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Guidelines for marriage and singleness

Who is going to heaven?  Here are the points for my message today; Good people go to heaven.  Bad people go to hell.  There are no good people, only bad people.  Except Jesus is good.  

Paul was chastising believers in the Corinthian church for suing each other in civil court.

Who is the hero of the book of Ruth?  There are several people in the story who do heroic things, but the ultimate hero is God.

How could Ruth have the assurance that Boaz would redeem her?  In the same way that we are assured of our redemption in Christ.

The story of Ruth asking for redemption is a picture of all of the elements of true repentance; desire, obedience, love, and trust.

This is the part of the story of Ruth where a corner is turned out of a dark alley by the providence of God.

In this meassage Rith and Orpah come to the fork in the road.  One branch going to faith in God plus nothing, the other back to everything without God.

The story of Ruth is the story of Redemption in an Old Testament context.  It can be outlined as Chapter one; the need for Redemption, Chapter two; the Providing of Redemption, Chapter three; the Request for Redemption, and Chapter Four; the Accomplishment of Redemption.

This is the last of the messages on love and the third in the series on loving your enemies.

This is the second part of the "Love Your Enemies" message.

The command to love does not stop with parents, children, friends, or brothers and sisters in Christ.  It extends to our enemies.

This is the last set of things that we are to pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ.

We are to pray for brothers and sisters in Christ.

In this message we look further into what it means to love our brothers and sisters in Christ; we are to pray for each other, admonish each other, and restore each other. 

Loving brothers and sisters in Christ means bearing with their weaknesses, forgiving them when they repent, and speaking with grace.

Loving brothers and sisters in Christ means bearing with their weaknesses, forgiving them when they repent, and speaking with grace.

The next message in our series on love concerns loving your spouse.  Scripture has some explicit directions about this most intimate of relationships.

This is the first part of the message about loving your brothers and sisters in Christ.

The Bible commands that we love our neighbors, those next to us.  And your children are in that group of people that we are to love.  But what is the Biblical definition of loving your children? 

After loving God, loving your parents is of second most importance because they are your first neighbors and Scripture says we are to "love our neighbors as ourselves."

The first commandment for every believer is to love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

This is the last of 3 sermons over the life of Samson.  He is an example of bondage to sin.

This second sermon about Samson further demonstrates him to be a perfect illustration of spiritual bondage.  

Today, we look at the life of Samson, as an example of bondage to sin.  He came into the world with such great potential, but because he followed his flesh throughout his life, his end is tragic.