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How to Love Your Pastor
by Rex Yancey
It is a joy to be a part of this pastor installation service. I enjoyed my ministry here and did my best to prepare you for this special time. I had the opportunity to know several pastor's at Belleview Baptist Church in Memphis. I remember Ramsey Pollard who followed Dr. R. G. Lee. He told one pastor several years ago, ''After 47 years in the ministry, it is harder to be a pastor today than at any time in my life.'' Keep in mind that after his ten year ministry, Adrian Rogers served there more than twenty years, and now Steve Gains has been there for several years. The ministry has long been filled with hardships, but never...
Love and Appreciation (2 of 3)
by Jerry Branch
We've been looking at the topic that in order for DBC to go Viral and sweep across here in Dallas and the Back Mountain, the church must show Love...Love, first for God...Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your might, and second, we must love both the people within the church but also the people who are not yet part of the church...we must love our neighbors as ourselves...We saw one PART of this a couple weeks ago when we talked about HOW we must ACCEPT people as people. We accept people as people because they are created by the Same God Who created and...
The Pastor and His Call
by Curt Dodd
Here in this second servant's song commentators have debated for years who is this servant of the Lord? Some have felt like this passage is dealing with Israel, describing the nation of Israel being that one individual that God is talking about as a nation, but there is a problem as you look at verses 5 and 6. That's not exactly where He is going. Some have thought it is a servant who co-exists with Israel and is distinct from it and has a ministry to perform to Israel, that makes more sense than other recommendations and you and I both know that the servant of the Lord is fulfilled in Jesus Christ and his church. As Isaiah...
Peter's Word to the Pastor
by Marvin D. Patterson
Jonah and the Whale - One day, a teacher was talking to her first grade class about whales when a little girl had a question. Little Girl: ''Do whales swallow people?'' Teacher: ''No, even though they are much bigger than a person, they have throat pleats that filter their food of krill and plankton. Little Girl: ''But Mrs. Thurston says Jonah was swallowed by a whale.'' Teacher getting angry: ''Blue whales cannot swallow people.'' Little Girl: ''Well, when I get to heaven I'll just ask Jonah if he was really swallowed by a whale.'' Teacher, still red with anger: ''What if Jonah went to hell?'' Girl: ''Well, then you can ask him.'' A joke about Creation...
The Picture of a Pastor (17 of 18)
by J. Gerald Harris
When you begin to think of the typical pastor, what kind of image do you conjure up in your mind? I don't know what kind of image surfaces in your mind, because I'm not sure what kind of image the laity has of the clergy. You may think we are a strange breed that passes all understanding. I don't know. Maybe we are. I probably have a better understanding of the kind of images a clergyman conjures up in his mind about himself and about his role in life. For example, I know some pastors who believe they are redeemers. They have a messiah complex. There are a lot of pastors who get caught up in this at one time or another...
How to Choose a Pastor (4 of 15)
by Jerry Vines
In this charming little book written to new believers, the Apostle Paul brings us back to the basics of the faith. It is very important for all Christians, but especially new Christians, to know what we believe in terms of our faith and how to apply what we believe to our daily life. One of the most important truths a young Christian needs to understand is the role of the local church in their Christian maturity and growth. When you study the New Testament you will find that when people were saved they were gathered together in congregations of local churches. The church is one of the basics of the faith. The church and its role...
Qualifications Of A Sound Pastor (1 Of 2)
by Harley Howard
This lesson is designed to reveal clearly that the Lord is not silent on the issue of the caliber of men He wants to oversee His people. The two clearest passages in scripture are First Timothy chapter three and Titus chapter one. We will examine both of these chapters. - First Timothy 3:1-7 - 1 This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. Continuing his instructions on how the church should conduct itself, Paul turned to the crucial matter of leadership qualifications. He wanted to encourage respect for the congregation's leaders, so he cited what was apparently a familiar...
The Dream Church Of Every Pastor, Part 1 (2 Of 6)
by Ernest Easley
Now as you’re finding the book of 1st Thessalonians, let me remind you that the church there was started by Paul during his second missionary journey. And don’t think it took him a long time to establish a church there. His was a brief stay: Acts 17.2, ‘‘Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures.’’ Only three Sabbaths! Now apparently, Paul was there longer than three weeks. 1 Thess 2.9, ‘‘For you remember brethren, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.’’ Paul was there...
