Sermons on Worldview
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…
The Pop Pulpit – Part 3
Popular Culture Has Reality Wrong What drives the values behind secular culture is spiritual 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. Many even Christians are racked by doubt because of the world we live in. Hundreds of years ago it would be strange to find someone who doubted, now it is difficult to find someone who doesn’t doubt.” – Mark Sayers…
The Pop Pulpit – Part 2
How important is freedom to you? Secularism is a cultural framework that works against belief and undermines anything supernatural Two kinds of truth:Opinion Truth: True for you Unchanging Truth: True for everyone Getting Reality Wrong – will destroy your life This Culture’s Religion “Feels Truth” The world’s secular culture is spiritually driven 1 John 5:19 We know that we are children of God and that the world around us is under the control of the evil one. We hate the World’s…
The Pop Pulpit – Part 1
Wrong beliefs can ruin your life Getting Reality Wrong – will destroy your life We are all preached to by secular culture every single day “These beliefs have not so much been argued as assumed. They are not enforced: rather imbibed. We do not receive them as intellectual propaganda to be obey, Instead these beliefs are communicated to us at an almost subconscious level through the high priests of advertising and techno prophets of Silicon Valley” (Mark Sayers) Getting reality…
You Were Here
A message from Dave to those who are on the way to God. When you move away from the church, what are you moving towards?
Worthy – Part 1
God is God and I will always owe him my worship Evil Drives Most of World Culture Moralistic Therapeutic Deism God wants people to be good, nice, and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions. (Moralistic) The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself (Therapeutic ) Religion should help people feel good about themselves God does not need to be particularly involved in one’s life except when he is needed…
Tough as Nails – Part 2
What does the religion of today preach? Jesus is not politically correct, he is just correct Be aware of the battle (Understand the times) ! Chron. 12:32 from Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do Be aware of the battle in your own beliefs God’s truth may feel wrong Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? Read the Bible/ Confess Sin/ Listen to Spirit More than be aware? Do we fight…
Tough as Nails – Part 1
What is the national religion of Canada? SecularismBelief in God – polytheistic agnosticism Values – tolerant agreementTruth – my feelings make it true The World consists of values that are antithetical to God 1 John 2:15-17 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world…