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THE SIGN OF THE PROPHET JONAH MATTHEW 12:38-42 JESUS GAVE ALL SORTS OF SIGNS (Matthew 11:2-6; 12:13-15,22) GOD LOVES TO GIVE SIGNS TO PEOPLE. To encourage His leaders and to validate their call from God (Exodus 4:2-9; 16:38) To encourage God’s leaders when they need to test His will (Judges 6:17) To lead people to God (Deut. 4:34; 1 Kings 18:16-23; Isa. 7:14; Luke 2:12; 2:34; Gen. 1:14) To remind of God’s provision (Genesis 9:12-17; Joshua 4:6) T

TOUGH CHOICES MATTHEW 1:16, 18-25 1519 VIDEO FROM MATTHEW 1:18-25 Vertical Limit Illustration: Father, Son and Daughter climbing in Monument Valley. Daughter has laid in three anchors. Suddenly, two amateur climbers above them fall. Ropes entangled. Two amateurs swinging and wiggling. Dad calls for them to settle down, going to pull out anchors. Wiggling in panic. First anchor pulls free. Dad pleads for son to cut the rope holding dad and the two amateurs. Only way to sa

1480 “Attitude of Gratitude” Psalm 103 Drawing Near CD4 We continue our series on prayer and we look at thanksgiving today. One of the aspects of our prayer life out to be a grateful heart, an attitude of gratitude. And so we’re turning to Psalm 103 this morning to kind of take a look at David’s heart of thanksgiving. Why don’t we pray before we start. Lord, we are grateful that we are in a comfortable room right now, a comfortable setting and we have the freedom to worship a

THE ANOINTED AND THE ANTI-ANOINTED 1John 2:18-27 S2-1489 Open your Bibles to 1 John 2. John is dealing with antichrists in the church—probably somewhere in Asia Minor, probably in Ephesus. Nothing has changed much in this arena since the first century. ·SLIDE #1: Let me introduce you to Kim and Bethany identical Twins play flutes in our orchestra. Can you tell them apart? Not hardly. Could you imagine that one evening Beth scheduled a date with two different guys for the s

THE CHEAP COPY AND THE REAL THING S-1255 I ran into one of the women of our church in the checkout line at Costco the other day. “I can hardly wait until Sunday. When is all this going to happen? Who is the AntiChrist?” Of course the Bible does not answer either of those questions specifically. However, it does give all sorts of clues and promises that those who are wise will be able to read the signs and figure out what is happening near the end of the age. Today we come

Hebrews 11:31 S-859 READ HEBREWS 11:31 It is inevitable that we find our attention sharply arrested by this text. We have seen faith illustrated in remarkable ways by great personalities – Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, the national of Israel leaving Egypt and entering Canaan. Now quite suddenly, quite definitely, with almost startling brutality, “Rahab, the harlot.” Such an amazing statement demands consideration. Those who are most exalted are of n

OVERCOMING HANDICAPS 2 CORINTHIANS 12:1-10 S-1648 WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FLOWER? •SLIDE: Daisy? •SLIDE: Hibiscus? •SLIDE: Orchid? •SLIDE: Tulip? •SLIDE: How about a Rose? 7 in 10 Americans choose the Rose as their favorite. •SLIDE: Perhaps we like the rose because it is so beautiful. Perhaps we love it because deep down we recognize that life is more like the rose than any other flower. It is exquisitely beautiful; but when you pick it up, •SLIDE: You have to look out for the

Preach It Teach It Preach It Teach It Type and hit enter... Search Ask Roger Resources Who We Are GIVE SUBSCRIBE Copyright 2021 - All Right Reserved Sermon Starters Death and Our Eternal Dwellings by Roger Barrier September 6, 2025 Share 0 DEATH AND OUR ETERNAL DWELLINGS 2 CORINTHIANS 5:1-8 S-1299 Turn to 2 Corinthians 5. The last two weeks we saw in 2 Corinthians 4 how God delights to put Himself on display in our lives. In Paragraphs 1 and 3 by the words we speak. In para

Paradise Regained: The Garden of Heaven - Revelation 21-22 - Skip Heitzig Well, good morning to you and Happy Christmas. We're in this season and we're doing a series called Follow The Trees. Last week, we looked at one tree in the Garden of Eden. This week we'll look at the Tree of Life in the new Jerusalem in the future. And then Christmas Eve, we'll talk about the third tree, and that is the cross. A question or an issue about the book that Nate wrote, Christmas Under the

I really believe prayer works.  I have here some of my prayer notebooks from 1982, the year Bronwyn was born. DID YOU EVER NOTICE THAT JESUS PRAYED A LOT. He prayed early in the morning.      Mark 1:35: “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the   house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.” Jesus sometimes prayed all night      Luke 6:12: “Jesus went out into the hills to pray, and the spent the night praying.” Jesus prayed befor

AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM THE EVIL ONE MATTHEW 6:13 S-1540 What tempts you? The Seven Deadly Sins Perhaps? SLIDE #1: Ice Cream Sundae? Timed--Drugs and Alcohol (gluttony) SLIDE #2: Speeding (pride) SLIDE #3: Watching tv (laziness) SLIDE #4: Offering plate (greed) SLIDE #5: Hooters and Hot guy (lust) SLIDE #6: Two people fighting (anger) SLIDE #7: New car; house (envy) Things I put on screen are pretty innocuous. Some of you have things in mind that

Hebrews 12:1-3 S-1685 The book of Hebrews was written to some Christians who were suffering for their faith. They had not yet shed blood—but it was getting close. Don’t know who wrote the book. SLIDE #: KJV: The letter of Paul to the Hebrews… written by Timothy to the saints in Rome SLIDE #: Living Bible: “Love Paul” Comes to book of Hebrews, just says, “Good-Bye” Many think it was written by a woman named Priscilla of Aquila and Priscilla fame in the Book of Acts. She and he

Genesis chapter 4 is a story of two worshippers who happen to be brothers, Cain and Abel. And one's sacrifice, or offering, was accepted by God. But the other one crashed and burned. And that is Cain. Now Cain and Abel were similar, we discover. There were certain things that were identical in their lives. They both had the same parents. They both had the same opportunities. They both had the same access to God. They both came to worship God. But that's where their similarity

1096s Jesus and the Tortilla A few years ago the Chicago Tribune reported the story of a New Mexico woman who was frying TORTILLAS when she noticed that the skillet burns on one of her tortillas resembled the face of Jesus.  Excited, she showed it to her husband and neighbors, and they all agreed that there was a face etched on the tortilla and that it truly bore a resemblance to Jesus. So the woman went to her priest to have the tortilla blessed. She testified that the tort

WHAT TIME IS IT? Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 (Ecclesiastes #3) S-1403 ·SLIDE #1: How many of you are wearing a watch?  Or you have a pocket watch or clock of some kind with you this morning? How many did not bring a watch this morning?  What’s wrong with you?  You are in the minority. Any body here bring two watches? Why?  Because time is so important to us. Let’s play “Let’s Pretend.” Let’s pretend that your banker phoned you and said that an anonymous donor has decided to deposit 8

R1-1623 ●SLIDE # : Today I want to talk to you about what to do when the storms of life are raging. When your spouse says, “I want a divorce.” When the policeman says to you, “You are under arrest.” When you open the white envelope at work and the pink slip says, “You are no longer needed. Pick up your check and clean out your desk.” When the doctor says, “This is serious. This is life threatening.” When you open the bedroom door in the morning and your teenager is gone—and t

Enoch’s Faith; Or, How to Mezuzah Your Life Soul Structuring—Hebrews 11 Series #5 Hebrews 11:5 S-1505 Anthropologists have known for years that primitive peoples spend 30-40% of their time interacting with the supernatural world:  preparing and performing rituals, dances, and ceremonies. It doesn’t matter how much time they needed to eek out a living or not, a significant portion of time was devoted to religious matters. They can tell how much free time a society had by the a

Abel Able, or Making a Good First And Lasting Impression On God Hebrews 11:4 Soul Structuring Arts—Hebrews 11 Series #4 1504 Hebrews 11 delineates the soul Structuring Lifestyle Arts that we use to craft a life that pleases the Creator, Designer, God of the Universe.  He has not left us in the dark about how He intends for us to live. In Hebrews 11:4 we start at the beginning of the spiritual quest.  Read Hebrews 11:4. Read Genesis 4:1-8. Cain versus Abel: The Right Way and W

Job 42:10-17 Job Series #16 S-1599 Explain Job series. All these painful days, now Job broken and friends restored because of mercy. READ JOB 42:10-17. Restored twofold. So – boils blown away. Gets health and home and finally gets family back. Prayer We were fascinated from childhood by the stories that seemed larger than life. They all began with the same four words:  “Once upon a time…” The time really didn’t matter. All referred to kings and queens, prices, might and fight

The Victorious Christian Life Part 1 Joshua 1:1-9 S-1570 Have you noticed the all too often disturbing difference between what the Bible says Christians are—and what they really are? Maybe you have sensed that in your life. I wonder if people ever see us and say, “I have the picture of a Christian in the Bible—but, you don’t look much like it”? Several years ago Julie and her hairdresser talked me into changing my hairstyle. Got a curly perm. At least I had enough hair to get