SERMON:Wise Up About Self Control

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  • Title : Wise Up About Self Control
  • Verse : Proverbs
  • Date : July 4, 2010
If we could analyze the influences that build up a godly character to maturity, we might well find that the agencies which we call "natural" vastly outweighed those that we call "supernatural." The book of Proverbs reassures us that this, if it is true, is no reflection on the efficiency of God‘s grace; for the hard facts of life, which knock some of the nonsense out of us, are God‘s facts and His appointed school of character; they are not alternatives to His grace, but means of it...Derek Kidner, "Proverbs", pg. 35

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Mel Lawrenz

Elmbrook Church

Mel Lawrenz is the Senior Pastor of Elmbrook Church. He has served as a pastor at Elmbrook in a variety of capacities for the past twenty-two years, succeeding Stuart Briscoe as senior pastor in 2000.

Mel has authored or co-authored eight books for popular and professional audiences. His newest book is Putting the Pieces Back Together: How Real Life and Faith Connect, published by Zondervan.

Mel was born in Chicago in 1955, but grew up in Green Bay and Ellison Bay, Wisconsin. He earned his B.A. in creative writing at Carroll College, his M.Div. at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in historical theology at Marquette University. He and his wife, Ingrid, have been married for 28 years and have two teenage children. In his spare time, Mel enjoys playing guitar, biking, camping, and being outdoors as much as possible, getting near a body of water, preferably!

Elmbrook Church

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We believe the Scriptures, both Old and New Testament, to be the inspired Word of God, without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His Will for the salvation of men and the divine and final authority for all Christian faith and life.

We believe in one God, Creator of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We believe Jesus Christ is true God and true man, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He died on the cross, a sacrifice for our sins according to the Scriptures. Further, He arose bodily from the dead and ascended into heaven, where at the right hand of the Majesty on High He is now our High Priest and Advocate, and in the person of the Holy Spirit, He indwells the believer.

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