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Pastor Dan's Blog contains messages from a new contemporary church in St Louis called Full Life Community Church. The messages are intensely practical applications of the timeless truths of the Bible to 21st century living. I believe that God's truth is powerful enough to change lives, families and cities. I trust that this blog will give you a glimpse of the truth about what's important in life. Primary Format : Christian Language : English Also Listed as: City : St Louis State/Province : MO Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Pastor Dan's Blog Podcasts Methings.com listings of Pastor Dan's Blog Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

What Is Faith? What is faith? The dictionary defines faith as “Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, an idea, or a thing.” Faith is about believing in someone or something. People believe in all sorts of things. You got up believing that the sun would get up too. You ate some breakfast cereal, made from [...] Related posts:Faith That Wins Is God Real? Grow Into A Woman Of Faith Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overcoming Your Temptations Everyone has temptations, Jesus had temptations, I have temptations, you have temptations. Temptations are part of life, you can’t get away from them. Temptations come in all sorts of sizes and flavors. The traditional seven deadly sins are: pride, envy, anger, laziness, greed, gluttony and lust. Those cover a lot of our temptations. Temptations come at us in an instant. [...] Related posts:The Purpose of Temptation Overcoming Opposition When Following Jesus Overcoming Failure ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Purpose of Temptation God uses a number of tools to help each person grow during their lives. God has a plan and purpose for your life. The only way that you’re going to accomplish that purpose is for you to continue to grow. Growth is a lifelong process. It takes work, you’ve got to stick with it, but the results [...] Related posts:Overcoming Your Temptations Don’t Waste Your Troubles You Were Created For Purpose Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don’t Waste Your Troubles God wants you to grow in every dimension of your life and growth involves change. Growth and change are good things, they will make your life better. However we tend to resist change. We don’t want to change, we just want our circumstances to change. God doesn’t work that way. He’s more interested in you changing than your [...] Related posts:Discovering The Growth Manual The Point of Life The Joy Of Thanksgiving Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Point of Life I believe that the event Easter celebrates is the most important event in world history. On Easter we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. If the resurrection had not occurred, we would not be meeting here today. Nor would we remember Jesus Christ or have a New Testament. Without the resurrection, life would be incredibly more [...] Related posts:The Encouragement Of Easter Living With Resurrection Power Why The Resurrection Matters Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trusting God’s Power We’ve been looking at the ancient book of Esther as a model for how we should live for God in the world that God has put us into. Our world in the 21st century AD is a dark world, but so was the world of the Persian empire that Esther found herself in the 5th century [...] Related posts:Designed To Shine Finding Courage To Shine Understanding the Darkness Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Courage To Shine As believers, as followers of Jesus Christ, our purpose in life is to push back the darkness around us by allowing God’s light to shine through us. The brighter you shine for God, the more power God gives you so you can shine even more brightly. The problem is that some people who call themselves believers aren’t [...] Related posts:Finding Courage To Serve God Finding Courage In Crisis Designed To Shine Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Understanding the Darkness The Bible speaks of two kingdoms, the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light. Every person is in one of those kingdoms or the other. No one can straddle the fence. Those two kingdoms are in conflict. There is a battle raging between these two kingdoms that has gone on since man was created. What does that [...] Related posts:Understanding The Dark Side Designed To Shine Experience Supernatural Provision Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Designed To Shine Light is needed in dark places and the world today is a dark place. The Bible teaches that there are two kingdoms in conflict, the kingdom of light, God’s Kingdom and the kingdom of darkness, Satan’s kingdom. The results of the kingdom of darkness are violence, death, sickness and sin of all kinds. We see the kingdom of [...] Related posts:Designed For A Purpose Understanding The Dark Side Finding Courage To Serve God Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Communication Essentials God has created us to relate to other people. Relationships bring the greatest joys and the deepest sorrows in life. As believers, God wants to help us learn to develop and grow great relationships. Great does not mean perfect. Perfect relationships are not possible. Why? James 3:2a (NIV) We all stumble in many ways. I stumble in many ways. You [...] Related posts:Why Relationships Are Important The Importance of Unity The Purpose Of Temptation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Relationship Damage Control Currently we’re in a message series called “Growing Great Relationships.” Last week, we talked about “Loving from the Heart.” This week, I want to tackle a somewhat more difficult topic. What do we do when a relationship has problems? When a relationship becomes damaged? When someone we care about hurts us? Some people hold a grudge and become bitter. Others [...] Related posts:Forgiving When It’s Hard What To Do When You Are Hurt Releasing God’s Power Of Forgiv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Loving From The Heart Valentine’s Day is all about love. And what better place to be on Valentine’s Day then worshipping the inventor of love, God Himself. As we’ll see, God both invented love and He best exemplifies love. So maybe God has something of importance to teach us about love on this Valentine’s Day 2010. What was your first experience with [...] Related posts:Learning To Love Why Is Love So Hard To Find And Keep? What Does Love Look Like? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Relationships Are Important Today we begin a new message series called “Growing Great Relationships.” Each of us has a variety of relationships with other people in our lives. Each of us has casual acquaintances. People we know a little bit about, but not too much. With things like Facebook growing in popularity, people have more and more of these casual [...] Related posts:Meaningful Relationships How To Restore Broken Relationships How To Get Close To God Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Courageous Influence Medical science has made many advances in recent years. Largely because of those advances, the average life span has steadily increased and now stands at 78. People working in the medical field have found cures for many diseases and influenced the world for good. It would be unthinkable for a medical researcher to find a cure for a [...] Related posts:Why Jesus’ Death Matters Beginning A Relationship With God How To Be Influential Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Compassionate Service Currently we’re in a message series called “Five Foundations for Life.” As we start out the new year of 2010, it’s important to look at these five basic purposes that God has for every believer. These past three Sundays, we’ve looked at Powerful Prayer, Meaningful Relationships and Spiritual Growth through God’s Word. Powerful prayer had to do with [...] Related posts:Why Am I Here? Putting Your Abilities To Work Growing Together In A Life Group Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spiritual Growth Today, we’re going to look at the topic of “Spiritual Growth”. This is the third foundation stone that we’re looking at in our message series “Five Foundations for Life.” What is spiritual growth all about? When a person becomes a new believer, whether you are 5 or 95, you begin as a spiritual infant. God’s purpose for every believer [...] Related posts:How You Can Grow Discovering The Growth Manual Investing In Growth For Life Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meaningful Relationships To start off 2010, we are in a message series called “Five Foundations for Life.” In this series, we’re looking at the five foundations for the Christian life that the Bible teaches. These foundations are essential for a growing and successful life as a follower of Jesus. I know that I need to be reminded from time to [...] Related posts:Why Relationships Are Important How To Restore Broken Relationships Restoring Damaged Relationships Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Powerful Prayer The New Year is a great time to look back on 2009 and look forward to 2010. If you look at the news headlines, they tend to look back on the economic difficulties of 2009 and say that the outlook for 2010 will be brighter. Maybe, maybe not. Although finances are important, they are not the most [...] Related posts:The Mystery of Unanswered Prayer – Part 1 Meaningful Relationships Waiting on a Big God Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesus Dispels Fear Christmas is the time of year we remember when God came to this earth as a baby boy named Jesus. We send all those Christmas cards with pictures of Jesus in the manger. Underneath our Christmas trees are Nativity sets with baby Jesus next to the donkeys and sheep. There’s nothing wrong with that, as that’s what [...] Related posts:Fear of Disaster Jesus Brings Hope Fear of Death Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesus Dispels Fear Christmas is the time of year we remember when God came to this earth as a baby boy named Jesus. We send all those Christmas cards with pictures of Jesus in the manger. Underneath our Christmas trees are Nativity sets with baby Jesus next to the donkeys and sheep. There’s nothing wrong with that, as that’s what [...] Related posts:Fear of Disaster Jesus Brings Hope Fear of Death Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesus Brings Hope Christmas is a wonderful time of the year. It’s a time to take a break from work, at least for a few days and spend time with our families. Christmas is a time to think of giving to others. Christmas is a time to be thankful for the good things that God has brought into our lives [...] Related posts:Jesus Dispels Fear Discover Hope For Your Life Jesus – The Reign Of God Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fear of Disaster What is the most fearless animal you can imagine? The animal that comes to my mind is the lion, the king of beasts. Are you as fearless as a lion? The Bible says that you should be. Proverbs 28:1 (NIV) The wicked man flees though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion. Fear [...] Related posts:Fear of Insignificance Fear of Death Fear of Failing God Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fear of Death God can help you overcome fear in your life. Fear takes many forms. Most people don’t say I’m afraid very much. We soften it. We say things like, I’m worried about … . Worry is just another form of fear. Worry is fear of what may happen in the future. God’s Word tells us not to fear and not [...] Related posts:Fear of Insignificance Fear of Failing God Jesus Dispels Fear Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fear of Failing God God wants His children to be free from all fear. That’s why Jesus told so many people to “Fear not.” Not only does God want you as a believer to be fearless, He wants to use you to help others who are bound up with fear and worry. Psalm 27:1 (NLT) The Lord is my light and [...] Related posts:Fear of Insignificance Fear of Death Bouncing Back From Failure Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fear of Insignificance Our society and culture is full of people who are afraid. God doesn’t want His children to be afraid. He wants you to be fearless as you follow Him. Fear is a negative emotion that is uncomfortable. We don’t like to be afraid. However, fear is not just a minor inconvenience. Fear can lead you to miss [...] Related posts:Fear of Death Fear of Failing God Fear of Disaster Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Facing Your Fears Think back on what was your earliest fear in life. I remember being afraid to let my leg hang off my bed at night, because I wasn’t sure what might lurk underneath. If I had to get out of my bed at night, I leaped off, so whatever was underneath couldn’t get a hold of me. As we [...] Related posts:Finding Courage In Crisis Fear of Death Fear of Disaster Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking Up For Guidance Who knows what tomorrow holds? Not you, not me, no human being knows what tomorrow holds. Oh, people can make general predictions, but even those often turn out to be wrong. Virtually no one predicted the financial meltdown of 2008. Will 2010 be the end of the recession or the beginning of an even greater depression? No one [...] Related posts:Following God’s Guidance Slowing Down The Pace Looking Forward With Faith Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking Back With Thanksgiving There are two basic ways to look at tomorrow. The first way to look at tomorrow is with worry and fear. We let our minds race over what possibly could go wrong in the future. When we look at tomorrow with worry and fear, we are expecting tomorrow to be worse than today. God does not want [...] Related posts:Receiving God’s Encouragement Finding Courage In Crisis Facing Your Fears Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking Back With Thanksgiving There are two basic ways to look at tomorrow. The first way to look at tomorrow is with worry and fear. We let our minds race over what possibly could go wrong in the future. When we look at tomorrow with worry and fear, we are expecting tomorrow to be worse than today. God does not want [...] Related posts:The Joy Of Thanksgiving Finding Courage In Crisis Facing Your Fears Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Be Blessed Financially God gave us His Word in order to teach us how to live a successful life with His help. Success in God’s eyes is discovering God’s will and then doing it, nothing more and nothing less. God wants you to be a success in life, that’s what He created you for. Yet many people don’t [...] Related posts:Giving That Feels GoodHow To Be Successful In Life Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giving That Feels Good God has given to us a gift, the Word of God, which is the Bible. The Bible is not simply words written down by men, the Bible is the very Word of God. The Bible is God’s revelation of who He is and how people can know God. God’s Word is God’s manual for living a blessed [...]No related posts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love That Challenges Being part of a great church is essential for a believer to be blessed by God. Why is it important to be part of a church family? When you are part of a church family, God’s blessing increases in your life. When you are part of a church family, you build relationships that will encourage you. When you are [...]Related posts:God’s Plan for FathersThe Importance Of LoveThe Misunderstanding of Church Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Am I Here? Why are you and I here on this planet? Different people have different answers to that question. Some would say that we’re here because some type of living organism evolved from the primordial ooze billions of years ago. In essence, they would say, that we are here by random chance. If we’re here by random chance, than [...]Related posts:Why Was I Created As I Am?Adjusting Your Thinking Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Tomorrow Together An infant lives for the moment, seeking to satisfy his physical needs. An adult should live for tomorrow, basing his life and actions on what would have the greatest impact for good for his children. A believer should live for eternity, charting his life on a course to influence the eternal destinies of people yet [...] Related posts:Expand Your Vision To The WorldLiving Your DreamLiving With A Grander Vision Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Get Your Life Back On Track The Bible tells us that God has marked out a path or track that each person should follow in life. Following God’s path for your life is the best possible way that you can life your life. Unfortunately, a lot of people have never found God’s path for their life or they have left God’s [...] Related posts:Investing In Growth For LifeWaiting on a Big GodNo Pain No Gain Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Revival Through The Word What is revival? Revival is the renewal of interest in God or the recovery of spiritual life and strength. Believers and churches across America need revival. Millions of people across the US think they are Christians, but have no relationship with God and so are truly unbelievers. Unbelievers need revival. Perhaps I might say more [...] Related posts:Enjoying God’s WordHow To Ensure Your Plans Succeed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Face Adversity A believer will face all kinds of adversity as they seek to follow Jesus Christ. For some, this comes as a rude shock. They thought that God was going to solve all their problems and give them the easy life. Believers who do not develop deep roots in God do not last through the difficulties [...] Related posts:Overcoming Opposition When Following JesusDefeating DepressionBouncing Back From Failure Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Importance of Unity Unity seems to be an elusive goal in our society. Marriages and families are disintegrating at an alarming rate. Infighting and division is common in many other groups, including businesses and churches. What is the cause of this breakdown in unity and harmonius relationships? The cause is simply selfishness, seeking to obtain the greatest advantage [...] Related posts:Growing Together In A Life GroupKeeping Team UnityGuarding Your Church Family Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overcoming Opposition When Following Jesus Whenever anyone makes a decision to follow Jesus and God’s plan for their life, there will be opposition. A lot of people are surprised and dismayed when following God turns out not to be the easy road they thought it was going to be. In fact, the Bible promises that when you follow Jesus, there [...] Related posts:Overcoming FailureOvercoming Your TemptationsJesus – The Reign Of God Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God’s Plan for Fathers Fathers are an incredibly important part of God’s plan. God has created fathers to be leaders and protectors in multiple spheres of responsibility. In the book of Nehemiah, the fathers helped to build the wall around Jerusalem. The wall provided protection and security. Today’s father must build three walls in order to be successful in [...] Related posts:Influencing Your ChildrenFulfilling God’s Purpose As A FatherQuestions Parents Should Ask Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Ensure Your Plans Succeed Planning is important. Those who do not plan, who put their emphasis in life on spontaneity, have problems. A wise person will take the time to make careful plans. Proverbs 21:5 (NIV) The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty. It takes time to plan, but planning leads to [...] Related posts:Bouncing Back From FailureOvercoming FailureOvercoming Discouragement In Your Life Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Misunderstanding of Church The number of people who never or rarely attend church continues to increase. A George Barna poll shows 38% of adult Americans are in the category of being unchurched. Of the people who regularly attend church, a staggering 45% are willing to try a new church. So we have a large group of people who [...] Related posts:St Louis Church Directory – A Tool For Finding A St Louis ChurchWhy Go To Church?Why Does Full Life Community Church Meet In A School Gym? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Waiting on a Big God Waiting on a big God is a very important part of growing spiritually. Although none of us likes to wait, God seems to have a particular liking for making people wait for Him to act. The Bible is full of people who had to wait on the Lord. Moses waited 40 years before he led [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bouncing Back From Failure Everybody fails in life from time to time. How can you bounce back from failure without it destroying your life? To answer that question, we need to look at what failure is all about. True failure is always caused by sin. The Greek word for sin is hamartia which means to miss the mark. The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What You Don't Know About The Presidential Candidates In this primary season, as no other in my memory, the stands of the presidential candidates on issues of importance to a Christian have been very difficult to determine. Even though there is broad agreement among Christians on a great number of moral issues, there has been no agreement on the best presidential candidate who supports those positions. National Christian leaders seem as confused as rank and file Christians, one endorsing one candidate, one another and some not knowing who to e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What You Don't Know About The Presidential Candidates In this primary season, as no other in my memory, the stands of the presidential candidates on issues of importance to a Christian have been very difficult to determine. Even though there is broad agreement among Christians on a great number of moral issues, there has been no agreement on the best presidential candidate who supports those positions. National Christian leaders seem as confused as rank and file Christians, one endorsing one candidate, one another and some not knowing who to e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Your Dream Today, we are