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Commonplace Monday

  "Why are you preaching this sermon? That obvious question draws many inadequate answers. [...] No matter how brilliant or biblical a sermon is, without definite purpose it will not be worth preaching." Haddon Robinson, Biblical Preaching, pg 107

A Dangerous Chase

A man went out into the world twas greatness that he hoped to find. But as life’s pressures ‘round him swirled, those dreams crumbled in his mind. Dejected by the hand life dealt, our friend’s life began to waver; because great failure he had felt, he trusted drugs to be his savior. “Just numb it all,” he told himself, as the needle slipped inside his vein. He felt he fought the world itself; that all of life was naught but pain. He lost both family and health while success was chief endeavor; but loss of job meant loss of wealth, he was left without all earthly treasure. He passed out one night beside the road, not to awake again on earth. Could one have his end foretold? What would that warning have been worth? The tragic end of this man’s life should cause each one to pause. What do I value in this life? What has been my greatest cause? Will I come to the end and find that all I've lived for is but naught? To what has been my heart inclined? What...

Vision

What I am about to say applies in large part to women as well, but I want to address men. Most men have a vision for their life that is far too small. Perhaps you are among them. Many of you may have no vision for your life at all. I want to get at what lies behind that. There obviously can be many reasons for not having a driving vision for your life, but what I want to propose is that many of you simply need to wake up to the reality that you think far too little of God, and consequently, you expect far too little of what He can do in you and through you. Perhaps you hope to be a nice person. Perhaps you hope to raise a nice family. Perhaps you hope to be a good worker. Perhaps you hope to go to heaven when you die. These are all nice things. But it that is all you expect out of life, something is missing. In the book of Ecclesiastes chapter seven, Solomon says this: "A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better ...

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