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Speaker: Minister Tabitha PersonDr Kevin G. Swann, PastorIvy Baptist Church50 Maple AveNewport News, VA 23607www.ivybaptistchurch.orgTwitter @ivybaptistFin...
- 27 min
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- Ivy Baptist Church
- Introduction
- Everyone Is Training For Something
- Goal: to Be Faithful Followers of Christ Forever, But What Is “Faith?”
- Belief That vs. Belief in
- Divine Patron-Client Relationship
- Faithful to Our Savior and Lord
- Run to Win
- Training For Ancient Games Was Not A Game
- Spiritual Diet
- You Are What You Eat
Good afternoon. My brothers and sisters, it is truly an honor to stand before you humbly this Youth Sunday. It’s especially a blessing to see my young brothers and sisters leading us in worship today – trainingto become more effective ministers of the Gospel – as we all should be. Can we give them another round of applause? You know not too long ag...
What are we training for? It seems to me that – whether we realize it or not – everyone is training for something. Correct me if I’m wrong, but to be a good praise dancer, don’t you have to make it a habit of practicing your routines? To be a good musician, don’t you have to make it a habit to practicing your rhythms and notes? To be a good choir, ...
If we profess that Jesus is Lord, our goal should be to be faithful to our Lord forever. But what does it mean to be “faithful” or “have faith?” It can be tempting to let the world define what “faith” really means. Mark Twain famously wrote that faith is “believing what you know ain’t so.” Others think faith is believing “blindly” without evidence....
One of my favorite Christian authors tells a helpful and true story:1A man named Jacob Stevens had been in prison for assault and was now out on parole. One night, Officer Mark Walker sees Stevens behind the wheel of a car that is swerving all over the road. When the policeman pulls him over, he detects the smell of alcohol, but he does not detect ...
Don’t you hate when you do someone a favor and they turn around and disrespect you? How many parents have used the line, “After everything I’ve done for you, this is how you’re going to treat me?” Don’t we hate when people are ungrateful? [The following is very similar material first written about in the post entitled “Grace” & “Faith” | Gifts Have...
My brothers and sisters, we cannot accept Jesus as our Savior but deny Jesus as our Lord. To profess that “Jesus is Lord” means that we are not the “masters of our fates” or the “captains of our souls,” it means that we cannot live however we want, it means that we are not the lords of our lives (cf. Rom 12:1-2, 2 Cor 5:15). Culture says, “do what ...
Spiritually, the church in city of Corinth was out of shape. So, Paul is urging them to practice self-discipline while putting others before themselves, in order to be the most effective ministers of the Gospel as possible. In doing so, He uses athletic metaphors that would be very familiar to them, to get them to focus on their spiritual fitness. ...
In the first half of verse 25, we read “Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training (NIV).” A more literal translation is “Everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything.” Now in the ancient Greco-Roman world, there were four sacred athletic games. The most famous of these games was, of course, the Olympic Games. The Ol...
How might this apply to us today? How can we apply Paul’s metaphor concerning godly diet and exercise? It seems to me that, concerning our spiritual diet, we have to be careful about what we feed our souls. Can someone truly call themselves a vegetarian if they always eat meat? Can I truly say I am trying to be healthy if I am always eating junk fo...
As the old saying goes: “you are what you eat.” It seems that the things that we consume can influence our conduct. For example, in 2015, the Duke Men’s Basketball Team won the NCAA national championship. Several guys on the team had a certain hairstyle that many hadn’t seen before. They would have their hair longer and curlier on top, but shorter ...
Aug 11, 2021 · What do you think the prize is based on what Paul has discussed in 1 Corinthians 9? Why are Christian unity and cross cultural witness of the gospel challenging and how can surrendering our rights help?
Jul 12, 2015 · And in truth, if you have received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, then His blood has been applied to your life. You’re involved now. Think of all He’s done for you; your sins have been forgiven, you have eternal life, God is now your Father. Can you not run this race called life in thanks to Him?
Aftershock - Introduction. Do you not know that in a race all the runners run [their very best to win], but only one receives the prize? Run [your race] in such a way that you may seize the prize and make it yours! Now every at.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a ... Read verse in New International Version