concluding our message series "Dealing with Difficulties." In this series, we've looked at how the Bible teaches us to handle the tough times that we all have to face. As we finish the series, I hope you've noticed that we are now not just focusing on difficulties. Last Sunday, we talked about "The Joy of Thanksgiving." As you focus on God and His power through thanksgiving, you gain strength and joy to face life's difficulties.Today, I've entitled the message "Living Your Dre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Your Dream Today, we are concluding our message series "Dealing with Difficulties." In this series, we've looked at how the Bible teaches us to handle the tough times that we all have to face. As we finish the series, I hope you've noticed that we are now not just focusing on difficulties. Last Sunday, we talked about "The Joy of Thanksgiving." As you focus on God and His power through thanksgiving, you gain strength and joy to face life's difficulties.Today, I've entitled the message "Living Your Dre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Joy Of Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is almost here. Thanksgiving is a time for family and food. Lots of it, turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. God has given us both family and food to enjoy, yet I believe there is something else He wants us to learn this Thanksgiving. It's a lesson that is not just for one day of the year, but something you can practice every day. Thanksgiving is not meant to be about us, it's meant to be about God. He's the one that we are to thank. He's the one that we are to b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Courage In Crisis The dictionary defines courage as "the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action." Do you have courage? Are you a courageous person? The only way that you know for sure that you have courage is when you face a difficulty, danger or crisis in life. How you respond to a crisis will determine how much courage you have. Todd Beamer was a passenger on board Flight 92 on September 11, 2001 when it was ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Defeating Depression Currently we're in a message series called "Dealing with Difficulties." What I trust we're learning is that no matter what difficulty you're facing in your life, there is hope. God is bigger than any mountain you may be up against in your life. God's Word, the Bible, has all the answers you need to live the life God created you to live. NLT 2 Peter 1:3 As we know Jesus better, His divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. Circle that word "everything." Everything yo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overcoming Failure Currently, we're in a message series called "Dealing With Difficulties." We're talking about what the Bible has to say about dealing with the difficulties that we all face in life. Those difficulties loom in front of us like mountains to be climbed and overcome. God doesn't want to see you overcome by difficulties, He wants to see you successful in life. Success in God's eyes does not depend on making a lot of money or making it to the top in your career. Success in God's eyes is found by f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Peace Of Mind Today, my message is called "Finding Peace Of Mind." What is peace of mind? Peace of mind is not something that comes when every conflict in your life is resolved or every stressful situation is a thing of the past. That's how some people seek peace of mind. They think that if only their difficulties in life were fixed, then they would have peace of mind. The problem is that we live on earth, not in heaven. Difficulties are simply part of everyone's life, you can't escape them.So then, how ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coping With Stress Life is certainly not easy, it can be like mountain climbing. Just when you thought things were going to get easier, another mountain looms in front of you. Those mountains are the difficulties that God allows into our lives. Everyone one of us has at least one difficult mountain that we've got to climb over to move on in our lives. This morning we start a new message series which I've entitled "Dealing With Difficulties." If God allows those difficult mountains to come into our lives, does ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healing For Injuries When American adults are asked what their top priority in life is, 91% list good physical health Good physical health is an important part of life but even more important is our emotional health and the most important part of life is our spiritual health. People can get sick physically emotionally or spiritually and need healing. God wants you to have good health in all these three areas. NIV 3 John 1:2 Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, ev ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Resisting Quitting Today, I'm going to talk about "Resisting Quitting." Ever felt like quitting? People quit for all kinds of reasons. Might be that waiting in the line at the checkout counter is just taking too long, so they put their stuff down and leave. Maybe someone is in some kind of relationship and things aren't going well, so they break off the relationship, whether a friendship or a marriage. Could be that someone thinks that God isn't helping them as much as they think He should, so they bail out o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keeping Team Unity Today I'm going to talk about "Keeping Team Unity" in our message series Faith Workout. Each of us is on multiple teams in life. Your family is a team, you should work together for common goals. Not just the parents, but the parents and all of the children are together on the family team. You're part of a team at work, maybe multiple teams. If you're in a Life Group you're on a team. If you're a member at Full Life, you're part of the Full Life team. If you're working on a ministry with oth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living With Resurrection Power Happy Easter! What a great day to worship God together. Welcome to all of our guests. We�re glad that choose to join us on Easter. There�s just something special about Easter. The people that keep track of such things tell us that Easter has the highest church attendance of the year. What is it about Easter? What draws people to church on Easter? It�s not the Easter bunny, Easter eggs or springtime, it�s something else. I think what draws people to church on Easter is related to the true me ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exercising Your Tongue Currently we�re in a message series called �Faith Workout.� In this series we�re looking at many of the important themes from the book of James. James is a short book of five chapters in the New Testament. If you haven�t taken the time yet to read through it during this series, I would encourage you to do it this week. James is an intensely practical book that deals with many of the day to day issues we all face. Today I�m going to talk about �Exercising Your Tongue.� When you exercise in a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faith That Wins Currently we�re in a message series called �Faith Workout.� In this series we�re talking about real faith. I use the term real faith because not all so-called faith is real. There are a lot of religions in the world: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and the list could go on and on. Is the faith of all these religions the same? Is it real faith that connects to God? The answer is �no.� Christianity is unique among the religions of the world in teaching real faith.In all the other rel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning Teamwork Currently we�re in a message series that I�ve called �Faith Workout� Living the Christian life is not for wimps, you have to be a strong person to stand up for God in a world that wants little to do with Him. Your faith must grow stronger each day in order to handle the challenges that you will be facing in the future. So, we don�t have any time to waste, let�s get on with our Faith Workout for this week. Today our Faith Workout lesson is �Learning Teamwork.� Contrary to what some people th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Pain No Gain Today we begin a new message series which I�ve entitled �Faith Workout.� Faith is essential to the Christian life. In fact the Bible tells us in Hebrews 11:6 that without faith it is impossible to please God. Therefore if you want to have a relationship with God in this life and for eternity, you�ve got to have faith. But what is faith? How does faith work itself out in the lives of a believer? How can your faith grow stronger? In this message series, we�re going to learn that faith is not ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discerning God's Voice Today, I am concluding our July message series, which I�ve called �How To Hear God Speak.� In this series, we�ve been talking about prayer as not just one-way, but two-way communication. Prayer is not just about asking God for things, it is about a relationship in which God speaks to His children. If you believe that God is speaking to you about a direction for your life, then the wise thing to do is to do what He is saying. But how do you know if it really was God speaking to you? If it re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Direction From God We are currently in a message series called �How To Hear God Speak.� Last week we talked about five common ways that God speaks to us. God is a speaking God, we�ve just go to learn how to hear Him. Sometimes we need direction from God, but we miss His call. We haven�t learned how to get direction from God in the very real decisions that we have to make in life. This week I�ve entitled the message �Getting Direction From God� I�m going to expand on how God communicates with us through the Ho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Understanding How God Speaks Last week we started a new message series called �How To Hear God Speak.� We talked about why it�s important to hear God and how you can prepare your mind to actually hear God speak to you. It�s very important to be able to hear your heavenly Father speak to you. Just imagine what trouble your children would have in life if they couldn�t hear you speak to them. You are God�s child and God is your Father. You never outgrow that relationship. You never grow up to the point that you don�t need ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preparing To Hear God Today we begin a new message series entitled �How To Hear God Speak.� This is an incredibly important topic. People who hear God speak to them are successes in life, people who don�t hear God speak end up failures. People who hear God find joy in fulfilling God�s purpose for their life. People who don�t hear God miss out on God�s purpose.Just this past week, someone made the following comment on my blog �No matter what I try (and I've tried for 30 years), I don't hear God. I listen. I pray. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Happens When I Die? Today, we tackle the ultimate God Question �What Happens When I Die?