I call this a homily because I think of sermons as longer and homilies as shorter than normal, well this is a 5-7 min. sermon and It was fun to give, and so I give it to you. I hope it can bring you closer to Christ, and if nothing else just make you think a little bit. Hope yall have a great week and God bless yall!
"Do You Want to Get Healed?" (<--Sermon from today that I preached) (Remember that you need to Download Adobe Reader if you want to read the sermon.)
Thank you all and God bless yall!
(The link works now! Thank you Aunt Harryette!)
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Tried to read your homily by clicking on the link in your blog, but got the message that it had been deleted.
check it out.--Aunt Harryette
Thank you Aunt Harryette! The link is fixed now, I had to change the file name for some reason, but it should be working now! Love you!
Good sermon, D.G.
Amazing how Jesua always asked those he healed to do something that showed their faith "Get up and walk" etc.
If he had just sat there saying, but I can't, I haven't been in the water, he might never have felt that grace from God. But he believed and guess what, it worked!
Love you guys--Aunt Harryette
Liked the sermon, something that we should reflect on daily.
One interesting note, (politics aside), It is probably the first time that 3 of the 4 major players in the presidential race are Methodist. Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney and Mr. Edwards are all Methodist. Kind of amazing.
Yeah tells you how much the Methodist church has to go, heh...nah, j/k, yeah I thought about that the other day, it is interesting, and scary if your Methodist, heh....
A good friend of miine who is a Methodist church planter in Albq. told me he favorite quote:
"Lord save us from the church." heh. true and very sad statement, sadly we as Christians have allowed more of our sinful nature through than our Gofdly nature. In most cases I agree that the church is the greatest cause of people dislikeing Christianity....and the greatest place to experience love and grace. Weird man, just weird.
D.G., I really appreciated your sermon on Do You Want to be Healed. I really feel that those of with problems that we oursevles cannot seem to correct have it exactly right. We can't. Only God can when we truly ask him" I truly want you, God, to heal me because I know I can't and really stay well. That is why temporary walks with Christ and only sometimes seeking for him instead of all along making a deeper and deeper committment to him and to his church are the real way we can stay healed.
YIKES!!!!!!!!!!! Substance abuse is not an affliction. It is a choice. I hope you didn't mean alcoholism or drug addiction (i.e. chemical dependency)which are, of course, agonizing illnesses for which, by definition, the individual no longer has choice. Believe me no dependent person enjoys his/her dependency and the tragic consequences (symptoms)that ultimately ensue. ...Jesus never blamed a victim!
Mr. Natural
P.S. giving you the benifit of the doubt and considering your disclaimer...the Holy Spirit may have inspired you to leave this judgemental inaccuracy out of your spoken revelation! If that is the case...never mind! ;o)
Wow Mr. Natural:
Thanks for the insight that I did not have previous! I have not thought about it in the way you read the sermon..and as a matter of fact after I re-read the very short sermon I was getting to the point that in some cases the problem is the choice of te individual...I am not generalizing all cases are this way...and te point of the sermon is to tak about the heart issues. I beleive Jesus knows the heart behind any person and thier problems...and He would be bale t challenge them or find them help...but the purpose of te sermon is to cover the fact that they have to desire and want to be healed. jess will not cure someone or releve them of a choice or non-choice just for giggles...he desires to help those who desire a relationship with him. This person probably dd not choose to have te illness for 38years...just like your understanding of illness, but he did desire to be heald of it, spoke to Christ of his desire to be healed and Christ did the healing. So, i think we are saying the same thing...heh heh....I hope I have explained myself clearly...but please keep the discussion going if I have not. Than you so much for reading and commenting on my blog! I can not tellyou thank you enough! God bless ya!
Great sermon D.G. It definitely made me think!
Thanks Brad! Man..it sure is good to hear from you! love ya man! Take care! and keep on peeking in touch! Thanks for visiting te blog, heh
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