Introduction: We love heroic tales like those of King Arthur and his knights of the round table. While Arthur is known for pulling his famous sword Excalibur from the stone, it is the knights of the Round Table that get the most fanfare. We read of the exploits of some of these men like Sir Lancelot.…

Introduction: We are now back into the prime of football season and for us football junkies, we have been waiting for what seems like an eternity for this moment. I had the Georgia game on the TV yesterday with my tablet pulled up watching the Alabama game. At one point I was using the grid layout on…

Introduction: Have you ever taken a rock and thrown it into a pond and watched the ripples move from the place where the rock enters the, water outward towards the bank and then move back. When I was a kid, my grandfather had a lake house and we would float in the water in front of his house. We used…

Introduction: Over the last few weeks, we have been looking at Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians. We looked at who his prayer was addressed to as we looked at God’s riches in glory towards us. We also looked at the content of what his prayers were for the church. Tonight, we are going to look at the results…

Introduction: What does the life of a professional athlete look like? A lot of times we think about the fame and glory of these people. We see them perform well in their sport and give it up to natural talent. These athletes certainly have talent or they would never make it to the professional level.…

Introduction: Do you remember your first job? Maybe it was for your parents and you earned an allowance. Maybe you were working for someone else and they just told you to come help out and you would get paid? You may have labored and worked hard, and all the while you worked, you wondered how much you…

Introduction: Have you ever felt compelled to pray, but when you finally got alone with God and sat down, you closed your eyes, bowed your head, and in 3 seconds you ran out of things to say? For some reason, churches generally don’t teach new believers how to pray and study the Bible. We hear people…

Introduction: Ray Comfort Evangelistic method Expose with the Law then give grace 16 And behold, a man came up to him, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?” 17 And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life,…

Introduction: Lots of religious sects teach that we are to pray. They also teach us to whom we are to pray. In Islam, people are to pray to Allah through Muhammed or one of their dead prophets called Imams In Roman Catholicism, believers are encouraged to pray to the saints. There are different saints…

Introduction: Kids fighting and the words get more and more heated Eventually they start to posture and then fists are thrown Then the crowd jumps in and everyone is fighting before you know it This happens because our hearts are prone to sin. 41 Then all the men of Israel came to the king and said to…