ronny August 26th, 2008
Trust and ObeyAugust 26, 2008
Last Sunday was an awesome day. As God spoke to my heart and I shared with you, I felt an unusual presence of God moving in Palmetto Shores. Then, in our devotional this week which underscored the message from Sunday. We read 1 Samuel 26 where David had a chance for revenge after Saul tried to kill him and all David did was cut off a corner of Saul’s robe. Later while Saul slept, one of David’s men said, “God has put your enemy in your grasp.” Again David refused. Later he told Saul, “God put your life in my hands today, but I wasn’t willing to lift a finger against God’s anointed.” David didn’t see Saul the enemy, he saw Saul the anointed — God’s property. Max Lucado writes, “A Rottweiler attacked our puppy at a kennel, leaving her with gashes and a dangling ear. I wrote to the dog’s owner urging him to put the dog to sleep. But when I showed the letter to the kennel owner she begged me to reconsider. ‘What that dog did was horrible, but I’m still training him and I’m not finished with him yet.’” God would say the same about the person who attacked you. “What he did was inexcusable, but I’m not finished with him yet.”
Are you keeping track of old scores? Don’t do it! God said, “Don’t insist on getting even, that’s not for you…I’ll take care of it.” By seeking revenge you’re saying, “God, you’re not handling things properly, not punishing them sufficiently, not moving fast enough.” Dick Innes said: “To be hurt without forgiving, crushed without becoming more caring, suffer without growing more sensitive, makes suffering senseless, futile, a tragic loss, the greatest waste of all.” Make Jesus your example; “When he suffered, he didn’t make…threats but left everything to the one who judges fairly.”
I look forward to continuing this series Sunday. Thanks for your prayers as we move forward. Blessings, Ronny
richard August 3rd, 2008
EXTREME HOME TAKEOVER
BUILDING A SOLID LIFE
Matthew 6;33 “Seek first the kingdom of God [put Him first in every area of my life] and all these other things shall be added unto you.”
The divorce rate in America is now one out of every three marriages. But Harvard University did a study: marriages where the wedding is in a church service, the divorce rate is one out of fifty marriages. In marriages where they’re married in a Christian ceremony and they go to church every week, read the Bible and pray together the divorce rate is one out of 1,105 marriages. Would you say that’s a little different than one out of three? Put God first.
I’m going to give you a way to divorce-proof your marriage. Put
God first in your marriage, in your family, and you’ll see tremendous benefits. Continue Reading »
richard July 28th, 2008
EXTREME HOME TAKEOVER
IN THE BEDROOM
A WORD CONCERNING SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP
We live in a world that is filled with much disinformation about human sexuality.
There is no more appropriate place than the church to look at what God’s Word says about this topic.
I’d rather you leave here a little red-faced, knowing the truth than to live your life having only heard the lies of the devil and as a result make mistakes that could have easily been avoided.
Therefore, we are going to look at the married couple’s sexual relationship as it is discussed in the Bible.
1 Corinthians 7:1-5 Continue Reading »
keith July 20th, 2008
EXTREME HOME TAKEOVER
FOR THE CHRISTIAN HELPMATE
Eph. 5:22-23 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
GOD’S PLAN FOR THE CHRISTIAN HELPMATE
Paul gives three words to the Christian wife that will go along way toward producing the desired results in the home. Continue Reading »
keith July 14th, 2008
Extreme Home Takeover
Starts with the Head of the House
Eph. 5:22-33
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, people have never hated their own bodies, but they feed and care for them, just as Christ does the church for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Continue Reading »
ronny July 6th, 2008
“YOU ARE IMPORTANT
WHEREVER YOU ARE”
Summer is such an important time, especially for life at the beach. I understand that many of you make your living for the entire year during the tourist months. In addition to our work, most of us try to find some time to get away or at least intentionally change our pace for some time during the summer. I also understand that life as a resident of this area is changing along with most of our culture. The price of fuel is changing upward. This is forcing us to think about how to compensate in the way we travel and the way we pay for our travel. Transporting food and work supplies costs more which is driving out of pocket costs for our basics upward, so we have to think more about servicing our need to eat and even work more intentionally than at any time in my life. And on we could go. It’s a great time to live but as in every generation it’s a challenging time to live.
For whatever reason, I have not seen some of you for a while and I miss you. Some of you have good reasons for being away from PSC. I understand. I have been away more than usual myself and it’s been good for me and it will be good for you. Feel free to email me or leave a comment at the end of this blog to bring me up to date on your journey.
This week, I want to challenge you to do three things. 1. Keep living in God’s Word. 2. Keep inviting people to PSC. 3. Keep asking God to use you wherever you are. You are important wherever you are! Even though I have not been preaching this month, I have invited people each week to our church and guess what, they came! The same will happen for you as well. Remember, church happens most effectively where you are Monday through Friday in your normal pattern of life. The best of our days are the rest of our days! Ronny
keith June 30th, 2008
Extreme Home Takeover
In the Kids Room
Deut. 6:1-9
1 These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. 3 Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you. 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Continue Reading »
keith June 24th, 2008
EXTREME HOME TAKEOVER STARTS WITH THE FOUNDATION
THE FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG FAMILY
Exodus 20:2-17
For years we have been in a values vacuum. We’ve been in a permissive society
where basically, out of the 60s, anything goes and now we’re reaping the
results. Every 30 seconds there is a divorce in America. Every fourth child
born in America is born to an unwed mother. AIDS is an epidemic. Everybody
says we need to get back to family values but nobody is defining them.
People say, “We’ve got to get back to traditional family values. Continue Reading »
ronny April 1st, 2008
“What On Earth Are We Here For?”
BETTER TOGETHER, Part 1 of 8
Ronny Byrd
March 30, 2008
“Together you are the body of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 12:27
Why do we need each other?
1. We fellowship better together.
“You must learn to be considerate of one another cultivating life in common.”
1 Corinthians 1:10
4 levels of fellowship:
• Socializing together
• Studying together
• Serving together
• Suffering together Continue Reading »
ronny March 23rd, 2008
“God’s Offer to You”
HAPPY EASTER
March 23, 2008
Ronny Byrd
“He is not here for He is risen.” Matthew 28:6
We live in the midst of confusion:
Everywhere we turn today, people are living in confusion. Almost every area of life is confused. Continue Reading »
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