A lot is said about the local church you had officers responsible for ministry as well as the qualifications for those officers the local church men of appointed times and exercise discipline it regulated meetings collected and dispersed funds So Christianity is institutional in a good sense when its institutions are prophetically alive and instantly alert to the presence and power of the Holy Spirit Christianity is institutional in a bad sense when it simply absorbs the culture becomes part of the entrenched establishment and perpetuates itself for Stone glory but it doesn t have to be that way on the show we want to provide encouragement for pastors and their families at the holiday season our guests are Pastor James Collins and his wife Amanda. Dancer James Collins and his wife Amanda are with us we have done a couple of shows with Pastor Collins but we do want to do a special program and it s titled encouraged and for pastors and their wives at the holiday season I ve pastor and I
Rushton it was only when he confessed it to God that the pressure lifted and though the Lord was faithful to forgive there was still a cost today on love worth finding the High Cost of Low living and if you re a child of God and you feel crushed under your sin today listen carefully to pastor and author Adrian Rogers you ll find there s relief on the other side of repentance look in 2nd Samuel chapter 11 verse 27 as Adrian Rogers explains the high cost of low living now the 4 things I want you to see with me today as we look into this 1st of all I want you to see what I m going to call the tragic call of David sand how could a man like this fall into sand I mean a good man like this it. Was one of the dirtiest deeds ever done. Here Riah they had ties who would have died for David s honor. Now dies from David s hand. Could David be doing this I mean is this behave it. Has to someone who wrote the song was. The overstay comes to my mind right now be aware. Lest any of you be harmed in t
Cost of medical services assisted living or help their children with higher education how will negative interest rates affect their portfolios or will the stock market crash Christians literally rob God and sometimes their families over fear the future there s a growing mania for buffering ourselves against any possible future event but unless we depend on God will be like the man who built his house upon sand Jesus said the wise man built his house upon the rock Our faith must be rooted in our Rock Jesus Christ not in our material security otherwise fear will drive us in control us it will cause us anxiety and sleep loss unhealthy frugality marital stress bitterness and separation from God So I ask a simple question do you really trust God He promises to work all things together for good for those who love him and are called according to his purposes so no matter the size of your bank accounts you must trust God with it all how do you do it you release the past and believe that God h
How many of you know that one of the great things about being in the storm and knowing that God caused the storm is the realization that the one who caused it can shut it down too there s 2 places on the switch one says on and the other says off and he said control of both of them. And when they prayed into the Lord and cried out to him in their trouble he heard their prayer and he calmed the storm so that the waves are still I always think about this in connection with the stories in the New Testament about the Lord Jesus with his disciples the Lord I believe allowed things to happen in the lives of his disciples to teach them lessons they couldn t learn in any other way some lessons are not learned in the classroom Do you know that there are learned by experience as you go through things together do you remember the occasion when the disciples had gotten into the ship to go over to the other side and the Lord Jesus got in the ship with them and he crawled into the back of the boat a
Because I thought it was in Texas but go ahead good to hear from you by the way as this is this just in time that this we can yes yes it is good here but I want to thank you I want to thank you so much for coming to Phoenix as that s week and it was just a real pleasure to get to meet you and Dana and to hear you speak in person and bring my kids and he was just really great you know I was thinking today about the message you gave us tonight on disappointment with God and how he feels disappointed we need to examine what our expectations were. And I was thinking how there are so many choices in life that God gives us freedom in everything from where we go to school whom we marry where we live where we work friendships all of that and more there s a real overlap in the things God does directly in our lives in the things we in our limited knowledge choose for ourselves so my question is what about when a believer becomes disappointed with their own choices in an area. Do they lean on Ro