Saturday, November 2, 2024

REMOVE THE DEBRIS

 

remove the debrisAndrea Merrel- The fire took it all.

It started in one shed and quickly jumped to the one beside it. We watched in horror as years’ worth of earthly possessions went up in smoke. Tools. Furniture. Clothes. Antiques. Fall and Christmas decorations. And so much more.

A large portion of our backyard was left in black, sooty ruins. The next day we began picking through the rubble, hoping to find something salvageable. The only thing we found intact was a Bible, barely even singed.

For many days afterward, we lived with the devastation—a constant reminder of what had taken place. It was hard to look at the mess without tears, thinking of what we had lost and wondering if our backyard would ever return to normal.

The clean-up crew came. They loaded up the debris and hauled it away. Then another crew came and cut down over a dozen burned trees. They also ground the stumps. Once again, the debris was loaded up and taken away, leaving the ground smooth and free of any signs of that dreadful fire. With two new sheds in place, it now looks even better than before, as though the fire never happened.

That’s what happens when God forgives our sin and cleanses us from all unrighteousness. He removes all the clutter and debris from our heart and tosses it into the sea of forgetfulness. He washes us, as the Bible says, “white as snow.” He gives us beauty instead of ashes. He turns our mourning into joy and clothes us with a garment of praise. He makes all things new.

That Bible survived a terrible fire when nothing else did. The Word of the living God. Alive and sharper than a two-edged sword. Powerful and eternal. It proved to be a constant reminder of how blessed we were—blessed that no one was hurt and that the fire did not come near our home, the woods behind our home, our chickens, or our motorhome (parked beside the second shed). Things could have turned out so much worse, but God was faithful and merciful.

When life comes at you, leaving a mess in its wake, don’t lose hope. You can always count on God and His Word to remove the debris and make things even better than before.

 "To bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair" (Isaiah 61:3 NIV).

(photo courtesy of author)

Let's pray-

   Father, Andrea Merrel relates how fire took all their possessions one day, jumping from one shed to another. They watched in horror that years' worth of tools, funiture, clothes and many other things went up in smoke.
   Even a large portion of their backyard was left in ruins. The only thing they found intact was a Bible, barely even singed!
   For many days afterward, they lived with the devastation—a constant reminder of what had taken place. The clean-up crew came and hauled the debris away. They  wondered if their backyard would ever return to normal. 
  With two new sheds now in place, they see that things even look better than before the fire happened. 
   That's what happens when God forgives our sin and cleanses us from all unrighteousness. He removes all the clutter and debris from our hearts and tosses it into the sea of forgetfulness, and washes us white as snow! He turns our mourning into joy and clothes us with a garment of praise, making all things new.
   How grateful we are that we're blessed with Your powerful and eternal Word that gives us the revelation of what Christ did at the Cross so many years ago.
   When life comes at us, leaving a mess in its wake, we can always count on You and Your Word to remove the debris and make things even better than before through Christ Jesus our Savior!  Amen.
   

#59 Testimony Michael Evans' report from Ukraine:

   "It was a heartbreaking day of ministry in Ukraine. Today I brought aid to people touched deeply by the torror of war. Some wounds only Jesus can heal, as the heart is the Lord's domain. One family I'll never forget. A single grandmother desperately trying to hold together her family.
   Her son-in-law sick with cancer and her gandchildren sunken-eyed from the killing of their mother in a Russian attack. The home has been completely destroyed. We'e helping them in every way we can, but where we can't reach, the Holy Spirit can. 
   While I prayed for them today, the grandmother received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and a peace came on the family. I will never forget them or this tender moment of God's love."  [From the magazine of the Jerusalem Prayer Team International]


1321-1325 One-line Scriptures for those of you who want to learn some more verses this week- or to review them from when they were first posted- 
 
1321- Ps. 107:22 "And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare his works with rejoicing."
1322- Ps. 16:9 "Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope."
1323- Ps. 16:2a "O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord."
1324- Ezra 10:4 "Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee; we also will be with thee, be of good courage, and do it."
1325- 1 Chron. 28:9b "The LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imginations of the thoughts; if thou seek him, he will be found of thee."


