Sermon Outline – OT – The Amplified Bible

Posted on February 13, 2016 by Werner Dekarski

THE CROSS

“Thus says the Lord:

Jeremiah 21:8

Intr.:

Behold, I set before you

A. the way of life and

B. the way of death.”

End:

Nature or the Creator of Nature?

Posted on February 13, 2016 by Werner Dekarski

“Fostering relationships with nature,” is the article in the paper called. (Northern Advocate, Friday, February 12, 2016)

Reading that I am wide awake and I am going to tell you why.

BAY OF ISLANDS:

The Collins Concise Dictionary tells me this about nature:

There is the physical life that is controlled by man, and there is the physical life that is not controlled by man. I am learning that the whole system of existence, forces, and events of all physical life that is not controlled by man is called Nature. Plant and animal life is also called Nature.

Yes, I am all for “fostering relationships with nature,” but I am more for fostering a relationship with the creator of nature.

What does it say in the first book of the Bible at the beginning? There we read, “IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.”

THE GORILLA

Posted on February 13, 2016 by Werner Dekarski

Uncle Ernie, who was one of my teachers at Bible school – he is now with the Lord – used to tell stories in his sermons.

The following illustrates what happens when we try to be someone we are not:

A man in California was looking for a job and inquired at a zoo. He was told that the gorilla of the zoo had died and needed to be replaced. He was asked, “Are you willing to take the role of the gorilla?” “Sure,” the man said and put on the gorilla costume.

He scratched himself as all apes do, and swung himself from one branch to the other.

But one day he lost his balance and ended up in the enclosure of the lions.

The lion hissed at him and the gorilla cried, “Help me! Help me!” Then the lion said, “Shut up, or both of us will be without a job.”

We are only sinners, who are saved by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I surely like that image!

“One Degree”

Posted on February 13, 2016 by Werner Dekarski

Auckland Harbour

“If you alter the course of ship by even one degree, you end up in a different place.

By changing the course of a young person’s life by even one degree, they too will set off confidently, on a different voyage.” – Tessa Duder

That makes me think of the almost 25 years in Kaikohe, where we lived and where I taught the Bible not only in Kaikohe, but also in the surrounding schools.

We had also seminars, mainly in Kerikeri, to train people to go into the schools with the Bible.