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We must not presume on God’s grace. Forgiveness is not God’s job, but his gracious choice. His kindness leads us to repentance. The best time to face our sin is before we commit it. When we sin, we set in motion circumstances which we will not be able to control. Today if we seek God’s forgiveness we can find it. God can redeem us and restore us. Message based on I Samuel 15:9-31Quotes:Duane Brooks: Charisma without character comes to cataclysm.Duane Brooks: Partial obedience is a total problem!Oswald Chambers: The tiniest detail in which I obey God has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it.Walt Wangerin: My denial of my sin protects, preserves, perpetuates that sin! Ugliness in me, while I live in illusions, can only grow the uglier.A.W. Tozer: Delayed obedience is disobedience.Duane Brooks: Jesus didn’t eat with sinners and tax collectors because he wanted to appear inclusive, tolerant, and accepting.  He ate with them to call them to a changed and fruitful life, to die to self and live for

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Our lives are cluttered with so many things we thought we wanted. When Israel asked for a king, Samuel took it personally. God reminded him that the people had not rejected Samuel but God. What if we already have everything we need in God? God knows all of our endless wants, but he provides everything we need, right on time. Message based on I Samuel 7:12-8:9, 12:20-25.Quotes:George MacDonald: Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.Duane Brooks: Christ is the true king over God’s kingdom, who brings good, not harm, to his subjects.Satchel Paige: How old would you be if you didn’t know your age.Duane Brooks: Our desires may reveal our lack of satisfaction with God.Duane Brooks: We have a passion for substitutes and an aversion to holiness.R.T. Kendall: Everyone I admired too much sooner or later disappointed me.  Alexander MacLaren: One of the first lessons which we have to learn is a wholeso

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In a time when the heavens seemed silent, God found a boy who could hear his voice. When Samuel heard God and prayed, God spoke to him, so that he could speak God’s words. If we want to speak a living, lasting word for God, we must first learn to discern his voice. With all my heart, I believe God is speaking to us today.  Message based on 1 Samuel 3:1-10.Quotes:Jack MacGorman: The Bible, has always been for me, a meeting place with God.Drew Humphrey: God will not put revival on sale.  It will cost this generation what it has cost every generation.  Prayer.Bob Dylan: You are going to have to serve somebody – it might be the devil or it might be the Lord, but you’re going to have to serve somebody.Listen and silent have the same letters, because we need to be silent to listen. Andrae Crouch:  We need to hear from you, we need a word from youIf we don’t hear from you what will we doWanting you more each dayShow us your perfect wayThere is no other way that we can live! David Crowder: I need a word . . . wide as

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When all hope seemed lost for Israel and for Hannah, she prayed and God heard. God gave her a son and gave Israel a leader. The Lord of Hosts, Yahweh Sabaoth, was working all things together for good for the ones who loved him. Samuel became a mighty man of God who led Israel well. Message based on 1 Samuel 1:9-20. Quote:Craig Brian Larson: God often fulfills his greatest purposes through our deep unfulfilled desires, when we surrender them to him in prayer.Duane Brooks: The way forward for the church is on our knees.Ken Medema: If this is not a place where my spirit can take wing, where can I go to fly? If this is not a place where tears are understood, where can I go to cry?If this is not a place where my questions can be asked, where shall I go to seek?Duane Brooks: The revival our nation needs may very well begin in your private prayer time this week or in our corporate prayer meeting on a Wednesday night.Brandon Lake: Miracle Child - I shouldn’t be alive My future was six feet under One foot in the grave

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Tyler Ballard, Minister to Students, steps in for Pastor Duane Brooks to deliver a sermon about the enduring significance of friendship grounded in kindness and its connection to Jesus. This message is based on Matthew 11:1-6.Tyler begins by examining the friendship between David and Jonathan, and David’s kindness to Mephibosheth, highlighting that God's kindness transcends divisions and mistakes. Mephibosheth is restored by David's kindness, symbolizing God's restorative kindness. Ballard also discusses the powerful impact of friendship through the story of the paralyzed man in Luke chapter 5, whose healing was made possible by his friends bringing him to Jesus.Tyler emphasizes friendship's importance by contrasting the healed man in John 5, who lacked friends, with the paralyzed man in Luke 5, who had companions. The message concludes with a call to embrace God's love and kindness, encouraging listeners to seek and be friends who lead each other to Jesus, thus fostering a community