 # 59 Hymn- There's A Green Hill Far Away  

 
    As a small girl, Cecil Frances Humphries (b. Redcross, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1818; Londonderry, Ireland, 1895) wrote poetry in her school's journal. In 1850 she married Rev. William Alexander, who later became the Anglican primate (chief bishop) of Ireland. She showed her concern for disadvantaged people by traveling many miles each day to visit the sick and the poor, providing food, warm clothes, and medical supplies.
   She and her sister also founded a school for the deaf. Alexander was strongly influenced by the Oxford Movement and by John Keble's Christian Year. Her first book of poetry, Verses for Seasons, was a "Christian Year" for children. She wrote hymns based on the Apostles' Creed, baptism, the Lord's Supper, the Ten Commandments, and prayer, writing in simple language for children. Her more than four hundred hymn texts were published in Verses from the Holy Scripture (1846), Hymns for Little Children (1848), and Hymns Descriptive and Devotional (1858).



 Some encouraging words-

   A pastor cannot lead his people higher that he is himself. It is his duty to train his people to be people of prayer, if he desires to have God's blessing on his work. It is nothing but the sin of prayerlessness that is the cause of the lack of a powerful spiritual life in anyone of us and our churches!


CHURCH NOTES:

   - Christ is superior to Moses and the angels. 
Jesus is the Redeemer. He has finished what the Father had instructed Him to do for mankind! He has become heir of all things. Everything belongs to Him. He is the Source of life. We're to become His images through the power of His Word. We're to serve and reflect Him, and to stay true!


Upcoming posts:

11/9-  GOD'S REST AND RENEWAL- Melissa Meek
16th- WHO YOU ARE IN CHRIST JESUS- Joyce Meyers
23rd- LIFT UP THE WORD, LIGHT UP THE WORLD- Kathy Branzell



The North Country Christian Fellowship Center Churches,

located in the St. Lawrence county of NY,

broadcast their Sunday services at 10 or 10:15

You can view past services too.

Sermon listing:https://www.cfconline.org/sermon-library 



Saturday, October 26, 2024

THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

 

    Rich Carmicheal- The Holy Spirit is the source of life, joy, peace and hope. Jesus gives this beautiful word picture of the Spirit's presence within us: " 'If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.' But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, who those believing in Him would receive . . . " (John 7:37-39).

   Similarly, Isaiah prophesied about the day "the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is counted as a forest" (Is. 32:15) Do we not need and long for such overflowing life, such fruitfulness in our lives?   

   And what about the need for joy and peace in these difficult days? The fruit of the Spirit includes joy and peace (Gal. 5:22), and the kingdom of God is "righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit" (Rom. 14:17).

   Even in the midst of much affliction, we can be filled with the "joy of the Holy Spirit" (1 Thess. 1:6). How wonderful it is that the God of hope is able to fill us "with all joy and peace in believing, that [we] may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit"! (Rom. 15:13).

   The Holy Spirit fills us with the love of God. 

   In a time when the love of many is growing cold (Matt. 24:12), how we need the Holy Spirit to keep pouring out God's love into our hearts (Rom.5:5), and to bear the fruit of love in our lives (Gal. 5:22).

   Only by the enabling of the Holy Spirit and "through the love of the Spirit" (Rom. 15:30) are we able to love and minister to others. Oh that we may be known for our "love in the Spirit"! (Col. 1:8).

   The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of holiness (Rom. 1:4). 

   In these last days in which sin and lawlessness abound (Matt.24:12; 2 Tim. 3:1-4), how grateful we can be for the sanctifying work of the Spirit in our lives! (2 Thes. 2:13).

