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2010 SERIES OF SERMONS IN DANIEL
February 14th—“Creating a winsome witness in a secular workplace” (Daniel 1:8-16)
As Christians we don't live in church, we live mostly out of it. We spend more time in our workplaces than anywhere else. It is there that we will occasionally be called upon to take a stand, and how we do it will make all the difference between creating a winsome witness and a wearisome witness. If we are going to learn, like Daniel and his companions, to thrive in the lions den of the New Millennium, we are going to need to learn how to create a winsome witness in a secular workplace. Come and learn the 5 principles for creating a winsome witness in a secular workplace.
February 21st—“Ministering to a Secular Congregation” (Daniel 1:17-21)
Tomorrow, when we go to work, school, or our vocational callings, we need to look at the chairs and realize that those are our pews. And when we see the people that we’ve seen everyday forever it seems, we need to look at them a little differently, and understand that they are our congregation. We minister to a secular congregation everyday. They are rarely receptive, often skeptical, sometimes outright hostile, but they are also blind and lost and desperately in need of Jesus. It's hard to minister to such a crowd, and it's easy to get discouraged. In this message we’ll take a few lessons from Daniel and company on how to minister to a secular congregation.
February 28th—“Divine Appointments with Wounded Lions” (Daniel 2:1-16)
We live in a world full of lions in pain. They may be powerful people in many respects, but they are all in various stages of pain. We who have Christ hold the cure, but not everyone is ready for the cure quite yet. We see their need, but we can't always make them see it. God has to bring them to the point where they can see their need. But there comes a time when the pain or emptiness or disturbance is so great that the prospect of the thorn being removed outweighs the fear of the process of removal itself. We must be prepared for that one lion, that divine appointment who is ready to have the thorn removed. Come and learn how to remove the thorn from the lions around you.
March 7th—“Recognizing God’s signature in a world full of forgeries” (Daniel 2:17-24)
We all live in a market place of ideas and truth. Some of these are right and some are wrong. The problem is knowing which ones. In a world in which thousands of differing ideas and truths compete for our allegiance, we are becoming increasingly hard pressed to recognize which ones are from God and which ones aren't. How can we separate those from God, and those which are merely Satanic forgeries? Living and working in a foreign and often hostile environment, we can be hard put to differentiate the authentic from the forgeries. Learn how to recognize God’s signature in a world full of forgeries.
March 14th—“Evangelizing the Lions in your den” (Daniel 2:25-30)
There are those people in our world who claim to have some secret crystal, or mysterious ability to channel to the other world, or who claim they can tap into the magical and mysterious spiritual world—if course--all for a price. They claim to be essential guides to the truth, and urge us to be dependent upon them. Their spirits or gods are secretive, as are their purposes. Daniel had the courage to break ranks with his teachers and as a result was able to become a faithful messenger of the God who dwelled in heaven. Let’s learn how to evangelize the Lions in our den.
March 21st—“Standing up to Political Correctness” (Daniel 3:1-18)
Political Correctness! It has become the new rage. Diversity of thought and opinion is now considered subversive, and must be stamped out at all costs. It has sent many who think differently running for cover, or a way of escape. Those who have recently gained power in national and local government are seeking to entrench their ideologies so that the new religion of the "party" is enforced upon everyone. We don't want to have to take a stand on these issues, and we think that we will be able somehow to sidestep this issue, and ignore it. When we say this we misunderstand the nature of political correctness. It demands allegiance, it will settle for nothing less, and it will ask questions that demand a stand one way or another. Learn how to make the right stand from the example of Daniel.
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