God's Wake-Up Call

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God's Wake-Up Call

Each Podcast is a portion of Pastor Rick's Sunday sermons, as preached at Jones Memorial Baptist Church (www.JMBCWV.com).

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There are no less than eight soul-gripping principles for lasting happiness in 1 Peter 1:3-9. These principles will not offer you immediate happiness, because they are spiritual and must penetrate through our thick fleshly selves and find lodging in our hearts. But, through meditation, pray and experience, these will enable you to smile through your tears.

The Holy Spirit has been “summoned (by Jesus’ prayer and the Father’s commission) to stand beside you.” His purpose it “to assist you,” to help you navigate through the highways and byways of life. He specializes in tailor-making Himself to meet “your unique needs.” Go ahead, smile. This is good news. And there’s more!

God never intended life to be a series of vain pursuits. The creation narrative reveals that men and women were originally place in a perfect environment. But it didn’t take long for things to change and tears quickly became a natural part of our existence.
However, the Bible is quite clear that we can experience happiness, joy, rejoicing, praise, and gladness while living a fallen world. This is the reason we search for pleasure amid a world of woe. These sermons are intended to help you smile through your tears.

This is the first in a series of sermons called Smiling Through Your Tears.
It doesn’t take much to get swept away by the suffocating fog that plagued Solomon most of his life. His cry has been our cry: “vanity of vanities; all is vanity.”
But, there is good news!
The good news is: there are plenty of reasons to smile through your tears.

This was a special service on January 8, 2012 in which two of our men, David Kirby (the voice of our radio program and pod cast) and Reggie Wood were ordained as deacons. Listen to Pastor's words of challenge and their encouraging testimonies.