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What do we Christians really have to offer the world? One man suggested that the church should just focus on charity. Our world would settle for less than the church has to offer. In Jerusalem, after Pentecost, the new followers of Jesus devoted themselves to the Apostle’s teaching, to fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayer. Their winsome witness won the city over. They served God and grew more like Christ for the sake of others. This is still the plan for God’s people: we give our Jesus to the world. He is still all we have to offer and everything the world needs. Message based on Acts 2:42-3:10.Quotes:Eugene Peterson: It’s not easy to convey a sense of wonder. Let alone resurrection wonder to another person. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent our expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged. It can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there, some sense of engagement.Malcomb Muggeridge: Lord, help me to never lose the wonder.Karl Barth: To cl

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On that first Pentecost, the Spirit fell on the united disciples and filled them with power to talk about Jesus. Three thousand turned to God that day. Peter envisioned that we who are far off would also receive the promised Holy Spirit. Message based on Acts 2:1-4, 37-41.Quotes:Duane Brooks: I'm grateful that even when the church doesn't have electricity, we always have powerMost Kindle Highlights: The Hunger Games: Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.Duane Brooks: The same power that fell on the disciples and filled them is promised to us if we will receive it today.Duane Brooks: We don’t have to live without spiritual power.  We do not have to be empty.  When the days were full for Pentecost, God, who fills the universe condescended to fill a room, and a small group of people and once they were changed, they changed the world.Quote about D. L. Moody: I don’t mean to say Moody has a monopoly on the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit has a monopol

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As we restore the table, we remember that the disciples stayed and prayed in Jerusalem waiting for the Spirit. Jesus’ mother was there praying with them. They did not pray to Mary but they prayed with her. They did not worship Mary but Mary worshiped her Son, Jesus with the early church. The first time we see Mary, she is praying. Now we see her praying again. Message based on Acts 1:12-26.Quotes:Alfred Lord Tennyson: More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.William Law: There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as prayer for him.D. L. Moody:  Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.A.T. Pierson: There has never been a revival in any country that has not begun in united prayer and no revival has ever continued beyond the duration of those prayer meetings. Duane Brooks: Will you pray?To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/

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In this sixth week of Eastertide, we return with the apostles to sit with Jesus at the table. Like our graduating seniors who are about to launch out into life, Jesus knew his time was short. As he left the table, he offered good gifts for those in our midst who are about to leave their family tables for a season. Two thousand years later, his gifts are still exactly what we all need. This message is based on Acts 1:1-11.Quotes: Shawn Shannon: Jesus ate with his disciples over and over again because he wanted to be with them.Duane Brooks: Jesus chose us as his people, he communes and communicates with us by his Spirit through the word, and he commissions us with powerful purpose. Farrell and Farrell: Boundless love, unending joy.  This is my life.  It’s what I know.  I can’t believe that he selected me.  Jesus, my Lord.  It’s you I owe.Lauren Struzick: Those are my people.Mary Pipher:  We live our lives in the “shelter of each other."Virtus Gideon: At every church you will find someone who knows the Lord

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Dr. Todd Still delivers a message on the theme of Christian hospitality. He  emphasizes the importance of hospitality as a core Christian value, using biblical texts from 1 Peter 4:8-11 and Romans 12:9-12 to illustrate his points. He emphasizes that hospitality in the New Testament context often refers to the practice of befriending strangers, specifically other Christians, and providing support to traveling believers.Todd shares historical examples from the Bible, including Phoebe, Onesimus, and others, citing how they were shown hospitality and how they extended it to others. He connects these practices to teachings from Jesus and the apostles on the importance of caring for others, particularly fellow believers, as a reflection of one's faith.He also relates personal anecdotes of receiving and giving hospitality, challenging listeners to consider how they can incorporate hospitality into their own lives. Todd stresses the importance of being proactive in extending hospitality to both insiders and pote

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