crossroads

1 Corinthians 13:13

We spend a lot of time in church talking about faith and love, but not much talking about hope. We all need to strengthen our hope.

1 Kings 19:1-18

If you want to build hope in your life, you have to:

• Remember
• Reinforce
• You can't live by someone else's faith, but you can certainly rest in its shadow.
• Refocus
• From the natural to the SUPERnatural
• Look for the glimmers
• Live in the glimmers
• Open your eyes
• Worship
• Denounce the Delusions

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Colossians 2:1-7

What does it look like to "spring forward" in different areas of our lives?

• Grow down
• Spring forward
• Get more light
• Strive for new growth

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What is an allergy? An allergy is where your body reacts strongly to something that may be harmless to others. We all experience spiritual allergies… things that aren't sins in and of themselves, but that can lead to bad decisions… Things that overwhelm our spiritual immune system. How do we deal with spiritual allergies?

• Avoid
• 1 Thessalonians 5:22
• Proverbs 4:14-15
• Praise
• 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
• Change your focus
• Philippians 4:8
• Support, encouragement, and accountability
• Proverbs 27:17
• Hebrews 10:23-25

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Prayer

Matthew 21:13a

Most Christians don't pray, or don't pray very much. We miss out on the power of the one who says to us, "I'm right here listening." So what does it really take to grow in prayer?

• Pray
• Pray consistently
• Pray continually
• Pray for others first
• Pray first

Maturity

1 Corinthians 13:4-13

How do we grow in maturity?

• Identify the childish
• Get an outside perspective
• Identify maturity
• Move

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Daniel 3:7-18

We all have some kind of faith, or we wouldn't be going to church or listening to sermons. So what does it look like to grow in this faith:

• Life change
• Moving from noun to verb
• Becoming an "even if" Christian

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2 Peter 1:5-8

Colossians 3:12-14

John 15:13

Love Is much more than a feeling. It is a choice. And because of that, it presents us opportunities to grow. To grow in LOVE is to:

• Grow in the ability to give our lives to others.
• Grow in the ability to give our lives to others who don't like us.
• Grow in the ability to give our lives to others who are against us.

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Luke 11:33-36

Having a dirty windshield is a lot like having sin in your life. Sin makes it hard to follow God in much the same way that a dirty windshield makes it harder to see where you're driving.

• Sin makes it hard to see
• Clean the Inside
• Deal with the damage

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Matthew 11:28-30

Genesis 2:1-3

Deuteronomy 5:12-15

Psalm 46:10a

As we long to be our own god, we wear ourselves out until our souls are weary. Only by taking up Christ's yoke can we find rest. There are several categories we should consider for rest:

• Find rest from your work
• Find rest from your striving
• Find rest from your battle

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Matthew 5:9

For a lot of us, it's much easier and much more common for us to be troublemakers rather than peacemakers. But if we want to follow Jesus, we have to go against that temptation. There are four ways we can endeavor to be peacemakers:

• Make peace with people
• Make peace between people
• Make peace with your circumstances
• Make peace with God

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Matthew 25:31-40

The idea of worship is so much more than something that happens for a couple hours on a Sunday morning. It encompasses our whole lives - all that we do for ourselves and for others. The way we treat one another becomes the way we worship God. There are several ways we should think about how to worship outside the church:

• Worship through my relationships
• Worship with my service
• Worship in the giving of grace

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