� It is an incredibly important question, but a lot of people just try to ignore the fact that we�re all going to die. However, death is not just the end. Death really is the beginning of another existence that will continue forever. No matter what difficulty or pain you experience in this life, no matter how bad or how long it lasts, it will be over in 100 years or less. Eternity will never be over, it continues on forever ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Does God Allow Suffering? Today, we tackle one of the toughest God Questions of all, �Why Does God Allow Suffering? Suffering is all around us. We see it on the news, we hear it from our friends and we experience it in our lives. Some suffering is just a momentary inconvenience, other suffering is devastating. Jesus told His followers in NIV John 16:33 In this world you will have trouble. Jesus says that as long as we are in the world, we will have trouble, we will have pain and suffering. For some people, suffering ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Jesus The Only Way To God? Currently, we�re in a message series called �God Questions.� We�re looking at some basic and tough questions that people have about God. I encourage you to read along in The God Questions book that we have made available. If you�re a first-time guest, you can pick up a free copy at the end of the service at the rear of the auditorium. Today, I want to address the question �Is Jesus The Only Way To God?� The majority of people in America would answer that question with a resounding "No". For ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Should I Believe The Bible? Currently, we�re in a message series called �God Questions.� We�re looking at some basic questions that everyone has had at one time or another about God. Last Sunday, we addressed the question, �How can I know that God is real?� If you missed the message, you can listen to it on our website or order a CD at the Information table. One of the evidences we have a God�s existence is what He has revealed to us in the Bible. However, today in America, less than half of the adults believe that th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opening Doors For Others Today, I am excited to begin a new series at Full Life called �God Questions.� In this series, we�re going to look at some tough questions that people have about God. Take a look at the God Questions survey in the middle of your bulletin. I�m going to read through the questions and as I do, put a 1 next to the hardest question for you to answer, then 2 then 3. Here are the questions: What happens to me when I die? What proof is there that the Bible is true? If God is so good, why is there s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Being An Encourager Being a mother is an awesome privilege and a great responsibility. NIV Psalm 113:9 He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD. God wants Moms to be happy mothers of children. To be a happy mother, you�ve got to have a sense of humor. We don�t live in a perfect world, and even if we did, the kids would mess it up in short order. Some elementary school children were asked the following questions about Moms: Why did God make mothers? She's the only o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forgiving When It's Hard Currently we�re in a message series called �God�s Power For Your Relationships.� In the last weeks I�ve talked about the importance of love and patience. This week, I want to tackle a somewhat more difficult topic. What do we do when a relationship has problems? When a relationship becomes damaged? When someone we care about hurts us? Some people hold a grudge and become bitter. Others try to pretend that nothing has happened. Neither response is God�s way to deal with problems in a relatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Practicing Patience Today I am going to talk about �Practicing Patience.� Patience is an essential character trait that you need to develop in order to have healthy relationships. You can�t talk about patience without talking about anger, because the word patience means �slow to get angry.� The Greek word for patience is �macrothumos� where macro means �long or slow� and thumos means �anger or wrath.� So patience means you have a long fuse, you don�t blow up easily, you manage youranger.NIV Proverbs 14:29 A pa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning To Love Today we begin a new message series which I�ve entitled �God�s Power For Your Relationships.� We�re going to look at how God�s power can help you with your relationships. Quite frankly, relationships are what life is all about. Relationships with family, with relatives, with neighbors, with co-workers, with people at church. Relationships can make life wonderful or miserable. We need God�s power to help our relationships be everything that God intended. Today, my first message in this serie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Believing In God's Power Today, we�re concluding my message series �Bright Living In A Dark World. We�ve been looking at the ancient book of Esther as a model for how we should live for God in the world that God has put us into. Our world in the 21st century AD is a dark world, but so was the world of the Persian empire that Esther found herself in the 5th century BC.Let�s review the story of Esther so far that we�ve covered. If you haven�t yet read the book ofEsther, I encourage you to read it this week, it�s only ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Courage To Serve God In my message series, �Bright Living In A Dark World� we�re looking at how you and I can shine like candles in a dark room. As believers, as followers of Jesus Christ, ourpurpose in life is to push back the darkness around us by allowing God�s light to shine through us. The brighter you shine for God, the more power God gives you so you can shine even more brightly.The problem is that many people aren�t shining at all. They�re being overcome by the darkness, by the dark side that we talked ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Understanding The Dark Side Currently, we�re in a message series which I�ve called �Bright Living In A Dark World.� Even though we may all agree that the world is a dark place, God is calling us as believers to shine as candles in the darkness. The Bible speaks of two kingdoms, the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light. Every person is in one of those kingdoms or the other. No one can straddle the fence. Those two kingdoms are in conflict. There is a battle raging between these two kingdoms that has gone on sin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Designed For A Purpose The world is a dark place in many ways. The top headlines on the MSNBC website last Tuesday were: Fall Guy � Libby was set up to take the blame for CIA Leak, Dozens of Iraqi pilgrims massacred, Sumatra quake kills scores. You might say that the news media is not a true barometer of what is going on in the world. I think there�s a certain amount of truth to that � seems like the only news fit for print is the bad news. However, you have to admit that everything is not right in our world � th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Questions Parents Should Ask Today, we�re beginning a new message series on parenting called �Parental Guidance Required�. Being a parent is a great joy, but it is also a great responsibility. My wife Carol and I are in the middle of learning how to parent. We have seven children with ages ranging from 2 through 11. With God�s help we have learned a few things that I believe will be helpful to you and your children.Each of us of course had parents. When you look back on your own childhood, what do you remember?. You re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding The Right Friends A man once had a pet canary that had a beautiful song. During the summer, the man thought he would let his canary enjoy the sunshine. So he put the canary�s cage in a tree in his backyard. Of course, there were a lot of other birds that frequented the tree, mainly sparrows. Whereas canaries sing, sparrows simply twitter and chirp. Over the course of the summer, the canary�s song began to change. By the end of the summer, the canary sounded just like a sparrow. He had lost his beautiful song ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Influencing Your Children This Sunday, I�m returning to our message series on parenting called �Parental Guidance Required�. In this series, we�re talking about the importance of relationships in raising your children. As a parent, you need to influence three relationships with your children. Their relationship with God. Their relationship with you as their parents and their relationship with others outside of your home. Each relationship is vital for you as a parent to work on with your children.Today, my message t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Your Children And God Currently, we�re in a message series on parenting called �Parental Guidance Required�. Children need parental guidance, it�s required not just recommended. Children don�t just need guidance from any source, they need their parent�s guidance. God has given each parent who depends on Him, the ability to guide their children.Last Sunday, I spoke on the importance of relationships in raising your children. As a parent, you need to influence three relationships with your children. Their relation ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living With A Grander Vision Today, I�m concluding a message series called �Just Walk Across The Room.� If you missed some of the messages, you can listen to or download them from our website. This series is about reaching out to those around us who are not believers.Many people who are not believers consider themselves Christians. In 2006, 80% of adults in the US claimed to be Christians. Yet, only about half of the people who claim to be Christian actually believe they will go to heaven because they have admitted the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning To Tell Two Stories Currently we�re in a message series called �Just Walk Across The Room.� We�re talking about how easy it can be to share your faith with others. If you�re a believer this morning, someone, somewhere, somehow, shared their faith with you. God wants each of us to get better at sharing the greatest gift we have been given in life, the gift of Jesus with others.Last week I talked about three steps to reaching out to those who don�t yet know God. The first step was simply to develop a friendship. