Sermons

THE POWER OF PATIENCE

Date: April 22nd, 2018

Speaker: Senior Pastor Therman E. Evans

Scripture: Luke 18:1-8

Supporting Scripture: Matthew 6:9-13, Luke 17:21

Sermon Highlights:

• Patience is a fruit of the spirit and a virtue.
• Patience is putting up with something, not putting off something.
• Patience keeps us together.
• Patience is persistence. Persistence is effort. Effort is work. Work is prayer. Patience is prayer!
• Prayer is an action word!
• If I’m not working on it/for it, I’m not praying on it/for it!
• If I’m praying & not working, I’m not praying. I’m having idle conversation.

THE POINT OF PATIENCE

Date: April 15th, 2018

Speaker: Senior Pastor Therman E. Evans

Scripture: Numbers 20:8

Supporting Scripture: Numbers 20:1-12, Exodus 4:1, Galatians 6:9, Psalm 46:10, Proverbs 18:21

Sermon Highlights:

• Be patient with me!
• Patience is easy to receive & hard to give
• Patience is POWERFUL!
• The main point of patience: increases my trust & faith in God and to fully appreciate where I am. Patience is prolonged faith
• Patience is persistence. Patience does not give up, give out, or give in!
• Patience is PAINFUL! I will stop catching hell when I stop playing ball with the devil
• Patience is PRODUCTIVE! Patience produces results! Impatience short-circuits my fruitfulness