During the Pastoral Prayer Sunday Soundbyte

Polls reveal that many Americans are worried about the swine flu. In Scripture, Lord, You tell us that instead of worrying, we should come to You with our requests. So even as a pastor, I ask You to carefully watch over all our schoolchildren. Be gracious to them and protect them. Keep them well. Thank You for the many angels you have assigned to our specific congregation. In fact, Lord, please protect all our people in regard to this flu situation, and I thank You in Jesus’ name.

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Sermon Ideas from David Mains

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How to Stand Up to Temptation – Sermon Ideas

You are preaching a topical sermon about temptation, and your text is 1 Corinthians 10:13. Your church sermon thrust is as follows: “Because you know that God will not let you be tempted beyond what you can handle, stand up under it!” These words are practically taken right out of the passage.

So your subject is something like “Tough Repeat Temptations.” The response being called for is that people will stand up to them.

It’s a great text. The subject is relevant, and it’s hard to miss the response called for in God’s Word. So how effective will your Sunday sermons be? It depends on the practicality of your “how to’s.”

Christians know they shouldn’t yield to troublesome temptations. Even so, many, including some who know this verse by heart, still do … again and again. The simple truth is that they don’t know how to stand up under it! So—do you know what to tell them?

What specifically did you do in your past to know victory over an attractive devilish lure? What have been the experiences of some of your church leaders? What past or present victory secrets do they have to share? Here’s where input from various members of the church body can be extremely helpful. Call them on the phone or e-mail them asking for their thoughts.

After coming up with a number of suggestions, narrow your “how to’s” down to the three or four best. Share these in your bible sermon, and I believe you will preach a real winner!

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Before the Offering Sunday Soundbyte

A South Carolina retiree recently won the $259.9-million Powerball Jackpot. If you made $50,000 a year, it would take you 5,198 years to earn that much money. That’s like working from the time of Abraham.

If that Powerball winner wanted to pay off this year’s $1.6-trillion federal budget deficit, he would have to win the same jackpot 6,156 times in a row … or you would have to work 5,198 x 6,156 … about 32 million years. Goodness!

(PAUSE) Let’s see, a tithe on those earnings would be 10% of $1.6 trillion = $160 billion! I don’t think our church could spend that much money, at least not right away!

Let’s get back to reality and prepare for this morning’s offering. Shall we pray…

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A Soundbye for Before Your Scripture Reading

In Quentin Tarantino’s new Holocaust film, history is rewritten as Jews terrorize Nazi soldiers and even Hitler himself.

Would you go to a movie where the early Christians threw Roman soldiers to the lions? Would you say, “That’s not bad for a change”?

The truth is, the tables will be turned when Jesus returns to reign. Listen to Revelation 19:11-21:

“I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. ‘He will rule them with an iron scepter.’ He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:
 
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
 
“And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, ‘Come, gather together for the great supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great.’
 
“Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army. But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. The rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.”

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