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three Steps To Reaching Out Have you ever wondered what the most important thing in life is? Some people think the most important thing in life is being a nice person. Others think the most important thing is to raise your family well. Still others think that having fun is the most important thing. And I�m sure there are many other ideas about the most important thing in life.How can we determine what the most important thing in life is? The most important thing is whatever has the greatest positive consequences if yo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Greatest Gift You Can Give Happy New Year everyone. It�s the first Sunday of 2007, a great year to be alive in, a great Sunday to be at Full Life Community Church. Today, I�m beginning a brand new message series that can change your life. And not just your life, but the lives of people around you that you love and care about. I�m not just talking about superficial change, but a change that will last into eternity.What I�m going to begin talking about today is outreach or sharing your faith with someone else. Some of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reaching Out In 2007 Well, it�s the last day of 2006. Another year has come and gone. Life is a journey and the years, months and days are the stepping stones of that journey. Your life�s journey is not meant to be random meanderings, God intends for you to go somewhere in your life. His purpose is for you to accomplish things that will last for eternity. You will only accomplish God�s purpose for your life in the context of a church family that has a vision, a church family that is going somewhere with God.Let ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Experience God's Love In Jesus If you�ve had to opportunity to watch children, I�m sure you�ve noticed that they live in a world of their own. Children aren�t interested in how much money is left in the check book at the end of month. They simply expect food on the table when it�s time to eat. Children aren�t interested in the difficulties you had with your boss this week. They want you to come and play with them. You see, children can�t come into your world, they don�t really understand it. So, we as parents must come i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discover Hope For Your Life Christmas is a season of hope. Children are hoping that it snows. Adults are hoping that it doesn�t snow. Some people are hoping they�ll get a certain gift. Others are hoping that their relatives won�t fight on Christmas Eve. All kinds of hopes. These kinds of hope are wishes that something good will happen. Sometimes these kinds of hopes come true, sometimes they don�t. These kinds of hope are based on people�s wishes, a very uncertain foundation for hope.The Bible talks about a different ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Grow Into A Woman Of Faith Christmas in coming closer everyday, it�s only fifteen days away now. Christmas is a wonderful season of the year and a busy season. Each of us needs to be careful, that in the midst of gift buying, decorating and cookie baking, we give some thought to the true meaning of Christmas. Do your part to keep Christ in Christmas.Use the word Christmas, don�t follow the crowd and use Happy Holidays and Seasons Greetings. If your work has dropped Christmas, give them a little flack. Why is it that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Become A Man Of Courage Courage is in short supply these days. Here's my definition of courage, "Doing the right thing in the face of opposition." Why do I think that courage is in short supply? I see a lot of people just going along with the flow and doing the wrong thing. It takes courage to go against the flow and do the right things in life. The opposite of courage is simply going with the flow, doing what everybody around you is doing. The opposite of courage is cowardice, being so afraid of what other people ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life's Greatest Questions Today, I'm going to be talking about "Life's Greatest Questions." Your life and your eternal destiny are determined by the decisions that you make in life. As you and I go through life, we are faced with an ongoing series of choices or questions.Life is kind of like the game shows where the contestant is offered the choice of door number one, number two or number three. The contestant's choice will make the difference between going home with something of great value or something of no worth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Developing A Thankful Attitude This week is Thanksgiving, a day to celebrate the goodness of God in our lives. It's a day to remind us of all the things we have to be thankful for. Thanksgiving is not the only day of the year we should be thankful. In fact, thanksgiving should be a continual attitude in our lives.Today, I'm going to talk about "Developing A Thankful Attitude." A thankful attitude does not come naturally, it�s something that must be developed with God's help.NIV Psalm 107:1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keeping Your Life In Balance Today, my topic is "Keeping Your Life In Balance," or maybe I should have called it "How To Keep All Your Plates Spinning." Life is complex these days and each of us has many hats to wear. We have our role in our families, our roles at our jobs or in our schools, we have our role in our church and a myriad of other responsibilities to keep us busy. And somewhere in the mix, we try to keep God in it all. Unfortunately, sometimes we only have time for God on Sunday. That's not so good, that's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Biblical Perspective On The Stem Cell Debate Today, I'm going to talk about "A Biblical Perspective on the Stem Cell Debate." This issue has been around for a while, but has come to Missouri in the form of a ballot initiative called Missouri Amendment 2 : The Stem Cell Initiative. If you've been following the news or just the World Series, you've heard from actors, politicians and doctors giving you their 30-second take on the issue. It's a controversial issue and confusing for many people, in fact I really didn't understand what was ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Expand Your Vision To The World What is vision? Vision is eyesight, but today I want to talk about something more than mere eyesight. Another definition of vision in the dictionary is "a mental image of the imagination." For some people, vision in life is limited essentially by what they can see with their eyes, they have a small vision. God wants you to have a large vision, a vision in your imagination painted by God's spirit NAS Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained. A vision from God focu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Can I Talk About Jesus? Becoming a believer in Jesus Christ is the most wonderful thing that could happen to anyone. The Bible says that when someone becomes a believer, they are "born again." It's as if you are born into a new world. It's a world where God is so close to you that He actually lives inside of you. You are born into a new world where your sins are forgiven and your guilt is gone. You are born again into a world where your life now has purpose and meaning. When you become a believer, you are born int ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mission Possible Today, I'm going to talk about what is the most exciting part of life. It's actually not very well known. A recent poll showed that less than 1 in 4 church goers practiced it in the last year in the US. I'm talking about one of the 5 purposes that God has for your life, the purpose of outreach. the purpose of telling someone else about your faith in Jesus Christ. Today, we're beginning a new message series called "Reaching Out To Make A Difference." God wants to use you to be a bridge to H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adjusting Your Thinking After Hurricane Katrina last year, an English atheist named Roy Hattersley wrote an interesting article. In his article he observed that almost all of the disaster relief was being done by religious groups of one kind or another. There were no teams of atheists or free thinkers or rationalists. He concluded that he wished it was possible to live a Christian life without being a Christian, yet it didn't seem to work that way. The faith of believers gives rise to serving others. Hattersley ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Can I Serve God? Currently, we're in a message series which I've entitled "Created To Do What?" The basic truth underlying this series is that you and I were created by God with a purpose in mind. God created you to do something special with your life, to do something unique that only you can do. When you become a believer, God implants a desire in your heart to please God. God gives you a desire to fulfill the Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Your Assignment From God You and I were created by God, you are not the product of evolution. If you and I were the product of evolution, then life would have no meaning. We would have no purpose except to live and die. However, you were created by God. Therefore your life has purpose, but what is that purpose? What are you and I supposed to do with our lives? Today I begin a new message series called "Created To Do What?" That's one of the most important questions anyone can ask. Doesn't matter if your 9 or 90, y ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Investing In Growth For Life Americans don't like to wait, we want what we want now, instantly. We don't like to wait in lines, we don't like to wait in traffic. We buy our foods frozen and pop it into the microwave, instant dinner. We used to have to wait for a certain TV show to be on the air, but now you can download it instantly on the internet. Email too slow for you, use instant messaging. Instant coffee, instant oatmeal, instant credit and the list goes on. Young couples want the affluence of their parents insta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overcoming Your Temptations Today my message is entitled "Overcoming Your Temptations." Jesus had temptations, I have temptations, you have temptations. Temptations are part of life, you can't get away from them. Temptations come in all sorts of sizes and flavors. The traditional seven deadly sins are: pride, envy; anger, laziness, greed, gluttony and lust. Those cover a lot of our temptations. Temptations come at us in an instant. We often don't take time to think things through, we just react and give into tempta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Purpose Of Temptation Currently we're in a message series called "Growing In Life's Journey." God uses a number of tools to help each person grow during their lives. God has a plan and purpose for your life and the only way that you're going to accomplish that purpose is for you to continue to grow. Growth is a lifelong process, it takes work, you've got to stick with it, but the results will last forever. People who are growing are people who are learning to love and serve God and others. People who don't want ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don't Waste Your Troubles Currently we're in a message series called "Growing In Life's Journey." God wants you to grow in every dimension of your life, growth involves change. Growth and change are good things that will make your life better. However, we tend to resist change. We don't want to change, we just want our circumstances to change. God doesn't work that way. He's more interested in changing you than changing your circumstances. The other day one of my children was preparing something for us to eat. They ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guarding Your Church Family Last week we talked about how fathers can lead their families. One of the things that a father must do is to