April: Physical Wellness Month
Responsible Ministry: H3 Becoming Ministry
Theme: Maintain Your Physical Wellness
Sermon Series: Maintain Your Physical Wellness
Texts: James 1:19, Proverbs 19:20, Proverbs 23:20-21, Mark 10:41-45
Sermon #1: Maintain Your Physical Wellness by Listening
Text: James 1:19
SCI: Bad Listening Skills Don’t Promote Good Health—Good Listening Skills Promote Good Health
Billboard: Cultivate Listening Skills!
Sermon #2: Maintain Your Physical Wellness by Learning
Text: Proverbs 19:20
SCI: Rejecting Good Advice Can Make Us Unhealthy—Accepting Good Advice Can Make Us Healthy
Billboard: Accept Good Advice!
Sermon #3: Maintain Your Physical Wellness by Limiting
Text: Proverbs 23:20-21
SCI: Neglecting Limitations Can Lead to Unhealthy Living—Prioritizing Limitations Can Lead to Healthy Living
Billboard: Develop Good Habits!
Pastor Crenshaw’s 18th Pastoral Celebration (28 years of Pastoral Ministry) Sermon #4: Pastoral Leadership That Involves Sacrificial Service
Text: Mark 10:41-45
Speaker: Pastor Dowand Malone
Each Sermon Central Idea is developed in the form of an indicative.
Each Billboard is developed in the form of an imperative.
Sermon Series Overview and Outline
Prepared by Pastor Trevor Crenshaw for April 6, 2025 – April 27, 2025
All outlines are subject to divine adjustment.
Helpful Quotes
“Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet juices of the vine; so it is affliction that draws forth submission, weanedness from the world, and complete rest in God. Use afflictions while you have them.” – Robert Murray McCheyne
“Health is not valued till sickness comes.” – Thomas Fuller
“I venture to say that the greatest earthly blessing that God can give to any of us is health, with the exception of sickness. Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.” – Charles Spurgeon
“Where do you stand in your relationship with the Lord? People often say, God is good to me, by which they mean that they have experienced good health or prosperity. What a person possesses is not always a safe measure of his dedication to the Lord.” – Theodore Epp
“This blessed Book brings such life and health and peace, and such an abundance that we should never be poor any more.” – Smith Wigglesworth
“If you took no more care of yourself physically than spiritually, you’d be just as dried up physically as you are spiritually.” – Billy Sunday
“Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires. We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure. Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.” – Watchman Nee
“The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical is the substratum of the spiritual; and this fact ought to give to the food we eat, and the air we breathe, a transcendent significance.” – William Tyndale
“I wish you could convince yourself that GOD is often (in some sense) nearer to us, and more effectually present with us, in sickness than in health.” – Brother Lawrence
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn
“If you don’t make time for exercise, you’ll probably have to make time for illness.” – Robin Sharma
“Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” – Eleanor Brown
“Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy habits.” – Unknown