cross
Audio MP3 John 19:25-27 Text: John 19:25-27 25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” 27 and to… Continue reading Dear mothers, stay near the cross
The Original Selfies Series: Self-Responsibility
Audio MP3 Jeremiah 17:7-8; John 5:1-10, 14 Text: Jeremiah 17:7 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. 8 They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are… Continue reading The Original Selfies Series: Self-Responsibility