guard his family from danger When you think of guarding your family, you think of guarding from an external danger. However the biggest danger to your family is not external, it's internal. If the unity within a family is threatened, if the peace within a family becomes a conflict, the family can deteriorate from inside. The same is true of the church family, which is what I'm going ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Lead Your Family Happy Father's Day to all the Dads here today. Being a father is a great privilege that God has given to us, a privilege to lead and guide our families in the ways of God. Being a father is also a great responsibility. It's not so easy wearing all the hats that a dad has to wear these days. I've found out it's a lot of hard work being a good father. It's not always so easy to do the right things and keep all the parts of my life in balance. In fact, I've discovered that I'm not smart enou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Restore Broken Relationships Relationships are at the core of what it means to be human. Nobody wants to live life alone, nobody wants to live life without warm, loving relationships. Where do we get this strong desire for relationships? We get it from God. We were created in God's image and God Himself consists of a relationship between the three persons of the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. So God created us to have a loving relationship with Himself and to have loving relationships with other people. Whether ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Growing Together In A Life Group We're currently in a message series called "Become Part of the Family." In this message series we're talking about God's purpose for your life of community or fellowship. God has five purposes for your life and building relationships within the family of God is the one that I'm going to talk about today. None of God's five purposes for your life is optional. If you don't grow in these purposes, you're not going to reach the potential that God created you with. More than that, if you don't g ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning To Share Life This week we're back to our message series "Become Part of the Family." In this message series we're talking about God's family right here at Full Life. When God created you, He didn't create you to live life by yourself. He created you to live as part of a family, part of God's family in a local church. Only as you and I learn to live in God's family will our lives be successful, only as we find our part in the church will our lives fulfill God's purpose. So today I'm going to talk about ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Laughing At The Da Vinci Code This weekend the Da Vinci Code movie was released. It is based on the best-selling book by author Dan Brown which was first published in 2003. The book has sold over 40 million copies and will probably end up as the best-selling novel of all time.So why is the book so popular? Why am I talking about it in a Sunday morning message? What's it all about? The novel is so popular because it is not just a spell-binding novel, it presents itself as much more than fiction. The first word that one ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding A Place To Belong Today I'm going to talk about "Finding A Place To Belong." God created you and I to be part of a community, to be part of a family. Much of the behavior we see around us, some good some bad, is people searching to find a place to belong. It starts in school, beginning in middle school, peaking in high school and extending into college.Youth want to have a group they feel they belong to, they sense what is termed "peer pressure." Peer pressure is the pressure of others, real or perceived, t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Importance Of Love Somebody once sang the phrase "Love makes the world go round." Although it's not a verse in the Bible, it's true. Now the love that really makes the world go round, the love that created the earth and put the stars in space, is God's love. The Bible says that God is love. Since God is love and He created people in His own image, then love is at the heart of every human being. Without love, our world won't go round, it will come to a screeching halt. Everybody instinctually knows that inside ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What God's Family Is About Pollster George Barna reports that the top priority of adults in America is their families. God put that desire, the desire to be part of a healthy family, in the hearts of every person. Regardless of whether the family you grew up in was healthy or not, God created you first and foremost to be part of His family. NIV 1 John 3:1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! Being part of God's family and relating the rest of God's family is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Encouragement Of Easter What a great day to be alive, Easter 2006. Many of the symbols we have of Easter are about new life: rabbits, eggs, flowers and springtime. However, Easter is not just about life, it is about life from death. Easter is about resurrection. The true meaning of Easter is the historical fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 2000 years ago. Easter means that Jesus is alive today and that gives us joy and hope. Jesus said in NIV Revelation 1:18 I am the Living One; I was dead, a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Worshiping When You Don't Feel Like It Today my message topic is "Worshiping When You Don't Feel Like It". Sometimes God seems a million miles away. Sometimes you can't sense the presence of God. You pray, but nothing seems to happen. Things may be going wrong in your life, but God doesn't seem to be around. Just like the lady in our picture, you feel all alone and it's a rainy, blue day. In those times, you don't feel like worshiping God, you may even begin to feel like God doesn't care about you. A lot of people don't believ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Worship Currently, we�re in a messages series entitled �Worship Can Change Your Life.� You were created to worship God and that innate desire to worship is inside of every human being. If you don�t worship God, then you will worship something that He created. Worship can change your life because when you worship God you become like Him. When your worship pleases God, it will change your life. If you worship something other than God, you will become like it and that�s not good.So today, I want to te ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Get Close To God Today I�m going to talk about �How To Get Close To God.� Why would you want to get close to God? Think about it for a minute, why do people want to get close to other people? Some people want to get close to other people because they love and care about them. Other people want to get close to someone else because that person has power, money or influence and they feel they can receive a benefit by being close to them. Another reason someone might want to get close to someone else is to lear ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friendship With God For many people, God is hard to understand, hard to comprehend. We can�t see Him, we can�t touch Him, we can�t hear Him with our physical ears. Some people think of God as a force, but God is not a force, God is a person. God is a person who has all power, all knowledge and is everywhere present. How can a mere finite mortal human being like you or I interact with such a person? God is the one who created us and He rules the universe. Most of us would be in awe if we came into the presence ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Surrendering To God The last person to be rescued from the Twin Towers of the 9/11 tragedy was Genelle McMillan. She had been trapped in the rubble for 27 hours when she was finally rescued by fire fighters. Genelle had worked on the 64th floor of the World Trade Center but when the planes hit she was encased alive in between slabs of concrete. Although Genelle had been raised in church, she had fallen away from God. In the darkness of the rubble, her thoughts once again turned to God and she began to pray. Sh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning To Please God Currently, we�re in a message series which I�ve entitled �Worship Can Change Your Life.� Worship is one of the five biblical purposes for your life. God created you to worship and He gave you a free will to choose what or whom you would worship. The only worship that makes sense is to worship your creator, God Himself. Howeer many people worship created things. The Bible calls worshipping created things foolish and it leads to big problems in your life. When you worship God, you build a re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning To Please God Currently, we're in a message series which I've entitled "Worship Can Change Your Life." Worship is one of the five biblical purposes for your life. God created you to worship and He gave you a free will to choose what or whom you would worship. The only worship that makes sense is to worship your creator, God Himself. However, many people worship created things. The Bible calls worshipping created things foolish and it leads to big problems in your life. When you worship God, you build a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Worship? Today we begin a new message series which I�ve entitled �Worship Can Change Your Life.� I suspect that if I went out on the street and asked people the question, "How could you change your life for the better?", an answer of worship would be pretty low on the list. People would say things like, "Exercise can change your life" or "Getting more education can change your life" or "Working harder can change your life." However you wouldn't hear anything about worship. For many people, worship ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Worship? Today we begin a new message series which I�ve entitled �Worship Can Change Your Life.� I suspect that if I went out on the street and asked people the question, "How could you change your life for the better?", an answer of worship would be pretty low on the list. People would say things like, "Exercise can change your life" or "Getting more education can change your life" or "Working harder can change your life." However you wouldn't hear anything about worship. For many people, worship ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God's Purpose For Your Life Today we�re going to conclude the message series �Why Am I Here?� by answering the question �Why Am I Here?� The Bible teaches and we believe that you are here because God created you. However, the question �Why Am I Here?� has a deeper answer because everything that God created, He created with a purpose in mind. NLT Proverbs 16:4 The LORD has made everything for his own purposes. This really isn�t very surprising is it? When you make something, you make it with a purpose in mind. When an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life In Light Of Eternity Currently we�re in a message series entitled �Why Am I Here?