FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
  • Welcome!
    • First Time Visitor
  • WORSHIP
    • Sermons by Rev. Kim James
    • Worship Services
  • Lent & Easter 2023
  • Ministries
    • Adult Ministries & Missions >
      • Adult Sun & Fri Classes
      • Bible Reading Resources
      • Book Talk
      • Choirs
      • Outreach & Missions >
        • Hometown Mission Week
        • Take Action Now
      • Lay Servant Ministries
      • United Methodist Women >
        • United Methodist Women
      • United Methodist Men
      • Yoga & Meditation
    • Children's Ministries >
      • Christian Education
      • Girl Scouts
    • Church Camp
    • Garden & Bees
    • Volunteer Ministries
  • About Us
    • Staff & Contact
    • News & Calendar
    • Beliefs & Purpose
    • Celebrating our History >
      • History of FUMC
      • Digital Archives History
      • Heritage Sunday 2016
    • United Methodist Links
    • Community Links
  • Donate

"Control Your Desires"

1/28/2018

0 Comments

 
  • SERMON TITLE:   “Ten Commandments 8 & 10:  Control Your Desires”
  • SERMON TEXT:    Exodus 20:1-17
  • PREACHER:           Rev. Kim James
  • OCCASION:           January 28, 2018, at First UMC
 
 
INTRODUCTION
 
                If you’ve been following this sermon series on the Ten Commandments, you know that I’ve been talking about two of them each week.  On January 7, we summed up commandments one and two as “worship God first and only.”  On January 14, we saw how commandments three and four come together in the instruction to “practice holy living.”  And, last Sunday, we covered commandments five and six, the tall goalposts that give us the instruction to “respect other people.”
                So, it would be logical if you thought that I would be pairing up commandments seven and eight today.  But every plot line needs a few twists and turns, right?  So, I decided to save the commandments about adultery and false witness for February.  Today, instead, we’re going to focus our attention on commandments eight and ten:  “You shall not steal” and “You shall not covet”—or, to put that another way, “Control your desires.”

Continue reading
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

Proudly powered by Weebly
www.fumcogdenut.org
  • Welcome!
    • First Time Visitor
  • WORSHIP
    • Sermons by Rev. Kim James
    • Worship Services
  • Lent & Easter 2023
  • Ministries
    • Adult Ministries & Missions >
      • Adult Sun & Fri Classes
      • Bible Reading Resources
      • Book Talk
      • Choirs
      • Outreach & Missions >
        • Hometown Mission Week
        • Take Action Now
      • Lay Servant Ministries
      • United Methodist Women >
        • United Methodist Women
      • United Methodist Men
      • Yoga & Meditation
    • Children's Ministries >
      • Christian Education
      • Girl Scouts
    • Church Camp
    • Garden & Bees
    • Volunteer Ministries
  • About Us
    • Staff & Contact
    • News & Calendar
    • Beliefs & Purpose
    • Celebrating our History >
      • History of FUMC
      • Digital Archives History
      • Heritage Sunday 2016
    • United Methodist Links
    • Community Links
  • Donate