No one can deliver freedom like Jesus Christ! If this is true, then why are so many of us some of the most uptight people you could ever meet? Worried about what we eat and drink. Worried about what we listen to. Worried about who we associate with and what we do!

No one can deliver freedom like Jesus Christ! If this is true, then why are so many of us some of the most uptight people you could ever meet? Worried about what we eat and drink. Worried about what we listen to. Worried about who we associate with and what we do!

A preacher who steals money from his church or hypocritically sells religious teaching for a quick buck robs far more than the congregation he serves.The Apostle Paul faced the con artists and the disillusioned congregations back in the first century, but he didn’t quit the ministry because of the lack of funds.

Just imagine inviting Jesus to spend the day with you, but as the you start to get involved in daily activities it is very apparent that there is a lot of stuff in the routine that you wouldn’t be comfortable having Jesus join you in. For example, who wants Jesus looking over your shoulder as you laugh at Jimmy Kimmel Live or salivate over a racy novel? Finally some friends invite you to come out that night and really party. As you get ready for the big night on the town and proceed out the door, Jesus follows even though you uninvited him. Finally in exasperation, you nail the Savior to the cross again to keep him out of your life. Powerful truth--but we need to be sure that we know what the biblical Christ is actual like, what he likes to do and what he doesn’'t like to do.

Just imagine inviting Jesus to spend the day with you, but as the you start to get involved in daily activities it is very apparent that there is a lot of stuff in the routine that you wouldn’t be comfortable having Jesus join you in. As you get ready for the big night on the town and proceed out the door, Jesus follows even though you uninvited him. Finally in exasperation, you nail the Savior to the cross again to keep him out of your life. Powerful truth--but we need to be sure that we know what the biblical Christ is actual like, what he likes to do and what he doesn't like to do.

No one else made the magic happen when in the midst of a night club, sitting on a barroom stool, Frank Sinatra began to croon “I did it my way!” He has done it all and he did it his way. But is this stress upon getting your way the essence of human existence? From the millions who applaud you would gather the case is closed. But there was another man who said that if you want to find your life, you are going to have to be willing to lose it; that if you live for yourself you will lose yourself, but if you lose yourself in caring for others, you will discover to your surprise that you have discovered it all.

Get at the facts! Improve your investigative procedures! Stretch your mind! Expand your horizons. If you have a Ph.D. behind your name in our society it makes you an expert, and people are supposed to listen to you. Few would argue that education is not a good thing, but did you know that there is a great danger in education?

There has never been a church with more available Bibles, more effective teachers, more beautiful and efficient worship centers, and more financial resources. Looking at the externals you would expect this church to have the most healthy spiritual people and to exert a powerful influence for God in their society. But for the most part the secular society views the church as angry, radical dissidents who view anyone who disagrees with them as an enemy. Where have we missed the path? What’s wrong with the evangelical church in America?

How does a single person know whether they should marry? If a life partner is taken away, what does God say about how the remaining partner needs to live out their days? Since the world is in such a mess, wouldn’t it be better not to marry and bear children? These are questions Christ followers are asking today and they were asking these same kinds of questions in the first century. We can be thankful because it means we can allow the Apostle Paul to respond to the issue of “to marry or not to marry.”

Change—it’s the name of the game. In the midst of all these changes we need to ask ourselves, “Why?” Why am I moving across the country to get that big promotion? Why am I moving into the bigger house with the gigantic payments? Why am I so restless? For the next few minutes call time out, and let’s explore together whether we might be going down a road we don’t want to travel toward a destination we don’t want to arrive at.