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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake If the world calls you a senior, listen to this, says Pastor Flemons. He shared a reading that demonstrates the Bible version of retirement in the story of Caleb. The following two paragraphs are excerpts. “Before the distribution of the land had been entered upon, Caleb, accompanied by the heads of …
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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Spend time with God in prayer and fasting. If you need more faith, you need to spend more time in communion with God. Moses was a man of faith, because he spent time with God. Moses is called the meekest man who ever lived. We need to understand, however, that true …
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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake We can learn many lessons from the story of Joseph. Some will be shared in this two-part reading series. Joseph’s father favored him, spoiled him, and this infuriated his brothers, who sold him into slavery. “But, in the providence of God, even this experience was to be a blessing to him. …
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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake God has a way that His will is to be performed. Jacob’s story teaches the world the importance of allowing God’s will to be done His way in our lives. Jacob’s story teaches us that we should never try to do God’s will our way. Jacob practiced deception to force God’s …
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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake The marriages of Isaac and Lot each tell a story to the world in every succeeding generation. Lot’s wife was unconverted, says Pastor Flemons. She was the reason Lot was still in Sodom in the first place. But Rebekah moved from the directions of God. “The wife of Lot was a …
Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Sometimes we have to leave our comfort zone to be obedient to God. That is what Abraham did. “There was given to Abraham the promise, especially dear to the people of that age, of a numerous posterity and of national greatness: ‘I will make of thee a great nation, and I …
Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Using history as the basis for his talk, Pastor Flemons quoted Wikipedia. “‘Never was so much owed by so many to so few‘.” [It] was a wartime speech made by the British prime minister Winston Churchill on 20 August 1940. The name stems from the specific line in the speech, Never in the field …
Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Any sin will keep you out of the kingdom, says Pastor Flemons. It is an all-sin or no-sin situation with God. Still, there are degrees of sinning. And some sins–not all–are called abominations. In fact, there are seven sins that God really hates, according to Proverbs 6:16 – 19: “These six …
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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake We are all affected when preachers are scared of the people, says Pastor Flemons. When for money and popularity preachers speak smooth lies to the people, rather than tell them the truth, it emboldens people to freely show selfishness. They serve themselves. When outsiders see how so-called Christians treat each other, …
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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake We are not going to heaven, unless we are just like God, says Pastor Flemons. “We need to see how important it is to live for Jesus, to tell the truth, to say it in the right spirit–humbly–and to make sure that our characters are in line with the character of …
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