   As we walk in Him, we "shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh" (Gal 5:16), but rather by Him we "put to death the deeds of the body" (Rom. 8:13). He renews us (Titus 3:5) and strengthens us with might in the inner man (Eph. 3:16). By His glorious ministry we are being transformed into the likeness of the Lord! (2 Cor. 3:18).

   The Holy Spirit helps in our weaknesses and in prayer.

   ". . . We do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered" (Rom. 8:26). We are able to pray "always with all prayer and supplicaiton in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints" (Eph. 6:18).

   As Jude points out, our prayer in the Spirit is vital to our faith and life with God: 

   "But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life" (Jude 20-21).

   The Holy Spirit directs our lives and equips and empowers us for ministry.

   We are absolutely dependent upon the leading of the Spirit, for only those led of the Spirit are the children of God (Rom. 8:14). What an unbelievable blessing it is to "live in the Sprit" and "walk in the Spirit" (Gal. 5:25), and to minister based on the gifts and calling entrusted to us by the Spirit! (1 Cor. 12:11; Acts 13:2; 20:28).

   Likewise, what a privilege it is to serve in the newness of the Spirit (Rom. 7: 6) and by the empowering of the Spirit! (1 Cor. 2:4; 1 Thes. 1:5; 1 Peter. 1:12).

By Rich CarmichealJuly/August 2024 Herald of His Coming Newspaper, (pg 2)


Let's pray-

    Father, the Spirit of Jesus is our Source of life, joy, peace and hope. This gives us a beautiful word picture of His presence within us.
    Isaiah prophesied that the day would come that You would pour out this overflowing life. We need and long for such life to dwell within us today!
   As this includes joy and peace, we ask for Your righteousness too, to flow from us through these difficult days, as folks' godly love is growing cold. 
   We need the Holy Spirit to keep pouring out Your love into our hearts, so we can bear the fruit of love.
   As we walk in Jesus, we will learn to not fulfill the lust of flesh, but by Him, put to death the deeds of our bodies. He renews and strengthens us with might in our inner man daily as His ministry transforms us into His likeness.
   Your Word instructs us to pray in the Spirit, as we simply don't know what we should pray for. Help us have the perseverance and supplication that's needed! 
   May we build ourselves up in our most holy faith in the heavenly language, as we continue to pray for You to extend mercy to those we're prayinig for.
   In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.


#58  Words from Mary Carothers:

   "When we abide in Jesus (see John 15), when we hide God's Word in our hearts (see Proverbs 3), when we obey the Lord (see Job 36:11), walking in the Spirit (see Galatians 5:25), God has told us we would tread upon and trample the counterfiet lion (see Psalm 91). He will give us authority over all the power of the enemy (see Luke 10:19).  

   Let's remember what the Lord tells us in Job 4:10: The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken. How was this done? Jesus accomplished this for us on Calvary. Our enemy - the counterfeit lion- has been defeated by the true lion 
of the tribe of Judah. Let us therefore go forth as more than conquerors in Christ who loves us" (see Romans 8:37).    [Taken from PRAISE NEWS for September]
 

1316-1320 One-line Scriptures for those of you who want to learn some more verses this week- or to review them from when they were first posted- 
 
1316- Ps. 9:11b "Declare among the people his doings."
1317- Ps. 27:9b "Thou hast been my help; leave me not; neither forsake me, O God of my salvation."
1318- Jer. 18:11c "Make your ways and doings good."
1319- Ps. 150:1 "Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power."
1320- Ps. 22:4 "Our fathers trusted in thee; they trusted and thou didst deliver them."


 #58 Hymn- Take My Life, and Let It Be Consecrated
 
The information about this song,  is taken from the book by Robert J. MorganTHEN SINGS MY SOUL   (pg. 191)

   Although hymnist Frances Hargal, 36, had served the Lord for years, she felt something was missing in her Christian experience. After reading "All for Jesus," which stressed the importance of making Christ the King of every corner and cubicle of one's life, she soon thereafter made a fresh and complete consecration of herself to Christ.
   After leading several to Christ one night, too excited to sleep, she wrote this song, Take My life and Let It Be


 Some encouraging words-

   God wants us to live in community with others (church fellowship), loving and being loved, giving and receiving forgiveness, enjoying one another and bearing with one another's weaknesses (Gal. 6:1-3).

