What worries you? What causes you stress and frustration? Are you able to turn off your anxieties before bed? Jesus promises a peace that surpasses all understanding. This is a demonstration of God’s power that every Christian can experience. The peace of God can guard every believer’s heart and mind. The faith that comes through Jesus Christ gives believers a new way of positive thinking. This thinking is the reasonableness that Paul instructed Christians to make known to everyone. Within this context, Paul revealed that he learned to be content with little or much. The apostle declared, “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.” Consider what Paul really meant by this famous passage. Lesson by Scott Shifferd. Recorded June 5, 2016 at the Dean Road church of Christ in Jacksonville, FL.

Her cousin adopted her as his own daughter when her parents died. She would grow to become a beautiful woman who would become the queen of the empire that ruled the world. With her power came the opportunity to save her people by risking her life. Her adoptive father, Mordecai, expressed to Queen Esther, “And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” (Esth 4:12b). Esther demonstrated qualities that every Christian, man or woman, should desire to represent Jesus Christ. What were those qualities?

Sharing appears to come natural to children. From a Christian home, children have a Gospel-tented perspective of the world. For them, sharing Jesus and His love is obvious and organic. Sharing the Gospel means more than evangelism. Giving the Gospel includes giving to the church’s eternal mission. The church’s eternal purpose is to proclaim the excellencies of God and make disciples of all the nations baptizing them and teaching them all that Christ commanded (Matt 28:19–20; Eph 3:9–10; 1 Pet 2:9). In Philippians 1, the apostle Paul revealed that giving to mission works is a participation in the Gospel, and that such fellowship brings great joy (Phil 1:3–7). How can Christians further advance the Gospel and increase their joy? Give.

Tired from a long journey, Jesus rested by Jacob’s well. Jesus asked from a woman at the well, “Give me a drink.” After her surprise, Jesus turned the conversation to offering her living water and then responding to her question about worship. Jesus revealed that God desires true worshipers who worship in Spirit and truth. What is worship in Spirit and truth? This sermon looks closely at the worship that Jesus proclaimed.

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