Jeff Paschall

SERMON SERIES    Stay Married
SERMON TITLE    Can I Respect You – part2
SERMON DATE    05/04/2008
SPEAKER    Jeff Paschall
TEXT    Ephesians 5
Last week we saw, that because of sin, Conflict has ravaged the human landscape.  It is the main cause why a lot of marriages go belly up.  And now for relationships to even have a chance… men and women must have roles.
Unfortunately, both genders… are naturally disposed to hate their assignments… Two of the most common complaints I hear women say are, 1) “My husband won’t take the lead spiritually in the marriage.  You know, he’s a leader at work… but when it comes to the home and the marriage… he doesn’t do anything.”  And, 2) “My husband misuses his leadership.  He orders us around and he just keeps us under his thumb.”
On the other hand, the ONE complaint I hear about the wives is this, “My wife is nagging.  She’s on my back, she’s not on my side.  At every turn… she uses every means to manipulate and control… She ruins me publicly with her words.  My wife is a constant and unrelenting source of discouragement.”  [Read more →]

SERMON SERIES    Stay Married
SERMON TITLE    Can I Respect You
SERMON DATE    04/27/2008
SPEAKER    Jeff Paschall
TEXT    Gen. 3
A woman took her husband to a doctor for a check up.  And before they left, the doctor pulled the woman aside and said, “You know, stress is killing your husband.  If you don’t make some dramatic changes, he is going to die.  So let me make these recommendations.  Each morning fix him a healthy breakfast and send him off in a good mood.  At lunch time, talk to him.  Make him a warm, delicious meal or at least encourage him.  Third, prepare a nice dinner and avoid complaining about household chores.  And fourth, have sex with him several times weekly and try to satisfy him emotionally.  And on the way home the husband asked his wife, “Well, what’d the doctor say?”  She said, “You’re going to die.” [Read more →]

SERMON SERIES Stay Married
SERMON TITLE Why Not Have Sex With Anyone? – part 2
SERMON DATE 04/20/2008
SPEAKER Jeff Paschall
TEXT 1 Cor. 6
We talked about this last week… we live in a sexually supercharged society. So why not have sex with whomever you want? Typically, Christians respond without thinking very hard… But did you know, as we began to take a look at Scripture last week, the Bible actually provides cogent… reasonable… and today… you will see… extremely weighty explanations for avoiding casual sex.
TO catch us up from where we left off… instead of just thumping them over the head… telling them to “Just stop it! Paul says, “PEOPLE THINK!!! Ask yourself a few questions!” Firstly, is it constructive? “Okay, WE ARE FREE IN CHRIST!!! AND SINNING DOESN’T GET YOU UNSAVED!!! BUT DOES IT OCCUR TO YOU… FOR A MINUTE… to make moral decisions that benefit you… If not you, how about OTHERS… if not others, how about JESUS? Does Jesus’ best interest occur to you at all? AT ALL? Hmm… It doesn’t do you… others… OR JESUS… any good… and you still do it? Hmm…

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SERMON SERIES Stay Married
SERMON TITLE Why Not Have Sex With Anyone?
SERMON DATE 04/13/2008
SPEAKER Jeff Paschall
TEXT 1 Cor. 6
Let me begin today with a disclaimer. This message does carry a PG-13 rating. I say that tongue-in-cheek mostly because, when it comes to talking about sex in church… we typically skirt the issue. We don’t talk very directly… we deal with it hopefully as sensitively as we can… but rarely do we get specific enough where people can actually say… “Now, he’s talking straight!” Or, “Okay, that makes sense!” So, as a disclaimer… the topic is sex… and I plan on speaking very straightforwardly and pointedly… and go into detail about how God made us sexual beings… and He has something to say to us about this… so if you need to… If this seems uncomfortable to you or you’re a parent who wants to have more control over the dissemination of information to your children… no big deal… excuse yourself… download the message later and pick it apart. [Read more →]

SERMON SERIES Stay Married
SERMON TITLE Why Get Married – part 2
SERMON DATE 04/06/2008
SPEAKER Jeff Paschall
TEXT Selected Scripture
On rare occasion… I’ve have given people the finger. The last time I remember it… was about 3 years ago… It was mid-June… the freshness and excitement of the beginning of summer was in the air… there’s a certain predictable sort of electricity… the streets and and shopping centers come alive with students from high schools and colleges who are freshly freed from being pent up in classes for nine months.
I don’t take what happened too seriously. But I was driving down the 15 and a car full of college girls pulled up next to me on the freeway… [Read more →]

SERMON SERIES    Stay Married
SERMON TITLE    Why Get Married?
SERMON DATE    03/30/2008
SPEAKER    Jeff Paschall
TEXT    Selected Scripture
If you ever want to know the real answer to tough questions… ask a kid.  (Andrew, “Have you ever been to a funeral?”  “…do weddings count?”) We have a lot of questions about marriage… and, thanks to kids, now we have all of the answers.  Yeah!  Like answer to questions like, ,  “How do you decide whom to marry?”  Alan (10) “You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chip and dip coming.” Or Kristen (10) says, “No person really decides before they grow up who they’re going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you’re stuck with.”   [Read more →]

This is a cool picture Micah Durham took of me and the fam.

Yesterday Andrew (9) and I were talking about easter and Jesus and death and I asked, “Andrew, have you ever been to a funeral?” And he replied, “Do weddings count?”

The popular television drama ER usually led off with a predictable incident that would grab your attention. There’s a flurry of activity… racing bodies clad in turquoise wheel a gurney into the ER… and you know what happens… on the count of three they transfer the bruised and bloodied person onto a table where they simultaneously take is respiration, his heartbeat and his reactions are measured. You’ll hear them say things like… “blood pressure 75/40 and dropping” “respiration shallow” “pulse weak.” And they’re all talking at the same time but in concert. And in seconds the patient is hooked to an IV. And a heartrate monitor begins beeping… and the beeping adds to the already thick tension in the air. [Read more →]

SERMON SERIES Palm Sunday
SERMON TITLE The God You’ve Been Searching For
SERMON DATE 03/16/2008
SPEAKER Jeff Paschall
TEXT Daniel 9; Luke 19:41-44; Rom 8
Finding God is a lot like playing hide and go seek with a two year old. I remember it most playing with Jordan when she was little. When she was old enough to understand the concept… hide and go seek was her absolute favorite game. And there’s something unbelievably special about playing it with young children. YOU WANT THEM TO FIND YOU… you go out of your way to HIDE BAD… Jordan would cover her face with her little hands and begin counting to ten. Mom would help her with the even numbers. And when she popped off number ten she would go out looking for me… she KNEW I couldn’t be far… she KNEW I wasn’t a good hider… and I think in the back of her mind… she knew… I WANTED TO BE FOUND… [Read more →]