A Word for God's Pastor and God's People (17 of 32)
by Stan Coffey
AUTHORSHIP: The Apostle Paul RECIPIENT: Timothy - Timothy was the son of a Gentile father and a Jewish mother (Acts 16:1,3). He was reared in a knowledge of the Scriptures (2 Tim. 1:5, 3:14-15), and led to the Lord possibly by Paul himself (1 Tim. 1:2). On his second missionary journey Paul found Timothy at Lystra. Paul determined to take Timothy along as a member of the missionary party and Timothy subsequently became one of Paul’s closest companions. From the various references in the New Testament, Timothy appears as a tactful young man of a nervous temperament and a degree of physical weakness...
A Pastor Prays for His People (3 of 16)
by Stan Coffey
Now one of the things that you cannot help but notice as you read the writings of the apostle Paul is the fact that Paul is a man who is mighty in prayer. It is true that you can tell much about the life of a Christian from examining his life of prayer. And it seems that time after time in his writings under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Paul the apostle reaches colossus height as he prayed. I believe the highest point of his prayer is in the book of Romans when he comes to pray for his own Jewish people. And he says in that prayer, ''I would even be willing to go to hell if it would mean that my people, my kinsmen in the flesh, could...
Funeral of a Faithful Pastor's Wife (2 of 5)
by Jim Perdue
Death is not the end; rather it is only the beginning of eternity. The passing of a loved one is often unexpected and always difficult. But my prayer is that the peace of God would be real in your heart and life today. Paul wrote in Philippians that ''the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.'' Jesus Himself said in the Gospel of John, ''Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.'' On behalf of the family, I would like to say a special thank you to you all for being here...
Ordination Sermon for Student Pastor
by J. Gerald Harris
Those who minister to children and youth very likely have the most strategic and important role in the church, because those of us who are older are entrusting to them the most important treasures we have - our young people - the next generation. So, we cannot entrust our students to Kyle Clayton without assuming some responsibility ourselves. So, here are some things the church needs to do. This is nothing new, but a reminder of what we must do to bless Kyle's ministry and ensure his success as a pastor to our youth. I. Remember their Position Our text says, ''Remember those who rule over...
Help I’m Single & My Pastor is Doing a Marriage Series (5 of 6)
by Scott Maze
Now, most of our lives follow along three paths... The majority of Americans will have four stages to their lives. Singleness is a relatively short stage of life for a lot of us. Yet, an increasing number of you, life will look like this: I didn't refresh these stats recently but the last time I checked, we had more than six hundred families within our church identify themselves as single including more than one hundred eighty widowers/widows. And still some of you, life is simply somewhere been two or three stages, everything except marriage. Many of you are single again while some of you have always been...
Picking a Pastor (5 of 20)
by Jerry Vines
We are going slowly through this book because there are many, many wonderful teachings to be found here about the Christian life. That's why I'm calling our study, Christianity 101. In this lovely little letter, the Apostle Paul is instructing new converts. We always have new converts in our fellowship. Many of you have been saved for a long, long time, but we always have brand new believers and it is important they understand the great doctrines of the Bible. When you see the word, doctrine, that means teaching. It is interesting to me that every chapter in I Thessalonians concludes with a reference to the second coming of...
The Heart of a Great Pastor
by Marvin D. Patterson
God looks over the millions of people and says 'Welcome to Heaven. I want the women to go with Saint Peter, and the men to form two lines. Make one line of the men that dominated their women on earth, and the other of men who were dominated by their women.' There's much movement, but eventually the women are gone and there are two lines. The line of the men that were dominated is 100 miles long. The line of men that dominated women has only one man. God gets angry and says, 'You men should be ashamed of yourselves. I created you in my image and you were all dominated by your mates. Look at...
Job Description for a Pastor (15 of 16)
by Jerry Vines
This morning I'm going to speak to you on the ''Job Description for a Pastor.'' It is given to us in I Peter 5 and the first four verses. These verses compose what might be called a job description for a pastor. Every born again child of God needs to be in a local church, and every Christian needs to have a pastor. It is God's plan and God's intention that every Christian have someone of whom they can say, ''This is my pastor.'' Simon Peter was a pastor. He is the human author of the book of I Peter. He had a second book, and we're probably going to move right on into that after we finished these verse-by-verse studies in the first...