Church notes: 

   We're to hold fast to our salvation! God is trustworthy, as He has vowed His committment to us by His Own name! We're to hold onto Jesus as our Anchor in heaven! We're to have confidence in the salvation that He provided! He is the foundation for everything! We're to live as though we could lose our salvation. 

So HOLD FAST at all costs!
 

Upcoming posts:

11/2- REMOVE THE DEBRIS- Andrea Merrel
9th-   GOD'S REST AND RENEWAL- Melissa Meek
16th- WHO YOU ARE IN CHRIST JESUS- Joyce Meyers  


The North Country Christian Fellowship Center Churches,

located in the St. Lawrence county of NY,

broadcast their Sunday services at 10 or 10:15

You can view past services too.

Sermon listing:https://www.cfconline.org/sermon-library 



Saturday, October 19, 2024

SEEING BY FAITH

 

 Katara Patton-  "During my morning walk, the sun hit the waters of Lake Michigan at a perfect angle to produce a stunning view. I asked my friend to stop and wait for me as I positioned my camera to take a pic. (Lake Michigan)

   Because of the position of the sun, I couldn't see the imeage on my phone's screed before I snapped the shot. But having done this before, I sensed it would be a great picture. I told my friend, 'We can't see it now, but pictues like this always come out good.'

   Walking by faith through this life is often like taking that pictue. You can't always see the details on the screen, but that doesn't mean the stunning picture isn't there.

   You don't always see God working, but you can trust that He's there. As the writer of Hebrews penned, 'Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see' (11:1). By faith we place our confidence and assurance in God — especially when we can't see or understand what He's doing.

   With faith, not seeing doesn't prevent us from 'taking the shot.' It just might make us pray more and seek God's direction. We can also rely on knowing what's happened in the past as others have walked by faith (vv.4-12) as well as through our own stories. What God has done before, He can do again.

   Heavenly Father, thank You for all the ways You've provided for me in the past. Help me to walk by faith even if I can't see all You're doing." Our prayer

# 57 QUOTE - From Merlin R. Carothers book, Power in Praise.

   "When we fully entrust an evil situation to God, thanking and praising Him for it, the power of God will be released. His power will overcome the plan of the evil inherent in that situation, transforming it to fit with the perfect plan of God. we may not understand God's plan or recognize it as good, but when we praise Him for it, we release His power to work in the situation for our good."


1311-1315 One-line Scriptures for those of you who want to learn some more verses this week- or to review them from when they were first posted- 
 
1311- Is. 57:19a "I create the fruit of the lips."
1312- Is. 63:4a "For the day of vengeance is in mine heart."
1313- Pro. 14:22b "Mercy and Truth shall be to them that devise good."
1314- Ps. 42:11b "Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the strength of 
          my countenance, and my God."
1315- Ps. 142:7c "Thou shalt deal boutifully with me."


 #57 Hymn- I Would Be True 



The hymn "I Would Be True" is based on a poem written by Howard Walter, an American professor who taught English in Japen. Reverend Walter’s creed included the guiding principles he sought to live his life by—principles for daily living that he learned as a young child. His creed affirmed his desire to be someone God and others could count on. Dependability is “fulfilling what I consented to do even if it means unexpected sacrifice.” Reverend Walter lived with the assurance that God would enable him to be “true,” “pure,” “strong,” and “brave.” He firmly believed that, as he depended on God to work in his life and help him live by his creed, he could fulfill the tasks he consented to do, and others could depend upon him." 

 Some encouraging words-

   When Jesus comes into our lives, we are made brand-new inside, and that change is being worked from the inside to the outside, where everyone can see the amazing work God has done in us. We must be patient. 


