Sermons on Christian Living
Standing Through the Storm: Anticipating Heaven
Standing in the Storm Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” Mary Anne Radmacher Luke 9:22 And he said, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.” All suffering is a result of sin in some way Life is hard, God…
Standing Through the Storm: Fight in the Storm
Standing through the storm Borrowing Light from the past, wounded healers, Jesus’ presence Eph. 6:10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of…
Standing Through the Storm: Finding the Light
The goal is to keep standing through the storm God’s World: Coherent word, free will God’s War: God is not the only supernatural actor on the world stage God’s Will: God’s number one desire is our relationship with him Maybe by adjusting our expectations we could reduce the sense of disappointment isolation and unfairness riding on the back of unanswered prayer Peter Greig When we finally accept the fact that life is not a five star hotel and lay down…
Standing Through the Storm: Setting Our Expectations
God’s World, God’s War, God’s Will God’s World: God made a coherent world where miracles are possible but are rare That God can and does on occasion modify the behavior of matter and produce what we call miracles is a part of the Christian faith but the very conception of a common and therefore stable world demands that these occasions should be rare. CS Lewis Every miracle is a tantalizing foretaste of the world to come God’s War: God is…
Difference Makers
Difference Makers Purpose and Significance are basic human needs Purpose/Contributing to others “When they had no more left to give, they found the energy to help the person next to them.” “Service to others is what makes the highest performing teams in the world.” Meaning/Significance = Lasting Purpose “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” Viktor Frankl Ultimate meaning and purpose are found in Jesus For even the Son of Man came…
Spiritual Practices: Part IV
Spiritual Practices Is anything worth more than your soul? God initiates then waits We come into his presence with gratitude Prayer walks Whisper through your word Song of Solomon 2:15 Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards Miss the mark Refuse a rightful authority Bent/crooked 1 Tim. 4:2 whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron Covered Carried away Ps. 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has…
Spiritual Practices: Part III
Spiritual Practices Hunger for food is natural Is anything worth more than your soul? God initiates then waits The God you are waiting for is waiting for you – Craig Groeschel Ps. 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. God makes us hungry for Him until He is number One May God give us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires – A.W. Tozer Wandering with God Pay attention…
Spiritual Practices: Part II
Spiritual Practices – Sept. 17, 2023 “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” – C.S. Lewi Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart I have a soul Everyone has spiritual hunger God initiates then waits Hosea 7:14, 16 They do not cry to Me from their heart When they…
Spiritual Practices: Part I
Spiritual Practices Let pain be a sign Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. I have a soul “Secularism is a cultural framework that works against belief and undermines anything supernatural. Secularism is built on doubting. Secularism is set up to make you doubt.” (Mark Sayers). Mark 8:36-37 And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but…