BIBLE LESSONS & SCRIPT - FOR WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?

  WHEN LOVING IS HARD (Luke 22:63-65; 23:32-38; Matt.5:44)                          picture taken from www.bing.com images INTRODUCTION: Bible says, “LOVE YOUR ENEMIES.” It’s hard to have enemies, isn’t it? But it’s harder to love them, right? Also, it’s hard when your friends turned to be your enemies. There was a time in my life where our friends and I decided to build a business. Our eagerness in business made our hearts did everything to make things happened according to our plan. To make it short, we failed and we were drowned in debt. That was the start of misunderstanding and fighting. We ended up trying not to see each other and each one faced our own struggles financially, emotionally and legally. Out of seven members, two or three of us only faced the tremendous debt. I remember asking God why He didn’t open my eyes to see the consequence of that decision. I was afraid to face the debtors and di...

CHRISTIAN BAPTIST TABERNACLE WOUNDS THAT LEAD YOU BACK Zechariah 13:6; Isaiah 53:5 APRIL 01, 2018 INTRODUCTION: -           THE BRIDGE - THE STORY OF SACRIFICE There once was a bridge operator who had a young son whom he dearly loved. They were inseparable. The young boy often asked to go with his father to watch him work - to watch him raise and lower the draw bridge, allowing the boats to pass under or the passenger trains to cross over. One day the father relented and allowed his son to come with him. "Stay here at a safe distance," the father warned the boy, "while I go and raise the bridge for the coming boat." The boy stayed where his father had left him and watched the bridge as it slowly lifted up in the sky. Suddenly, the boy heard the faint cry of an approaching passenger train - coming quite a bit sooner than had been expected. The father, up in the...