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How To Be Financially Content

1 Timothy 6:6-19

1. Christ + Contentment = Gain

2. Greed destroys contentment.

- Track your spending.

- Get a budget.

- Spend less than you make.

3. Wealth inflames arrogance.

4. Put your hope in God: Discern the temporary from the eternal.

- Hope means trust: A confident expectation that God will provide.

- Trust the giver, not the gift.

5. Generosity feeds contentment.

- Generosity counters materialism.

- Generosity imitates God.

- Gratitude and obedience lay the foundation for true generosity.

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God’s Investment Strategy

Luke 16:1-15

Strategy #1: Recognize you’re a manager, not an owner.

- Our lives—Time

- Possessions

- Money

- Relationship

- Talents

- Gospel

Strategy #2: Make the smartest investment—People’s eternity.

Strategy #3: Trust Factor—Can God trust you?

Strategy #4: Choose your master—God or Money?

Strategy #5: Final Audit—Are you ready to give an account?

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Parenting Blueprint

Ephesians 6:1-4

1. Rules without a relationship produce rebellion.

2. A relationship without rules produces chaos.

- Teaching children to obey their parents lays the foundation for a lifelong pattern of obedience to the Lord.

- Honoring parents doesn’t end at 18.

- The best thing you can do for your kid is have a good marriage.

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Sermon title: What God Says About Marriage.

Scripture: Ephesians 5:22-31

1. Marriage basics:

- God invented marriage.

- Marriage is for your happiness.

- Marriage is a picture of Christ and the church.

2. God has a design for marriage.

3. Relationships that last a lifetime are based on trust.

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Title: Words Matter

Scripture: Ephesians 4:25-32

Big Idea: Words have the power to destroy or build up relationships.

1. Speak the truth in love.

2. Avoid harmful words.

- Sarcasm

- Tone

- Cussing

- Gossip

3. Grace them up.

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TITLE: The Unoffendable Life

SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 4:25-31

MESSAGE NOTES:

Big Idea: Become unoffendable.

1. Get rid of anger.

2. Forgive quickly.

3. Give Grace.

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TITLE: State of the Church

MESSAGE NOTES:

Church is a movement of people committed to a message.

1. Jesus is the foundation of the church.

2. The church has a unique message.

3. The church has a clear mission.

Grace Community Fellowship Mission Statement: Love People Where They’re At and Help Them Follow Jesus.

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TITLE: God Has Faith in You

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 14:22-32

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SCRIPTURE: Luke 2:1-12

MESSAGE NOTES:

1. Fulfillment of prophecy

Isaiah 9:6

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

2. Everyone is invited.

Luke 2:8–12

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

3. God is with us.

Matthew 1:21–23

She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).

Enjoy hearing about the nativity story as you drive past each scene. You can pause as needed between each station along the way.