This speech was presented at the Young People’s Convention this past year in Lynden, Washington.   In preparing me to give this speech on contentment God used content people. One was a grandmother in Israel. When asked what she thought “contentment” was she pondered a minute and then said, “Contentment is the key to life.” […]

INTRODUCTION 1. A dictionary defines peers as those persons who are “of the same rank, value, quality, ability, etc…” a. In what way are all of God’s people peers of one another? b. How are teenagers peers of one another? 2. “Peer pressure” is a common way to describe the influence that peers can and […]

We have been studying what it means to seek the kingdom as the Bible in Luke 12 explains it. In the face of such an exhortation as “seek the kingdom’’ we need not despair, for we are able to do all such things through Christ Who strengthens us. We may not be proud, however, of […]

“EXHORTATION”: From the Latin: “An urging out of.” From the Bible: “God urging His people out of sin and into His kingdom.” The Holy Spirit in the Bible in Luke 12:29-34 has exhorted us and in our hearts through that Word, does continually exhort us “to seek the kingdom of God.” Rather than seeking anything […]