Upcoming posts:

10/26- THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT- Rich Carmicheal
11/2-    LOVE LIKE BLAZING FIRE- Winn Collier
9th-     MIND BLOWING TEACHING- Tom Felten


The North Country Christian Fellowship Center Churches,

located in the St. Lawrence county of NY,

broadcast their Sunday services at 10 or 10:15

You can view past services too.

Sermon listing:https://www.cfconline.org/sermon-library 



Saturday, October 12, 2024

SELF TALK

 

   Dianne Neal Matthews-  "I recently read an article in a psychology magazine that focused on self-talk, that inner voice most of us have that offers a running commentary throughout the day.

   This combination of conscious thoughts and subconscious beliefs helps our brain interpret and process our experiences. Positive, encouraging self-talk can help people combat fear and grow in confidence.

   Negative self-talk can lead people into depression, convincing them that they are a failure and that their situation will never improve. Like many people, I tend to hear the latter.

   Centuries ago, the Psalm writers knew how to correct unhelpful self-talk. They often began by venting negative emotions but then deliberately shifted their focus. They rehearsed God's past goodness and His promises for the future, often ending by stating an intention to trust and praise God.

   Like the psalmists, I can change my self-talk and change my perspective. After admittinig my fear, disappointment, or anger in prayer, I can remind myself that thanks to Jesus, I am forgiven, free, protected, and unconditionally loved.

   I don't have to let negative thoughts and feelings dictate my mood; I can choose to focus on truths that uplift my soul and give myself something good to talk about."

Let's pray-

     Father help me watch for negative self-talk, and be prepared to replace each of those thoughts with a Bible verse or statement that expresses what Jesus thinks about me. I ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.

#56- Quote-

   "Is it not sad that our thoughts about the Holy Spirit are often coupled with grief and self-reproach? He bears the name of Comforter, and He is given to lead us to find in Christ our main delight and joy. There is something still more sad, though. He who dwells within us to comfort us is often grieved by us because we will not permit Him to accomplish His work of love. What a course of inexpressible pain to the Holy Spirit is all this prayerlessness in the church!" 
(p. 47 of Andrew Murray's book, The PRAYER LIFE, Persevering in Prayer)
 

1306-1310 One-line Scriptures for those of you who want to learn some more verses this week- or to review them from when they were first posted- 
 
1306- Is. 58:9a "Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, 
           and he shall say, Here I am."
1307- Pro. 4:10a "Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings."
1308- Ecc. 12:1a "Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth."
1309- Ecc. 5:6a "Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin."
1310- Jer. 17:18b "Let me not be dismayed."


 #56 Hymn- Come, Ye Thankful People, Come 

 The story behind this song:

  "In the fall of 1844, while Henry Alford was at Wymeswold, his first charge, the people of this hamlet decided to have a festival, rejoicing in the abundant harvest already gathered into their barns.

   For this particular occasion Alford wrote this song which has been sung, perhaps millions of times during Thanksgiving celebrations.

   After you sing this inspiring song, rededicate yourself to a life of thankfulness."


 Some encouraging words-

  "If the Church does not struggle in prayer for lost souls, the Spirit does not pursue them. If the Spirit does not pursue and draw people to God, then they will be lost. Yet, the Spirit can and will pursue; when the church does the work of prayer. He can and will pursue any person, who has not hardened his heart, to come to Christ." 
(p.65) DESTINED FOR THE THRONE, by Paul E. Bellheimer)


Upcoming posts:

19th-  WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE- Bill Crowder
 26th- THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT- Rich Carmicheal
11/2-   LOVE LIKE BLAZING FIRE- Winn Collier



The North Country Christian Fellowship Center Churches,

located in the St. Lawrence county of NY,

broadcast their Sunday services at 10 or 10:15

You can view past services too.

Sermon listing:https://www.cfconline.org/sermon-library 



Saturday, October 5, 2024

HOW DO YOU LOVE GOD?

