Sermons on Community
Love Refreshed: Part III
Love Refreshed – Love the broken world May 23, 2021 Fire… Let me not be separated from him forever. This is eternal life, that they know you, the one true God, and the one that you sent, Jesus Christ… Let me never be separated from him… Eternally in joy. – Blaise Pascal “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each person which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made know through…
Love Refreshed: Part II
Love Refreshed – May 16, 2021 “After I had arrived in Ireland, I found myself pasturing flocks daily, and I prayed a number of times each day. More and more the love and fear of God came to me, and faith grew and my spirit was exercised, until I was praying up to a hundred times every day and in the night nearly as often.” “You’re going home your ship is ready.” “We appeal to you, holy servant boy, to…
Love Refreshed: Part I
Love RefreshedMay 9, 2021 We need Love in order to be healthy John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 1 John 4:8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. Perhaps we don’t have our definition of Love correct. God has feelings of love What do you want me to do for you?” They said, “Lord, let our eyes…
Trials & Errors: Our Suffering Serves Others
Trials and Errors – Our Suffering Serves Others Feb. 28th There are many reasons why trials come God is trustable You don’t need to know Now and Not Yet The foretaste will become face to face Ask for the now/ Praise Him in the not yet Rejoicing in troubles Hold His hand through it Our suffering serves others 2 Cor. 1:3-5 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the…
Mouth on Fire: Encouragement
Mouth on Fire: Encouragement Jan. 31, 2021 “Trials and Errors” Words are disproportionate in effect Our words are set on fire by hell Ask to understand If you can change your circumstance, do something If you can’t change your circumstances, change your perspective Spiritual Discipline of Attentiveness Be Courageous Truth and Grace Face to Face Only a fire can light a fire Words are disproportionate in effect Negativity is easy Words do more than inform. Words also motivate/de-motivate 1…
Mouth on Fire: Gossip
Mouth on Fire – Gossip Jan. 24, 2021 This ONE THING changes the course of your life James 3:2 We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check. Words are disproportionate in effect Ask to understand If you can change your circumstance, do something If you can’t change your circumstances, change your perspective “God what are you doing in the unchangeable?” Spiritual Discipline of Attentiveness Proverbs 16:28 A perverse person stirs up…
Mouth on Fire: Combustible Complaints
Mouth on Fire: Combustible Complaints Jan. 17, 2021 This ONE THING changes the course of your life James 3:2 We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check. Words are disproportionate in effect Everything that everyone does makes sense to them Ask to understand Ex. 14:11-12 And they said to Moses, “Why did you bring us out here to die in the wilderness? Weren’t there enough graves for us in Egypt?…
Mouth on Fire: Ask to Understand
Mouth on fire: Ask to Understand Jan. 10, 2021 This ONE THING changes the course of your life James 3:2 We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check. Most unruly part of the body? Mouths! Controlling what we say is soooo difficult James 3:3-4 We can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in its mouth. And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot…
Anticipating Immanuel: His Voice
Anticipating Immanuel – His Voice December 20, 2020 How active is God? Malachi 4:4-5 Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD. He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse Matt. 11:11,13-14 Truly I tell you, among those born of women there…
Anticipating Immanuel: His Reach
Anticipating Immanuel – His Reach December 13, 2020 Jesus came as a King better than any kind of political solution Anticipate Immanuel our King Not that great people got to come close to God People became great when God came close to them Anticipate Immanuel our God Jesus showed faith, not religiosity was the way to God The Jewish faith was never meant to be only internal Gen. 12:2-3 “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you;…