Sermon by Dr. Robert Lewis

9/24/2000

Our opponent is prosperity.

• The danger prosperity brings:
  • Pride - the complete anti-God state of mind.
  • Forgetfulness - forget about God.
  • Deceit - makes temporal and eternal things look the same.
  • Fruitlessness
  • Hoarding - the more we have, the less we give.
  • Pain - people who hurt aren't happy.
• The call to balance
  • Imbalance perspectives:
    • Become Poor - voluntary self-imposed
    • Get Rich - don't let the wealth replace Jesus.
  • A balanced perspective is staying focused and cultivate generosity.
• How to maintain balance and "win gold":
  • Recognize that prosperity makes godly living harder, not easier.
  • Know that discipline must replace what desperation once demanded.
  • Invest in good works and expect life's best.
  • Always have an accountability system.
  • Keep thinking about meeting God for an accounting of all you've been give, because one day you will.

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Sermon by Dr. Robert Lewis

8/27/2000

Hear stories of life change from the church body.

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Sermon by Dr. Robert Lewis

7/23/2000

• Lessons learned from this series:
  • It has reminded us to stay honest.
  • it has called us to be humbler.
  • it has helped us to remain hopeful.
• The eighth step:
  • Yield myself to God to bring this good news of freedom to others, both by my example and my words.
• Why God allows pain:
  • Pain is the hard reality that comes with free will.
  • Pain is often used by God to get my attention.
  • Pain teaches me I must depend on Him.
  • Pain can give me a ministry to others.
• Three things we have learned from every story shared in this series:
  • My journey to freedom starts with choice.
  • My journey to freedom is established through a specific process.
  • My journey to freedom is completed when I reinvest it to help others.

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