Based on Genesis 18. The audio and video sermon can be found at www.mympumc.net for October 16, 2016

1. Mt.United Methodist Church

2. Some are FANS of Jesus

3. Some are Disciples of Jesus

4. Who doesn’t love
stewardship?

5. Guilt
good people give, a lot!
Fear
God will get you!

6. Stewardship is a Process
What you give (plant), you receive (harvest)…

7. Stewardship is a Relationship
What you love, you willingly, joyfully surrender to.

8. So why is
Stewardship
so hard?

9. In a world of comparisons, Gratitude dies.
Rich or Poor
Picked First or Last
Cool or Nerdy
Athletic or Clumsy
Beautiful or Ordinary
Musical or Tone deaf

10. Let’s change all that…

11. Welcome to
Mt. PleasantUnited Methodist Church

12. I am a
Child of

13. “Where is your
wife Sarah?” they
asked him.
“There, in the
tent,” he said.
Then one of them
said, “I will surely
return to you
about this time
next year, and
Sarah your wife
will have a son.”

14. Now Sarah was
listening at the
entrance to the
tent, which was
behind him.
Abraham and
Sarah were
already very old,
and Sarah was
past the age of
childbearing.

15. So Sarah laughed
to herself as she
thought, “After I
am worn out and
my lord is old,
will I now have
this pleasure?”

16. Then the LORD
said to Abraham,
“Why did Sarah
laugh and say,
‘Will I really have
a child, now that I
am old?’ Is
anything too hard
for the LORD?

17. I will return to
you at the
appointed time
next year, and
Sarah will have a
son.”
Sarah was afraid,
so she lied and
said, “I did not
laugh.” But he
said, “Yes, you
did laugh.”

18. Sarah said,
“God has
brought me
laughter, and
everyone who
hears about
this will laugh
with me.”
Genesis 21:6 (NIV)

19. I am a
Child of
God
I know it. I live it. I love it!

20. I am a
Joyful

21. “You make
known to me the
path of life; in
your presence
there is fullness
of joy; at your
right hand are
pleasures
forevermore.”
Psalm 16:11

22. “I have come
home at last!
This is my real
country! I belong
here. This is the
land I have been
looking for all my
life, though I
never knew it till
now...Come
further up, come
further in!” CS Lewis

23. I am a
Hungr

24. My Church is filled
with the aroma of
LOVE and HOPE

25. I don’t HAVE to,
I GET TO…

26. How hard/easy is it
for you to enter
worship?

27. I am a
Gratef

28. “God has brought
me laughter, and
everyone who
hears about this
will laugh with me.”
Genesis 21:6

29. Gratitude is the
greatest Anxiety Killer
How hard is it for you to give?

30. Without this…

31. All you’re left with is…

32. I am a
Child of