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2015.11.22 Monsoon Management In Marriage

Pastor Dr. Larry Warkentin - "Monsoon Management In Marriage"

Marriage Series Part 5

Scripture Reading:

Mathew 7:24-27

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2015.11.15 God, Sex And You

Pastor Dr. Larry Warkentin - "God, Sex And You"

Marriage Series Part 4

Scripture Reading:

1 Corrinthians 7:7-23

Ephesians 5:22-23

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2015.11.08 Parable Of The Sower

November 8th, 2015

Cremona Congregational Church Sunday School - "Parable Of The Sower"

Scripture:

Matthew 5:10 New International Version (NIV)

10 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,

     for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 6:24 New International Version (NIV)

24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot        serve both God and money.

Matthew 9:36-37 New International Version (NIV)

36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said        to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.

2015.11.01 Beauty Culture For Brides

November 1st, 2015

Pastor Dr. Larry Warkentin - "Beauty Culture For Brides"

Scripture Reading:

Proverbs 31:10-31  New International Version (NIV)

10 A wife of noble character who can find?

     She is worth far more than rubies.

11 Her husband has full confidence in her

     and lacks nothing of value.

12 She brings him good, not harm,

     all the days of her life.

13 She selects wool and flax

     and works with eager hands.

14 She is like the merchant ships,

     bringing her food from afar.

15 She gets up while it is still night;

     she provides food for her family

     and portions for her female servants.

16 She considers a field and buys it;

     out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.

17 She sets about her work vigorously;

     her arms are strong for her tasks.

18 She sees that her trading is profitable,

     and her lamp does not go out at night.

19 In her hand she holds the distaff

     and grasps the spindle with her fingers.

20 She opens her arms to the poor

     and extends her hands to the needy.

21 When it snows, she has no fear for her household;

     for all of them are clothed in scarlet.

22 She makes coverings for her bed;

     she is clothed in fine linen and purple.

23 Her husband is respected at the city gate,

     where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.

24 She makes linen garments and sells them,

     and supplies the merchants with sashes.

25 She is clothed with strength and dignity;

     she can laugh at the days to come.

26 She speaks with wisdom,

     and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

27 She watches over the affairs of her household

     and does not eat the bread of idleness.

28 Her children arise and call her blessed;

     her husband also, and he praises her:

29 “Many women do noble things,

     but you surpass them all.”

30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;

    but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

31 Honor her for all that her hands have done,

    and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.

2015.10.25 Grooming The Groom

October 25th, 2015

Pastor Dr. Larry Warkentin - "Grooming The Groom"

Scripture Reading:

Ephesians 4 New International Version (NIV)

4 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

7 But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. 8 This is why it says:

“When he ascended on high,

    he took many captives

    and gave gifts to his people.”

9 (What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? 10 He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) 11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. 19 Having lost all sensitivity,they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.

20 That, however, is not the way of life you learned 21 when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

25 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body. 26 “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27 and do not give the devil a foothold. 28 Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.

29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

2015.10.18 Restoring Your Marital Passion

October 18th, 2015

Pastor Dr. Larry Warkentin - "Restoring Your Marital Passion"

Scripture Reading:

1 Corinthians 13 New International Version (NIV)

13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

 

Revelation 2:4-5 New International Version (NIV)

4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.5 Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

 

2015.10.11 The March Of Triumph

October 11th, 2015

Pastor Dr. Larry Warkentin - "The March Of Triumph"

Scripture Reading:

Romans 8:28-39New International Version (NIV)

28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[b]

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[c] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Corinthians 2:14-17New International Version (NIV)

14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. 15 For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 16 To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task? 17 Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.

Some Things Never Change

October 4th, 2015

Reg Graves - "Some Things Never Change"

Scripture Reading: Malachi 3:6

6 “I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.

2015.09.27.Big Things Are Afoot (And You Are Included)

September 27th, 2015

Don McNaughton - "Big Things Are Afoot (And You Are Included)"

Scripture Reading: John 17:1-11

2015.09.20 Growing Pains

September 20th, 2015

Pastor Dr. Larry Warkentin - "Growing Pains"

Scripture Reading:  Acts 2:42-47, Revelation 7:9-17