  

 Dave Butts-  Living a life of obedience to the Word, confession and repentance from sin, and walking in holiness will all be demonstrations of our love for God. 

   Without in any way detracting from those parts of our Christian life, I would like to suggest one other very critical part of what it means to love God. It is very simple and so very human. To love God means to want to be with Him.

   Isn't that our human tendency? When we love someone, we find ourselves attracted to them. We want to spend time with them.

   In the Old Testament, David expressed that some kind of desire to be with God:

"One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple" (Ps. 27:4).

   This is the cry of a lovesick heart. "God I want to be with You. Wherever You are, that is where I want to be." This desire to be with God is written of again and again in the Psalms. Psalm 84 is a plea to live in the presence of God:

"How lovely is Your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God" (Ps. 84:1-2).

   The good news for us, as Christians, is that we do not have to journey to Jerusalem or anywhere else to be with the Lord. He has come to make His home with us.

   Jesus said, speaking of Himself and his Father, ". . . We will come to him (the one who loves Him) and make our home with him . . ." (John 14:23). The problem that most of us have on a daily basis is to simply be aware of the Lord's abiding presence.

   The lack of awareness is typically a lack of love. Because we are not passionate about our relationship with God . . . because we allow our things or other people to crowd our schedules . . . we forget the most amazing fact in the universe: God Himself has come to take up residence within us.

   Cultivating a love relationship with God is in some ways like any other relationship. . . it takes time. Time to spend with Him . . . listening, loving, enjoying His presence . . . It will involve changing how we view prayer and time in the Word.

   Rather than seeing prayer as a way of getting things from God, we begin to see it as time spent in His presence. Instead of reading the Bible for insight into our lives (though that is valuable), we begin to see our Bible as a meeting place with God.

   God loves us so very much that He endured the Cross so that we might spend eternity with Him. He wants us WITH Him. Our love response to Him will involve cultivating a lifelong, passionate desire to be with HIm — not just some day in heaven, but every day He gives us on this earth.

[Dave Butts (1953-2022) His message condensed.] 

Let's pray-

"Bless me, heavenly Father
   forgive my erring  ways,
Grant me strength to serve Thee,
   put purpose in my days.
Give me understanding
   enough to make me kind
So I may judge all people
   with my heart and not my mind.
And teach me to be patient
   in everything I do,
Content to trust Your wisdom
   and to follow after You.
And help me when I falter
   and hear me when I pray
And recieve me in Thy kingdom
   to dwell with Thee some day."

My Daily Prayer 



 
1301-1305 One-line Scriptures for those of you who want to learn some more verses this week- or to review them from when they were first posted- 
 
1301- Ez. 7:4b "And ye shall know that I am the LORD."
1302- Ps. 104:30a "Thou sendests forth thy spirit, they are created."
1303- Neh. 13:27a "Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil?
1304- Ps. 60:6 "God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice."
1305- 1 Kings 8:42a "For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, 
          and of thy outstretched arm."


 #55  Hymn- O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go

 
Author: George Matheson (1882) "It was composed with extreme rapidity; it seemed to me that its construction occupied only a few minutes, and I felt myself rather in the position of one who was being dictated to than of an original artist.  I was suffering from extreme mental distress, and the hymn was the fruit of pain."


 Some encouraging words-

  "The only time a person can offer the sacrifice of praise is when things seem to be going wrong, for it is only then we are asked to die to our own opinion, choices and common sense."  (p. 124 of DESTINED FOR THE THRONE, by Paul E. Billheimer)


Upcoming posts:

10/12- SEARCH ME O GOD- Lois J. Stucky
19th-  WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE- Bill Crowder
26th-  THE GLORIOUS MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT- Rich Carmicheal


The North Country Christian Fellowship Center Churches,

located in the St. Lawrence county of NY,

broadcast their Sunday services at 10 or 10:15

You can view past services too.

Sermon listing:https://www.cfconline.org/sermon-library