� In this series, we�ve talked about how God created you with a purpose in mind. God�s purpose for your life transcends the 70, 80 or 90 years that you will live on this earth. God�s purpose for your life is for you to affect eternity by impacting the lives of other people here and now. Your life has far greater significance then you have probably ever realized. What you do in this life will affect your eternity and it will affect ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life In Light Of Eternity Currently we�re in a message series entitled �Why Am I Here?� In this series, we�ve talked about how God created you with a purpose in mind. God�s purpose for your life transcends the 70, 80 or 90 years that you will live on this earth. God�s purpose for your life is for you to affect eternity by impacting the lives of other people here and now. Your life has far greater significance then you have probably ever realized. What you do in this life will affect your eternity and it will affect ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Does God View Your Life? Why are you and I on this earth? We are here not because of random chance, not because of evolution, but because an intelligent designer, God Himself, created us. Everything that God created, He created with a purpose in mind and that includes you and me. We will only be happy, we will only be fulfilled, we will only be prepared for eternity if we live out the purposes that God created us for. As people, we tend to live life as though there will be no end, even though we know that one day ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Does God View Your Life? Why are you and I on this earth? We are here not because of random chance, not because of evolution, but because an intelligent designer, God Himself, created us. Everything that God created, He created with a purpose in mind and that includes you and me. We will only be happy, we will only be fulfilled, we will only be prepared for eternity if we live out the purposes that God created us for. As people, we tend to live life as though there will be no end, even though we know that one day ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You Were Created To Live Forever Currently, we�re in a message series entitled �Why Am I Here?� We�ve been talking about why you and I exist, why we were created by God. It�s an important question, important for how we live our life here on this earth and important for what happens after we die. For you see, this life is simply preparation for eternity, for our life after death. That makes it critically important how we life our lives here and now, for how we live here and now will determine our forever, forever. Yet many ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You Were Created To Live Forever Currently, we�re in a message series entitled �Why Am I Here?� We�ve been talking about why you and I exist, why we were created by God. It�s an important question, important for how we live our life here on this earth and important for what happens after we die. For you see, this life is simply preparation for eternity, for our life after death. That makes it critically important how we life our lives here and now, for how we live here and now will determine our forever, forever. Yet many ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Are You Driven By? Currently we�re in a message series entitled �Why Am I Here?� The Bible tells us that most people in this world don�t know the answer to that question. Jesus describes the journey of people through life as being on one of two roads. The first road is a broad road and most people travel through life on that road, it�s easy to get onto. The second road is a narrow road and the gate to get onto it is hard to find. Here�s how Jesus described the two roads: NIV Matthew 7:13-14 For wide is the ga ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Are You Driven By? Currently we�re in a message series entitled �Why Am I Here?� The Bible tells us that most people in this world don�t know the answer to that question. Jesus describes the journey of people through life as being on one of two roads. The first road is a broad road and most people travel through life on that road, it�s easy to get onto. The second road is a narrow road and the gate to get onto it is hard to find. Here�s how Jesus described the two roads: NIV Matthew 7:13-14 For wide is the ga ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You Were Created For Purpose Currently, we�re in a new message series entitled �Why Am I Here?� This is the most important question of life and in many ways it is the most difficult question of life. Where can you go to find the answer to that question? Can science find the answer to the question �Why Are You Here?� I don�t think so. Can philosophers find the question to that question? They haven�t agreed yet. Can you find the answer to that question by looking deep inside your soul? No, you can�t. The only way you can ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You Were Created For Purpose Currently, we�re in a new message series entitled �Why Am I Here?� This is the most important question of life and in many ways it is the most difficult question of life. Where can you go to find the answer to that question? Can science find the answer to the question �Why Are You Here?� I don�t think so. Can philosophers find the question to that question? They haven�t agreed yet. Can you find the answer to that question by looking deep inside your soul? No, you can�t. The only way you can ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Meaning Of Life Life seems to keep on moving faster and faster. Things are getting more complicated, even as we use more and more inventions designed to simplify life. People are getting stressed out with life, as life just seem to be a whirlwind rushing past. Someone had said, �This is a time when people place more value on success than significance.� Success is a life devoted to the accumulation of things, of prestige, of money and of power. All those things seem to give a person something worthwhile, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesus - The Peace Of God Merry Christmas everyone! What a great day to be in church celebrating the birth of Jesus Christmas on a Sunday. It hasn�t happened since 1994 and won�t happen again until 2011. So, it is a special day and we�re glad you can all be with us here at Full Life.On that first Christmas night, an angel appeared to some shepherds to announce the birth of Jesus. After that angel had given his message, Luke tells us that,NLT Luke 2:13-14 Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast host of others-- the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesus - The Peace Of God Merry Christmas everyone! What a great day to be in church celebrating the birth of Jesus Christmas on a Sunday. It hasn�t happened since 1994 and won�t happen again until 2011. So, it is a special day and we�re glad you can all be with us here at Full Life. On that first Christmas night, an angel appeared to some shepherds to announce the birth of Jesus. After that angel had given his message, Luke tells us that, NLT Luke 2:13-14 Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast host of others-- t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesus - The Reign Of God Well, Christmas is only 7 days away. This year, it falls on a Sunday. That hasn�t happened since 1994. And yes, we will have a Christmas service at Full Life right here at 10 am. What better time to have a Christmas service then on Christmas? Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Jesus, not about trees, not about red suited men with white beards and reindeer, not about gift giving or even about time with your family. The true meaning of Christmas is about Jesus. This year, the contro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Growing In God's Grace A man had a pet snake and he purchased a mouse to use as food for it. He dropped the unsuspecting mouse into the snake�s glass cage where the snake was sleeping on a bed of sawdust. This tiny mouse had a serious problem on his hands, he was in great danger of being swallowed alive. The mouse had to come up with a brilliant plan. What could he do? He quickly set about covering up the snake with sawdust chips until it was completely buried. The mouse couldn�t see the snake anymore and he sa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Following God's Guidance Erik Weihenmayer is blind, yet on May 25, 2001, he reached the peak of Mt. Everest. Erik suffered from a degenerative eye disease, he lost his sight when he was 13, but that didn't stop him. Ninety percent of climbers never make it to the top of Mt Everest, 165 have died trying since 1953, yet Erik succeeded. One of the main reasons Erik made it is that he listened well. He listened to the little bell tied to the back of the climber in front of him, so he would know what direction to go. H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Enjoying God's Word Today we start a new message series called �Growing In God.� Our spiritual lives are often likened to plants in the Bible. A plant needs certain essential ingredients to grow. It needs good soil, the proper nutrients, water and sun. So too, a believer or a person seeking to know more about God needs certain essential elements to grow spiritually in God. In this series, we�ll be focusing on some of these essential things that we need to understand and apply in our lives so that we can live t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lightening Your Load The world is an interesting and sometimes strange place. Some time ago, I read an article about some strange news. Several years ago, the Copenhagen Zoo was very proud of their okapi. You don�t know what an okapi is? Well neither did I, until I read the article. An okapi is a rare mammal from the Congo river basin in Africa, related to the giraffe. One day, the zoo keepers heard some strange sounds coming from a nearby park. Upon closer listening, they discovered the sound was opera perform ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keeping Work In Balance We�re in the middle of a message series called, �God�s Remedy For Stress.� We�ve talked about how God wants us to slow down the pace of our lives so we can really live the way He wants us to. We�ve talked about building margin into our lives, so we have some reserves when inevitable problems come our way. Last week we talked about remembering that loving relationships are what should matter most in our life, relationships with people and a relationship with God.Today, we want to focus on ou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Focusing On Right Priorities Why do we get so stressed out in today's society? Why do our bodies, our emotions, our schedules, our budgets get overloaded. The answer is because we try to do too much. And why do we try to do too much? Because we forget what matters most. Instead of focusing on the few things in life that matter most, the things that really count, that really make a difference, we try to do everything and we get overloaded.Today, we want to remember what matters most.NLT Psalm 39:4 LORD, remind me how br ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Developing Margin In Your Life Each year, the pace of our society the pace of our lifestyles speeds up. The result is that people get on overload in their lives. If that overload continues for too long, they�re going to crash, in one way or another. Here�s some overload stats for you. People now sleep 2 and a half fewer hours each night than people did 100 years ago. The average office worker has 36 hours of work piled up on his desk. We spend 8 months of our lives opening junk mail and two years of our lives playing pho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slowing Down The Pace Today we begin a new message series called �God�s Remedy For Stress.