Answers For Your Toughest Critic
July 26, 2010 by Aric · Leave a Comment
Real answers come from the real life struggles of faith. As your faith grows it will inevitably be challenged by circumstances, crises, and ultimately by God who is seeking to make your faith real and strong and deep. The challenge is to see through the crisis to the end result, a strong faith.
The Advocate
July 19, 2010 by Aric · Leave a Comment
With the help of the Holy Spirit, and our dependence upon Him, we can walk through any situation as we reaching out to the lost. Our complete surrender of our life for the purpose of the Kingdom is what is necessary if we are to do the work of the King. We continued to look at our simple diagram of reaching out to the lost children of God. We took a closer look at the role of the Holy Spirit in this process.
“What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do”
July 13, 2010 by Aric · Leave a Comment
Understanding the providence of God and the will of God while dealing with the silence of God.
Will You Be To Busy For God This Summer?
June 21, 2010 by Aric · Leave a Comment
Will you be to busy for God this summer? Seriously, are your commitments for “fun-in-the-sun” this summer going to over-shadow the things of God. You know what; that’s a question for me as well! I would ask those prayer warriors out there to pray for me and my family in the traveling that we’ll be doing to make it a priority to let God into our weeks, days, and hours of fun. It is so vital that we don’t get “swamped” with things that God get’s bumped out of our way. You may ask, “How could I possibly bump God out of my way?” Do you normally meet with God’s people when on vacation? If not, do you take time for family devotions and communion? I have been guilty of this with my family… decreasing my priorities with God! Let’s call it for what it is; it’s a matter of priorities. I think if we’re honest with ourselves we’ll find that in this world of fast paced living that many times we put God on the back burner.
May we have an awesome, fun-filled, spirit-filled summer; one that glorifies God in every aspect of our life.
“He Can Reach Through Anything”
June 21, 2010 by Aric · Leave a Comment
The Gospel is simple. But why is it so hard for us to reach out to others? Why is it so hard to extend the love of God to others? Listen to learn more about how Christians are the problem.
“The Moments He Has Made You For”
June 14, 2010 by Aric · Leave a Comment
Have you ever noticed that there are times in our lives when God directs us into situations that are unfamiliar, stress-filled, and sometimes difficult circumstances? . . . And then, He requires that we deal with these difficulties, situations, or circumstances that seem to not only be out of our control, but also beyond our abilities! . . . They jar us out of our comfortable ruts and put us on a bumpy, rough road. We feel unprepared, inadequate, overwhelmed, outnumbered, and frightened.
What we don’t know is that God has been preparing us all our lives for these very moments. We are better prepared, better equipped, than we had imagined. Every moment of our walk with God in the past has been in preparation of this day, this hour, this very moment. And, if it’s any comfort, we are not the first to face those overwhelming circumstances. Esther before us was put into such a situation, and she had no more from God than we do. And yet, in spite of God’s “silence,” Esther found that she was prepared.
“Truth and Its Consequences”
June 8, 2010 by Aric · Leave a Comment
While God is sovereign, He has also given us the responsibility of our choices. We freely choose to live by God’s principles or not, and the results are as certain as the law of gravity. Knowing the course of your life is set by your choices, choose wisely.
“The Gospel 101″
June 1, 2010 by Aric · Leave a Comment
God made sure that the essence of the Christian message was so straightforward and clearly spelled out that even a child can understand it.
“The Sound of Silence”
May 17, 2010 by Aric · Leave a Comment
The value of the book of Esther is that it is a book of crisis–something we can relate to–and it provides the answer to what God is doing when He chooses to remain “silent.” From beginning to end the purpose of the book is to demonstrate the providential care of God for His people. With no mention of God and no overt miracles, we discover from Esther the way God normally and ordinarily works in our lives to provide for us–even and especially in the midst of crisis. This sermon introduces this new series on the providence of God.
“Thinking Straight in a Crooked World”
May 4, 2010 by Aric · Leave a Comment
Are you controlled more by Christ or by culture? I think you would be surprised by the real answer to that. The challenge is to live consistently what we believe, living consistently out of a Christian worldview.