TODAY’S “GOOD NEWS” – January 4, 2004 

MESSAGE:  “LET’S PUSH OUT FROM SHORE

                            …In Two-Thousand And Four!”

SCRIPTURE:  Luke 5:1-11

KEY VERSE:  v. 4b  “Jesus said to Simon, ‘put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch’.”

FOCUS:  God has guidance for what to do with the rest of your life.

INTRODUCTION:  “Jesus Christ saves us from the degrading necessity of being the child of our time.  We don’t have to be the product of whatever this time is.  We can be something original and different.”        ~ G.K. Chesterton

The Conditions for doing EXPLOITS FOR GOD Include:

I.     HAVING HOPE FOR ANOTHER DAY    

       

 

 

II.      WILLINGNESS TO TRY AGAIN

 

 

 

III.   GRATITUDE FOR STRENGTH BEYOND MY OWN

 

 

 

IV.    ACCEPTANCE OF LIFE’S ULTIMATE PURPOSE

 

 

 

 

CONCLUSION:  “Too often we wait because the time is not opportune.  If we wait for a perfect set of circumstances we will never begin at all.  If we want a miracle we must take Jesus at His word when He bids us attempt the impossible.”    ~ Wm. Barclay

PREACHING:  Pastor Holland Lewis