TODAY’S “GOOD NEWS” – May 25, 2003  

 MESSAGE:  “TRIUMPHANT FAITH: 

…Living A Life Worth Remembering”

SCRIPTURE:  Hebrews 11:1-6

KEY VERSE:  v. 6  “Without faith it is impossible to please God.”

FOCUS:  What you believe determines the possibilities of your life.

INTRODUCTION: “No one is going to obey God unless that person believes God knows what He is talking about:  that is faith.  Moreover, because God has a plan for every person and for His world, anyone who is not sensitive to His will and who does not obey in faith is going to leave that will of God unfilled.”                                                          ~ Louis Evans, Jr.

I.      FAITH IS GROUNDED IN THE REALITY OF GOD

 

 

 

II.    FAITH OPENS THE DOOR TO QUALITY LIVING

 

 

  

 

III.    FAITH MAKES POSSIBLE THE APPROVAL OF GOD

 

  

IV.    FAITH IS A GIFT TO BE RECEIVED AND PRACTICED

 

CONCLUSION: “Everyone of us, when we die, still speaks.  May God grant to us to leave behind, not the germ of evil, but the lovely thing in which the lives of those who come afterwards will find their blessing.”

                                                                                        ~ Wm. Barclay

PREACHING:  Pastor Holland Lewis