Ruling Your Spirit: Anger 2 October 2022 PM – Proverbs 25:28 – RuleSpirit22 – Scott Childs Introduction: Anger is the commonly justified sin. It was not my fault. I inherited a hot temper. Someone irritated me. Something displeased me. I wasn’t furious; I was just upset. It is just the way I am! Transition: This […]
Ruling Your Spirit: Thoughts 25 September 2022 PM – Proverbs 25:28 – RuleSpirit22 – Scott Childs Introduction: A preacher once wisely said, “If you think about something long enough, eventually, you will do it.” That ought to put fear in our hearts if our thoughts are not pleasing to God. Read Proverbs 25:28. If […]
Ruling Your Spirit: Tongue 4 September 2022 PM – Proverbs 25:28 – RuleSpirit22 – Scott Childs Introduction: Read Proverbs 25:28. If we do not learn to rule our spirits, we will have no defence against the devil. Our Christian lives will be weak and unfruitful. God has given each of us a spirit, soul and […]
Ruling Your Spirit: Desires 28 August 2022 PM – Proverbs 25:28 – RuleSpirit22 – Scott Childs Introduction: Read Proverbs 25:28. If we do not learn to rule our spirits, we will have no defence against the devil. Our Christian lives will be weak and unfruitful. God has given each of us a spirit, soul and […]
Respond Biblically not Emotionally 22 November 2020 AM – Proverbs 15.28 – Scott Childs Introduction: Fred was invited to a party that he knew would likely include things that may endanger his morals, health, and spiritual life, but he agreed to go to please his peers. Sue just received word that her mother has cancer. […]
Better Choice – Hermit 20 September 2020 PM – Proverbs 21:9 – BC20 – Scott Childs Introduction: Our text this evening is not alone in the book of Proverbs. Proverbs 25:24 is identical except for an added word “and”. Also, Proverbs 21:19 is very similar. Thus, we will consider all three of these verses together. […]
Ahab’s Last Straw Date: 29 April 2020 Text: 1 Kings 21:1-20 Key Lesson: God’s patience will eventually run out. Ahab’s Selfishness § Naboth had a vineyard in Jezreel (v.1). King Ahab wanted it and offered to buy it or to trade for it (v.2). This was a selfish demand. Naboth refused because of God’s law […]
Conquering Evil Thoughts 10 November 2019 PM – Genesis 6:5 – Thoughts – Scott Childs Introduction: There have been many battle strategies used by successful generals down through history. Though they varied in type, they all had one thing in common; they worked to conquer the enemy. Just before the flood in Genesis 6:5, we […]
Self-Control is Demanding 27 October 2019 PM – 1 Corinthians 9:25-27 – Temperance – Scott Childs Introduction: God tells us in James 3:7-8, “For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; […]
Self-Control is Supernatural 20 October 2019 PM – Galatians 5:22-23 – Temperance – Scott Childs Introduction: Last week, we began this brief series on self-control. We identified the fact that we all struggle with self-control in one area or another. Paul wrote, (1 Corinthians 9:25-27) “And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate […]