Woodbury Church of Christ Sermons

Paul talks about himself serving the church.  He also shares that our motivation and our power to serve comes through Christ.  Jesus is for everyone.

Jesus is everything we need. He is the great reconciler.

We love stuff. New stuff, more stuff, different stuff. But, even more than money, Jesus talked about stuff and our relationship with it.

Generosity is about rewiring our hearts. We fundamentally change our relationship, not just with stuff but the way we even think about ownership. It's not actually ours anyway.

Even though we want to be generous, we are REALLY good at talking ourselves out of actually BEING generous. In one of the most thoughtful and sophisticated passages on generosity, Paul directly addresses all our excuses.

Do we believe there is enough? Do we believe God is a generous God? Do He will provide what we consciously (or unconsciously) believe about those questions will make ALL the difference to whether we are generous-hearted people.

The Hope we find in Jesus Christ brings a reward that is better than any earthly thing. The apostle Peter tells us how we, too, can experience the Hope built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness.

God's heart has not changed. There is not a substantial difference in content between the Old and New Testaments, but the attitude which we have toward others and the power by which we live it out is extremely different.

Just about everything we do is in the pursuit of happiness. Yet most people are LESS happy than ever. Maybe it's time to stop stumbling around and actually listen to what Jesus said about finding life.