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Una Iglesia llena de amor. Pablo le dice a los Corintios que sin amor seremos címbalo que retiñe. El amor es la virtu mas importante para que la iglesia cresca. Predicación basada en 1 Corintios 13:1-3A church filled with love. Paul tells the Corinthians without love we are just like a clanging cymbal. Love is the most important virtue for the church to grow. Message based on 1 Corinthians 13:1-3To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Con el crecimiento llegan los problemas. El crecimiento de una iglesia debe ser basado en el evangelio. Tenemos que ser llenos del Espíritu Santo para poder crecer en sabiduría y en números. Predicación basada en Hechos 6:1-3With growth comes difficulties. The growth of a church should be based on the gospel. We need to be filled with the Holy Spirit to be able to grow in wisdom and in numbers. Message based on Acts 6:1-3To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

As you look into the future, what is the hardest challenge you face for yourself, your family, and your church? What is your plan? When David became King of all Israel, he needed to find a place for his capital city and his palace. The best place was the one place Israel had been unable to capture from the Jebusites for hundreds of years. David’s secret is also our only hope. We can grow stronger through the presence and power of the Lord. David’s choice of Jerusalem and the price he paid reminds us of his most illustrious descendant, Jesus, our Lord, who is building the New Jerusalem to come down to earth. Message based on 2 Samuel 5:1-10. Quotes:Harry Emerson Fosdick:  Only the preacher wakes up in the morning believing the people are desperately concerned about the destiny of the Jebusites.Hudson Taylor: There are three stages to every great work of God: first it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.Phillips Brooks: Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people. Do not pray for tas

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As many families “get back to school,” I wonder if we will also get back to God. Israel had gotten away from God and the glory of the Lord departed as the Ark of the Covenant was lost. After the Ark was returned, David wanted to bring it back so the people could get back to God. What can we learn from David’s worship that day? Is there room for reverence and awe in our worship? Are we rejoicing? Is our worship whole-hearted? If somebody watched us worship would they say that we did so with “all our might”? Who is our audience today and every day? Message based on 2 Samuel 6:9-23.Quotes:Soren Kierkegaard: In worship we think we are the audience, the people on the stage are the performers and God is the prompter. . . But God is the audience, all of us are performers; and we in front are the prompters.Eugene Peterson: It is fatal to take charge of God.  Churches may need a sign:  Beware the God.G. K. Chesterton: The angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly.  But they never take God lightly or for g

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Dios nos llama a ser testigos de poder. Él nos da el Espíritu Santo para que viva en nosotros y nos de poder. Nosotros debemos estar disponibles para él y hacer discípulos y ser discípulos. Predicación basado en Hecho 1:6-8.God calls us to be witnesses of power. He gives us the Holy Spirit to live in us and give us power. We must be available, make disciples, and be disciples. Message based on Acts 1:6-8.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

How do you deal with difficult people? Who is acting as your enemy? If they were suddenly dropped in your hands, what would you do with them? David dealt with a number of difficult people during the years before he ascended Israel’s throne. King Saul was trying to kill him. Nabal insulted him, returning evil for good. God protected David not only from his enemies but also from taking their lives into his own hands. His choices point us to his descendant Jesus who loved his enemies and told us to do the same. Message based on 1 Samuel 24:8-17, 25:32-35, 26:8-11. Notes:Duane Brooks: When others try to harm us, we may take matters into our own hands, or place them in God’s hands.Lewis Carroll: “Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, "Let us both go to law: I will prosecute you.—Come, I'll take no denial; We must have a trial: For really this morning I've nothing to do." Said the mouse to the cur, "Such a trial, dear Sir, With no jury or judge, would be wasting our breath."

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La iglesia existe para proclamar a Cristo. Sin embargo, para cumplir con esta gran misión la iglesia necesita: estar disponible, tener una actitud de adoración, reconocer en sumisión la autoridad de Cristo y ser obendientes a su mandato. Predicación basado en Mateo 28:16-20. The church exists to proclaim Christ. However, to fulfill this great mission the church needs to: be available, have an attitude of worship, recognize Christ's authority in submission, and be obedient to His command. Message based on Matthew 28:16-20.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Again and again we see David inquire of the Lord when he needed direction and protection. This pattern teaches us the way God’s people find God’s will for our lives and our church. We inquire of the Lord. Then we listen. God wants us to know what to do even more than we want to know. Message based on 1 Samuel 23:1-12.Quotes:Duane Brooks: When David was lost in a wilderness, he was never afraid to ask God for directions. When David inquired of the Lord about what to do, he succeeded and remained safe despite Saul’s efforts to kill him. God did not fail him.  And he will not fail us. When we face difficult, risky decisions, we can move with confidence if we ask God for direction.Duane Brooks: Like David, we pray selflessly, not just for information, but for formation, for transformation.Eugene Peterson: We are too often guided by the unholy trinity of my wants, my needs, and my desires.  Self is a broken Savior. A better question than “what do I want” is : what does God want to do for others?  Robert Smith wrot

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A friend walks in when the world walks out. If you measured your wealth by the quantity and quality of your friendships, how wealthy would you be? After David defeated Goliath, he was loved by almost everyone. Jonathan, the crown prince of Israel, became David’s closest friend and ally. Their friendship shows us the kind of friendship we need in this world. Message based on 1 Samuel 18:1-16.Quotes:Duane Brooks: We are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness . . . insular, insulated, isolated lives. Charles Spurgeon: Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. Patrick O’Tuama: We live our lives in the shelter of each other.Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Friendship is a sheltering tree.Alfred Lord Tennyson said of Archbishop Cranmer: To do him a hurt was to beget a kindness from him. His heart was made of such fine soil that if you planted in it the seeds of hate they blossomed love.Ken Medema sang: Don’t tell me I’ve got a f

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David discovered that Goliath was taunting the army of Israel. He chose to enter the battle for God's sake with God's power. Behind the conflicts in our lives lies a cosmic conflict. Although we can never force God to take our side, we may decide to be on his side! Message based on 1 Samuel 17:33-37, 45-47. Quotes:Dale Ralph Davis: Faith is sustained in the present and for the present as it remembers God’s provision in the past.Frances Chan:  What was Jesus doing when he was 23?Jemima Kelly: We suffer from a crisis of courage. A.W. Tozer: God is looking for persons in whose hands his glory is safe.Dale Davis:  In God’s economy, no experience is wasted.Pastor Colbert: God, you can do anything but fail.Duane Brooks: David will be delivered not because of his true grit but because he knows the true God.Rosa Parks: Knowing what must be done does away with fear.  It was time for someone to stand up, or in my case to sit down.Duane Brooks: Jesus is God’s anointed, the Speaker of God’s word, Victor over si

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Israel was looking for a leader as Samuel stepped into the shadows and Saul descended deeper into his own darkness. God was working. Somewhere outside Bethlehem, keeping watch over his flocks, a young man wrote poetry and sang songs to his God. While everyone else forgot him, God saw him. The very same God sees us as we worship and work today. Message based on 1 Samuel 16:13.Quotes:John Woodhouse: A man after God’s own heart is if I can put it like this talking about the place the man has in God’s heart rather than the place God has in the man’s heart.Duane Brooks: The truly humble person is the last to know.Dwight L Moody: Character is who you are in the dark, when you and God alone know.Hudson Taylor: Many Christians estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources, and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt. All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence with them.Duane Brooks: God says I see you . . . and I a

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A message from Shawn Boyd, our Minister with Young Adults on Luke 2:22-40.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

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