Sermons tagged #Boy

Pastor Michael Willard opens a series in the Gospel according to Luke. In the first message from Luke 2:41-52, we see Jesus demonstrate His love for God by prioritizing His relationship and commitment. Listen and be challenged.

Because God has made each person in his image to live for his glory as male or female, we must teach our children the beauty of the binary and equip them to receive this good gift and live it out with compassion and joy for his glory in the face of the increasing moral confusion of our world. Here are some steps we can take to teach our kids to love God's good design and protect them from the harmful confusion of gender ideology.

God's Plan and Purposes for Marriage - Message 18 - The Children's Role: Growing in Wisdom and Stature - Luke 2:52; Prov. 2:1-9. As parents train their children the goal is for the child to be growing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men. What is it to grow in wisdom? And how can we lead our children in a life that honors God and teaches them to love Him with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength?

To determine correct marital and thus gender relations, we must go back to the beginning and see God's determined design of mankind being male and female made to join in marriage and produce children. Denial of Sex Distinctions is Devolution.

We have this amazing blessing give to us by God in His word. It is "the word of life". A fountain of life. It delivers us from "the snares of death". But we must remain humble and never forget that the wisdom we hold is not ours and did not originate in us, but is the wisdom of God. He alone deserves any credit or glory. https://bbfohio.com

Placing It In The Right Hands Join me as we look at the feeding of the 5,000 from Matthew's perspective. Remember this: We Borrow Everything 
I love this insight from Jeremiah... take a moment and ponder the follow truth. 
"O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walks to direct his own steps..." (Jeremiah 10:23) 
Now, if that doesn't explain us all.
 Say it with me? EVERYONE, yes, EVERYONE is INFLUENCED by someone or something... NONE OF US are as independent in our thinking as we thought. NO ONE is an INDEPENDENT thinker that walks to the beat of his own drum. Someone or something is influencing you... and their influence didn't start today. You've learned and cultivated what they showed to fit into your own life. And it's in your (our) best interest to know who or what it is. Jeremiah realized he had been mislead and he's now confessing and asking the Lord to direct his steps away and out of the wrong influence. 
We're all living off of "Borrowed Bread" and like the five loaves and two fish, we don't need much to make a big difference... you'll just need Jesus to make it happen. 
It just needs to be: – Edible – Bless•able – Breakable – Shareable 
You don't need MUCH to make a BIG difference in someone's day. Especially, when the little you do have... is now in Jesus' hands. Little is much when God is in it... even when what you have is borrowed bread (Mark 6 ; Matthew 14 ; John 6). 
Never underestimate what Jesus can do with something, even something, as little as a sack lunch, that might be enough to feed you and a neighbor, but NEVER a multitude. Like this treat one of my brethren shared with honey and I. This meal is probably l

Sermon preached by Harry Fujiwara on Luke 2:40-52

People are always excited to show off their new baby, and for the most part people are decent enough to be excited for them. Most people would say, who doesn't like babies? There are those though that do not and one baby boy in particular was really not liked. Jesus' earthly life certainly was one of division, even as a newborn people were not happy with Him.

Judges 13 -- A boy named 'Sunny' The birth of Samson signals the coming of the next Judge of Israel

LUCAS 2: 22-52 2 ENCUENTROS CON JESÚS ... Un encuentro con Él cuando era un bebé (vv. 22-40) Un encuentro con Él cuando era niño (vv. 41-52) Verdad para recordar: La singularidad de Jesucristo exige una respuesta que nos lleve a ser sus testigos.

The feeding of the 5000 was an opportunity to test the faith of one of the disciples. Philip was chosen by Jesus to be tested, and Andrew was looking on as they were challenged to trust the Lord to supply the daily bread of a multitude of hungry souls. This proved to be a teaching moment that would cause a little boy to give up his lunch that everyone could share a meal of God's blessing.

Samuel was well prayed for and he became a mighty man of prayer.

Covered a wide range of topics today. Started off with Tim Keller's tweets regarding voting and abortion, then moved into Anthony Bradley's assertion that the Puritans would be alt-right racists in 2020. Talked a little about the CDC's promoting critical race theory, and then read an article by a "former Christian" feeding into the panic from HuffPo. Finished off (starting at 55 minutes into the program) with a discussion of New Testament and Qur'anic textual criticism in response to an article by Bassam Zawadi. 90 minutes total. No programs next week, as Rich and I will both be out of town the entire week, and even on the one day when he would be back, I will be stuck with an access speed of about 2400 baud!