POSERS IN THE PULPIT.  Religious rules produce posers.  Stop trying to be good and follow Jesus instead.  You’ll be much happier.

WHAT FRUSTRATES YOU ABOUT YOURSELF?  Embrace and accept your weaknesses and let God’s power work through them.  Experience godliness with contentment.

WHAT HAPPENS AT THE END?  Death means an end to the testing.  You get a new body.  You get to wear it forever and it will not wear out.

SIMPLE ADULTING.  Love transforms us from narcissism to maturity.

HOW TO DEAL WITH THE OPINIONATED:  Followers of Jesus need to learn to trust each other when it comes to making moral or lifestyle decisions.  If someone sees things differently than you, the law of love applies.  Actively accept those whose opinions are different or offensive to you.  Even the obnoxious ones.

7 WAYS TO DEFEAT A BAD MOOD:  We can avoid being dragged down to society’s level of immaturity and let God develop well-formed maturity in us.  The last sentence of Romans 12 in The Message says it all:  “Don’t let evil get the best of you; get the best of evil by doing good.”

WHAT'S NEXT, PAPA?  Since our “Papa”, our heavenly father loves us, we can expect good things in the future.  We deserve nothing, yet he blesses us with everything.  So, we can move from being angry pessimists to grateful optimists.  We can mature beyond being self-centered and entitled people to becoming grateful stewards of the gifts he has given us. 

THE GRANDMOTHERS OF JESUS.  God redeems and uses people regardless of their past lives.  He will redeem you and give your life purpose.

WHY CAN'T I BE GOOD?  This time of year, lots of folks think about whether they have been good or bad in the context of Santa’s list.  The fact is, that try as we may, we can’t be good.  So we must rely on Jesus to save us.  We don’t deserve this or anything else, it is his gift.

WHO TELLS YOU WHAT TO DO?  Jesus offers real freedom from the patterns and actions of sin.  Give him control of your life today to experience this real freedom.