MOTIVATE A burglar broke into a house one night. As the thief was stealing the valuables he heard a voice out of the darkness say, “Jesus is watching you.” The burglar was nerved but after a few moments of looking around and not seeing anything he continued his heist. Suddenly, just as before the voice…
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Are we Jonah?
Jonah heard God’s call but instead of obeying he rebelled. He tried to run 1000+ miles away from Nineveh, “away from the presence of the Lord” (1:3 twice; 1:10). He went down[1] to Joppa, found a ready ship and paid the fare to leave, going down into the ship to lay down to sleep. Talk…
LIVE 10: Marriage Matters (Exodus 20:14)
MOTIVATE Nathaniel Hawthorne tells the fictional story in 17th Century Boston, then a Puritan settlement, of a lady named Hester Prynne. She had committed a crime of passion with an adulterous affair resulting in a little child, to be named Pearl. Hester Prynne would be imprisoned for a time and then sentenced to wear a…
Live 10: Life Matters (Exodus 20:13)
Feb 3 2013_Exodus 20_13_Life Matters MOTIVATE In the last century, humanity has perfected the action of murder and was characterized by the newly coined word “mega-death”. o 3 individuals: Adolf Hitler (~20million), Joseph Stalin (~62million), Mao Zedong (~75million) account for well over 150million murders. This number exceeds half the population of today’s United States….