� Stress is defined as �A mentally or emotionally upsetting condition occurring in response to adverse external influences and capable of affecting physical health.� We can learn a few things about stress from this definition. First of all, stress is not good, it negatively affects your physical health. Stress occurs in response Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slowing Down The Pace Today we begin a new message series called �God�s Remedy For Stress.� Stress is defined as �A mentally or emotionally upsetting condition occurring in response to adverse external influences and capable of affecting physical health.� We can learn a few things about stress from this definition. First of all, stress is not good, it negatively affects your physical health. Stress occurs in response to adverse external influences. Some of these influences we can do something about, others we c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Can I Find Power For Life? The horrendous destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast has devastated cities and left many without any electric power, most likely for many months. Without electric power, it�s almost impossible to live or rebuild. Electric power is used for lights, refrigeration, heating, communications and the list goes on and on. Our houses and cities are designed to be run with electric power and we can�t live for very long without it.Just as cities need electricity as their power sour ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Can I Discover Direction? One day a Mom decided to take her three children to an ice skating rink in a unfamiliar part of town. After several wrong turns and stops to ask directions, she finally pulled over to the side of the road and suggested that all of them ask God to help them find the rink. With God�s help, they finally found the rink about an hour late. The next week they got in the car to go skating again and just before they took off, the 5 year old said, �Mom, let�s pray first and save time this week.� Not ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can I Find A Lasting Hope? Most of us like buying new things from time to time. We take pleasure in the appearance of something brand new, it�s perfect, no imperfections. Our purchase might be something big like a new car or something not so big, like a new pair of shoes. However, whatever it is, no matter how carefully we try to take care of it, that new car is going to get a door ding and that new pair of shoes is going to get a scuff mark. When that happens, it kind of pops your bubble because you had hoped you co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can The Truth Change Me? A television crew was filming the devastation caused by Hurricane Andrew in southern Florida. In one scene of damaged and destroyed homes along the coast, there was only one house still standing on its foundation. The reporter approached the owner, who was out cleaning up his yard. "Tell me, sir, why do you think your house is the only one standing? How did you alone in this area manage to escape severe damage from the hurricane?" The man replied, "I built the house myself and I built it ac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Questions For God A little boy came to his father and asked him, �Dad, where is heaven?� His father, engrossed in the evening paper, responded, �Beats me, son.� The boy thought a minute and asked another question, �Dad, why is the earth round?� The Dad answered, �I don�t know.� His son played few more minutes, then asked, �Dad, is there life on other planets?� His father patiently answered, �Nobody knows the answer to that.� Finally, the boy asked his father, �Dad, do you mind me asking you all these que ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Releasing God's Power Of Protection As adults we often laugh at our children�s fears. That noise at night that scares them is simply the creaking of the boards in the house. The monster on the wall is simply a shadow from the clothes hanging on a chair. Yet there are things that we are afraid of as adults, things that are not so simple to explain away.Fear comes when we perceive danger, real or imagined. Worry is simply a form of fear, fear of some danger harming us in the future. Now, the vast majority of the things that we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Releasing God's Power Of Forgiveness We've all been hurt in our lives by other people,may have been by our parents, by friends, by relatives, by employers or by our spouse. Often-times the deepest hurts are by those we are closest too. The ones we really want to love us the most sometimes hurt us the worst. How do you handle it when someone hurts you? Do you get angry, look to get revenge, give the silent treatment, hold a grudge, become bitter or make a vow to never forget?NLT 1 Corinthians 13:5b Love is not irritable, and it ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Releasing God's Power Of Provision Some years ago I was working at Monsanto as a research chemist. My job was to design new research projects to discover herbicides to control weeds. After I worked out the science behind the project, I had to plan what resources would be needed. How much money would be needed for equipment for chemicals for testing? How many people would work on the project? How long would the project last? Then I had to present the proposal to management to see if they would give the resources necessary to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fulfilling God's Purpose As A Father Today is Father's Day. How many think Father's Day was invented by greeting card companies? Not the case. Father's Day was proposed in 1909 by Mrs. John Dodd. Mrs. Dodd wanted to honor her father, William Smart, a Civil War veteran. William Smart was widowed when his wife, Mrs. Dodd's mother, died in childbirth with their sixth child. William raised the newborn and other 5 children by himself on a rural farm in eastern Washington state. Mrs. Dodd wanted to honor the strength and sacrifice o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Releasing God's Power To Others In Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," Ivan endures all the horrors of a Soviet prison camp. One day he is praying with his eyes closed when a fellow prisoner notices him and says with ridicule, "Prayers won't help you get out of here any faster." Opening his eyes, Ivan answers, "I do not pray to get out of prison but to do the will of God." Ivan understood the main point of prayer.When we pray we don't want to miss the point of prayer, because if we miss the po ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Releasing The Power Of Praise Prayer is simply communication with God, two-way communication to be more exact. A human being communicating with the greatest power in the universe, the intelligent designer that created us. And God communicating back to us. This is really the most exciting, the most power-packed activity that one could be involved in. I believe that when we get to heaven, one of the biggest surprises to us will be the revelation of what could have been accomplished through our lives through prayer. The Bi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Can I Be Confident In A Crisis? Currently, we're in a message series entitled �Answers To Tough Questions.� We began the series with a message on how to handle discouragement in our lives. Last week our question got tougher as we discussed how to overcome major problems in our lives. And this week our topic is �How Can I Be Confident In A Crisis?� We've moved from discouragement, to problems, to a crisis.A crisis is a type of life storm that threatens to do great damage to you. Life storms or crisises have a number of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Can I Overcome My Problems? In late July 2002, nine Pennsylvania miners were trapped in the Quecreek mine. They had not been heard from in two days after 50 million gallons of water flooded the mine shaft. However, when a 6-inch air pipe was lowered into the chamber, the miners tapped on the pipe, but now the tapping had stopped. Those 9 miners had a problem of huge proportions, there was no way they could solve it from within the mine.Rescuers began drilling down to the trapped miners, 240 feet below ground, but the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Can I Handle Discouragement? A man stopped to watcha Little League baseball game. He asked one of the youngsters what the score was. The answer was, �We're losing 18-0.� �Well,� said the man, �You don't look discouraged.� �Discouraged?� said the boy. �Why should we be discouraged? We haven't come to bat yet.� Oh, the optimism of youth. Most of us would have packed up and gone home discouraged at a score of 10-0.It's not difficult to get discouraged. Someone has called discouragement the world's deadliest disease. Disco ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God's Encouragement For Mothers Happy Mother's Day! A mother's job description is immense and it's not 9-5, in fact, a mother's job may require her to answer an urgent call in the middle of the night or in the wee hours of the morning. In many homes, a mother is the primary caregiver for the children, caring for physical needs, feeding, giving baths, washing clothes, buying groceries, praying for the children, singing and reading to them, taking them to school activities, church activities and friend's houses. Without eve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Experience Supernatural Change God loves diversity. He loves to see His creation change and grow. He loves to create things fresh and new. At the atomic level, God's palette of 100 or so elements gives rise to a literally infinite number of possibilities and combinations, all with different properties and potential. The universe is filled with stars. A recent estimate of the number of stars visible to modern telescopes was just done. The number of visible stars was estimated at 70 sextillion, that's 70 followed by 22 zer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Experience Supernatural Freedom A pastor decided to use a visual illustration to make a point in his message. He placed four earthworms into four separate jars. The first worm was put into a jar of alcohol. The second worm was put into a jar of cigarette smoke. The third worm was put into a jar of chocolate syrup. The fourth worm was put into a jar of good clean soil. At the conclusion of his message, the pastor reported the following results. The first worm in alcohol � dead. The second worm in cigarette smoke � dead. Th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website