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- Hope is on the Way: God Saves
In this time of Christmas - Do we live in the Hope of the Coming Jesus? I hope you are filled with hope in the middle of all the things that surround us. That despite what other sources say and claim, you look to the Bible for truth... And in the middle of truth you will find Jesus… the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world.
So choose to Live in Hope this Christmas!
0 min - Hope is on the Way: Look and Listen
This Week, take time to look and listen for the Kingdom of God, because it is only those who have found the Kingdom who can proclaim it and lead others to it. But I suspect that if we take some time to look and listen, we will see what Jesus was saying - that the world is filled with LIFE and HEALING and in this we are to be refreshed and filled with joy!
0 min - Hope is on the Way: Signs of Life!It started as a shoot in the middle of a stump, and I believe that God is still in the process of taking old, dead things and making this new with life and growth. All of this salvation, this whole story, this church, you as a people, started with an old stump with a prophecy about a shoot that would grow out of it…We invite our community to come and allow God to plant a shoot in the middle of their stumps…We invite our church to seek the renewal of God during this Christmas season by feeling and participating in the renewal that is happening here.Just like walking through the woods and seeing the signs of life, even in the middle of winter. God points us to signs of newness, even in the profound presence of the old.During this season of Christmas, remember that Christ has come as promised long ago to unleash God’s Kingdom in which we now participate. One day God will make all things new, but until that day we hold onto the promise that… “There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.”0 min
- Hope is on the Way: Get Ready!
We must consider a future orientation, and this is especially true during this season of Christmas. After all, Christ came to set us free from our past: being victims of time and slaves to our memories. The surest way to stop dwelling on the past is to look at what is certain about the future.
0 min - Ministry of ComfortF)">Blessed be the G)">God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and H)">God of all comfort, I)">who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.0 min
- Unwavering Peace
If you asked people to learn from you, listen to you, watch you, and follow you on social media…
What would they put into practice?Would the God of Peace be with them?Would the Peace of God guard their hearts and minds?If we want to be mature followers of Jesus, then we need to be a people who have within them an unwavering peace…We need to be examples of this unwavering peace in a world reeking of chaos…0 min - Unwavering Focus
The danger we face is in confusing what we do with what God does. This danger comes in believing that how we worship saves us and having the proper church organization, or proper processes, saves us. Therefore the focus is placed on what we have done and are doing and we are warned by Paul not to fall into that trap. We may arrive at the belief that what we do will earn our salvation. We then possess pride in our religious practices and loose sight of God's work. We find ourselves relying on our own power to gain salvation. All of our efforts, all of our heritage, and all of our achievements fall short of God’s standard, and without Christ, we have nothing!
0 min - Unwavering Service
The lesson pf Philippians 2 is about a truth that is true whether we choose to feel it or not.
God is not glorified by our success…God is glorified by our service.And that is what we all must press on towards, even in times when we feel unsuccessful for we know that God will bring good out of our service to him.0 min - Unwavering Gospel
We have chosen to participate in the Gospel, and the truth I must tell you today is that we do not control the Gospel, but the Gospel controls us. When we enter the story of crucifixion and resurrection, we are in the process of dying to our own desires; to our own script and allowing God’s will to be done; God’s story to be written into our lives!
The Point is, the gospel is unwavering, it will be advanced...The challenge I have for you this morning is to make sure you are standing firm in your commitment to the gospel, despite the short-term consequences.When we suffer, not by consequences of our own actions, but because life throws something at us or enemies of Jesus Christ seek to humiliate us, we are participating in the gospel when we stand firm in our faith and praise God in the midst of the chaos.
0 min - How To Follow a Leader
Do you trust that God is working in this place among these people?
Do you trust that God is working through this process? (if not, why are you not letting God work?)Do you trust that God is working through the leaders of this church?A leader once said, “Nothing can be most absurd then the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.” - Plato
Leadership allows us all to move in the same direction, under the same guidance, and good leadership empowers and inspires all of us to be creative within the guidelines established.
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