Crossroads Church of God, Lima OH

Crossroads Church of God, Lima OH

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Crossroads Church of God, Lima OH episodes

  • Heart of Gratitude: Week 2: Disciplines of Cultivate Gratitude

    1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NIV

    Philippians 4:11-13 NIV

    Romans 12:10 NIV

    Colossians 3:2-4 NIV

    Gratitude Blockers

    • Envy
    • Greed
    • Entitlement

    "To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.  Every breath we draw is a gift of his love.  Every moment of our existence is a gift of his grace.  Gratitude takes nothing for granted.  It is never unresponsive.  The grateful person knows that God is good not by hearsay, but by personal experience.”  - Thomas Merton

    Discipline of Contentment

    • Begin with praise
    • Be with others
    • Live with eternity in mind
    34 min
  • Reclaim The Day: Week 1: “Consider Your Ways"

    Patriarchs -> Slavery -> Exodus -> Judges & Kings -> Temple -> Divide -> Exile -> Temple Destroyed ->Re-build the Temple
     

    Haggai 1: 2-7 NIV

    Matthew 6:31-33 NIV

     

    4 Main Motivators

          Fame

          Wealth

          Pleasure

          Control


     

    3 Intentional Reminders

         Identity

         Mission

         Calling

    33 min
  • Prayer: Week 4: Prayer of Petition

    Scripture:

    Matthew 6:9-13 NLT

    Matthew 7:0-11 NIV

    Matthew 21:22 NIV

    James 5:15 NIV

    Matthew 7:7-8 NIV

    Philippians 4:6 NIV
     

    Quotes:

    Petitionary prayer should always remain the primary mode of prayer because we never can outgrow our dependence on God. Just as we long for our own children to share with us the petty details of their day at school, so God longs to hear from us the smallest matters of our lives. It delights him when we share. - Richard Foster, Prayer

    Love loves to be told what it knows already. It wants to be asked what it longs to give. - PT Forsyth, Soul of Prayer

    Then there are times when our prayers are simply self-contradictory, a “grant me patience” quickly kind of prayer. And finally sometimes our prayers if answered would do us in. We simply are not yet prepared for what we have asked. It is God’s grace that prevent our prayers from being answered. God withholds his gifts from us for our good. Studies have found that the act of forgiveness can reap huge rewards for your health, lowering the risk of heart attack, improving cholesterol levels and sleep, and reducing pain, blood pressure, and levels of anxiety, depression and stress, and research points to an increase in the forgiveness-health connection as you age. “There is an enormous physical burden to being hurt and disappointed,” Chronic anger puts you into a fight-or-flight mode, which results in numerous changes in heart rate, blood pressure and immune response. Those changes, then, increase the risk of depression, heart disease and diabetes, among other conditions. Forgiveness, however, calms stress levels, leading to improved health. - HopkinsMedicine.org

    Points:

    Give us what we need today

    Forgive us our sins as we forgive others

    Deliver us

    37 min

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Inviting people to apprenticeship in Christ: Learning to live by faith, transmit hope, and be known by love.