In Collins dictionary, pious is defined as ‘reverence and love for God marked by pretended or mistaken devotion’.
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Sermon 74 – PIOUS
Sermon 69 – NOBODY KNOWS WHO THEY REALLY ARE
Nobody knows they’re proud, and until you see it you can’t repent of your pride. And if you can’t repent of your pride, you can’t be saved. The journey of life and the interaction with people, especially with one’s spouse and children and in-laws, is simply a journey of self-exposure, yet few ever see themselves. They live in the hurt of their feelings and analyse right and wrong from their hurt feelings and blame everyone else for their problems. Very few people ever stop to see that their reaction to their feelings is an exposure of their own pride. All they can see is the injustice done to them.
The pride of human nature inherently prefers to blame others instead of taking the blame. Jesus took the blame and until you do, you can’t walk the same walk.
Let’s look at this from a different direction …
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Sermon 68 – WHICH CAMP?
In 1 Samuel we recognise there were 3 distinct camps … the camp of Saul, the camp of David and the camp of the Philistines.
Clearly the camp of the Philistines is the camp of the heathen … those who don’t want to bend the knee to God.
But the defining line between the other two camps is blurry. Both these camps worship the same God and carry out the same ceremonies. They are both Israelite camps yet they are enemies. The same was true of Jesus and the Pharisees; they both worshipped the same God but they were enemies.
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Sermon 66 – EXERCISE FOR LIFE
If you don’t exercise you will atrophy. That is, your body will deteriorate and eventually die.
Exercise is stress. As babies we had to learn to stand and walk. If you don’t put yourself under that stress then you will never train the neural pathways from your brain to your muscles which are designed to make your muscles work, and your bones will never be strong enough to support your vertical weight. It’s not automatic, it has to be stressed. It’s a stress to get up and walk. Running is a stress on your body. Like a tree needs the wind to stress it so it can strengthen itself, so moderate exercise is necessary for your body to stay healthy. And exercise needs to be done 3 times per week for 20-30 minutes in order to at least maintain and hopefully improve your level of strength. Yet, if you exercise incorrectly you will hurt your body and even potentially break it, and also teach your nerve pathways the wrong information for your muscles.
The same thing is true for our spirits.
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Sermon 64 – I’M GOOD
Q. What is good?
Q. Do you think of yourself as good?
Q. What % of good are you?
Q. What % of good confirms you are a Christian?
Q. What % do you place on your fellowman thinking that you are good?
Q. Why are you trying to be good?
Q. Is good a measurement of salvation?
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Sermon 63 – HEARING GOD’S VOICE
You can’t do two things at the same time
Being a doctor I’ve included in my practice the study of applied kinesiology. This is the practical application of muscle nerve function. One thing I’ve noticed from the practical application of these studies is that you can’t effectively do two things at the same time. You can argue that it’s possible to watch TV and to read a book at the same time, but the truth is you have to shift your concentration from one to the other; you can’t do both at exactly the same time. You can argue that you can drive a car and talk on a mobile phone, but the fact is that you are far more likely to have an accident because your attention is split between two brain applications. I challenge you to Read the rest of this entry »
Sermon 61 – RESPONSIBILITY is a DIRTY WORD
When I was a young boy my older brother used to tease me incessantly. He’d run away from me on the way to school and leave me sitting in the gutter crying. He’d never let me play with his friends and he’d wrestle with me and pin my arms to the ground with his knees until I cried for mercy. He’d go out of his way to make sure
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Sermon 59 – WHICH GOD?
The Humanists and atheists argue that there is no God because no decent god would allow the suffering that happens across the face of the earth. But, that’s the argument of Read the rest of this entry »
Sermon 58 – UNDER ATTACK
Right at the beginning of the Word of God is the story of creation, and in Genesis 3 we read of the first interaction between Satan and mankind.
The strategy of Satan in the Garden of Eden is the same strategy he uses today to
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