Derek J. Murphy Ministries

From 2 Kings 4:16, Pastor D discusses the downside of living in Shunem, a place of "I'm good," in this closing message of our summer series, EVEN THE BEST OF US: HURT, HANG UPS, & HABITS.

Using a short hip hop history lesson, and a fishing story from Luke 5:1-11, Pastor D illustrates how Jesus comes to challenge our habits and status quo.

In this message, Pastor D uses 4 biblical stories to show us how God confronts our hang ups. You are almost certain to see yourself somewhere in this message.

Pastor D uses the miracle healing of the blind man in Mark 8:22-26, to help us not to allow our hang ups to make us complacent in a place where we aren't fully satisfied.

This is the introductory message of the second leg of our summer series, EVEN THE BEST OF US; discussing "hang ups" through the story of Haman. (Esther 3:1-6)

The story of the "Good Samaritan", in Luke 10:30-35, gives us a great example of how to deal with those who have encountered hurt, through no fault of their own. Pastor D helps us connect the dots from Jesus' parable, to those who are experiencing, mental, emotional, or spiritual pain.

Pastor D. uses Mark 5:25-34 to introduce this year's summer series, EVEN THE BEST OF US, by discussing the general concepts of hurt, hang-ups and habits, as well as how to get passed them.