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    Finding Rest In The Presence Of God Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on May 31, 2024
     | 65 views

    We can experience God’s presence outside of us, and within us. God isn’t far off. He’s so close we can hardly imagine it. Many feel God is far off. They wonder… Can you really experience God? Can you really sense God’s presence? Can you really know God deeply? The answer to those 3 questions is yes.

    Does God seem far away? Many feel God is far off. They wonder… Can you really experience God? Can you really sense God’s presence? Can you really know God deeply? The answer to those 3 questions is yes. We we can experience God’s presence outside of us, and within us. God isn’t far off. He’s so ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Seasons Of Grieving: When Grief Turns To Joy Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on May 31, 2024
     | 37 views

    Grief and joy are emotions that surround transitions. Anytime a change is happening, we experience grief.

    Grief and joy, two intense extremes. What is grief? “Author Edgar Jackson poignantly describes grief: Grief is teaching yourself to go to bed without saying good night to the one who had died. Grief is the helpless wishing that things were different when you know they are not and never will be ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Remain In Christ To The End: Abiding In The Vine Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on May 31, 2024
     | 95 views

    Stay together, stay connected, stay strong, fed by the vine, bearing fruit for Jesus

    Jim Bright, an organizational psychologist did a survey asking people to give answers on different questions related to change, and how they react to change. The results were fascinating. “1. One in three people would avoid change if they could. Would you normally avoid change if you could? If ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    How To Align Your Soul With The Spirit: Discerning God's Voice From Your Inner Voice Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on May 24, 2024
     | 70 views

    Have you ever had an experience where you knew that God was telling you to do something? But part of you resists the leading of God. And you ask yourself, “Did God really say that? Or am I just making that up in my own mind?”

    I remember early on as a Christian I had a dream. I had listening to different ministries and churches and I was just learning the faith. I remember having a dream one night that I was at this church, big, with many people. But it all felt dead, empty, and I left the building. Outside the building ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Change Is Hard: God's Authority Over Transitions In Our Lives Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on May 24, 2024
     | 190 views

    Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

    There is one constant in life, it’s change. Everything changes over time. I’ve experienced numerous changes over my life. Change is often hard and awkward at first. But it can also be something that brings a lot of positives. But it never feels comfortable at the time. I remember when I first ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Guard Your Heart: Block The Evil, Bring In The Gold Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on May 24, 2024
     | 94 views

    The goal is you would notice a nugget of truth throughout the service, and stop on it, and say: "That is something I’m going to take to heart."

    Have you ever had a conversation or experience, or a moment in your life that you took to heart? You took it to heart. It impacted you so deeply that it stayed with you through your whole life. I remember numerous experiences in my life that I took to heart. It affected me in a way that it went ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    14 Stages Of The Pilgrimage Journey Of The Christian Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on May 24, 2024
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    We’re going to piece together the different pictures we created into a depiction of the Christian life from the moment we first find salvation in Jesus, to the moment we pass into the next life.

    Growing up my mother’s favorite New Year’s Eve tradition was to start and finish a puzzle. The puzzles were big and difficult. We would race against the clock, trying to complete it by midnight. Even though we were all working together, the puzzle would take hours to finish. We watched the clock ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Consumed With God: The Pursuit Of God Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Apr 23, 2024
     | 140 views

    We are consumed by God completely… while our obsession used to be selfishness and self destruction and we were very excited about that, we now pursue knowing God with abandon.

    My wife tells me that I sometimes become nearly obsessed with certain things. I get so focused on something it consumes me. I fall into the pool after staring into it too long. Are you like that? I have a bit of an obsessive, addictive personality. I want it and I want more. I want to learn more. ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Being Transformed From Glory To Glory: 7 Transitions In The Christian Life Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Apr 23, 2024
     | 192 views

    I think God gave us the caterpillar and the butterfly to tell us about ourselves. To tell us that we need a transformation to become all we’re meant to be.

    “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 But we all, with unveiled faces, looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” -2nd Cor 3:17-18 We as ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Confession & Repentance From Sins: How Does It Work? Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Apr 23, 2024
     | 138 views

    When a Christian sins they must follow the teaching of 1 John 1:9, which is speaking to believers when it says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

    "Professor Drummond once described a man going into one of our after meetings and saying he wanted to become a Christian. "Well, my friend, what is the trouble?" He doesn't like to tell. He is greatly agitated. Finally he says, "The fact is, I have overdrawn my ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Hope Again: Going From Broken To Soaring In The Storm Of Life Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Apr 18, 2024
     | 229 views

    Have you experienced a season in your life when you were broken and weary? Did it seem to go on and on? Did it seem to never end?

    My wife and I were traveling to see a musical in Charlotte, Mi Saturday. We’ve often felt a divine connection with the bald eagle. I recall numerous times when God would use the bald eagle to give me a nudge in the Spirit, or give me a sense of hope for the future. I saw eagles talon locking over ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    How To Saturate Yourself In The Word Of God Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Apr 15, 2024
     | 173 views

    We’re going to talk about how to go deeper with your Bible reading time. We will not be talking about simply reading the Bible. We will be talking about absorbing the Bible. Making the Bible part of your mind. Putting the Bible in your heart and letting it change your heart.

    “The Bible- banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it; dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it. Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it is more ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    A Fish Out Of Water Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Apr 15, 2024
     | 291 views

    “But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.” -Romans 7:6

    My wife Chelsey and I went for dinner for my birthday last night, and the restaurant was super noisy. I was already feeling a bit sensitive on my birthday as many of us do, and it got stressful for me. Many of the people were drinking, and carrying on, having a good time, or so it seemed. And I ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    How To Experience Conscious Contact With God Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Apr 15, 2024
     | 199 views

    As you learn to pray more and more, talking to God in the morning, praying over meals, praying at night, praying at mid day, praying at church, and praying at home, eventually you’ll find that something changes. You’ll realize over time, wow, my entire day is turning into a dialogue with God.

    There was an evangelist of yesteryear named Wilbur Chapman. One day he was talking to William Booth, the founder of The Salvation Army. Chapman asked Booth, “General Booth, God has used you in a great way. What is the secret of God’s use of you?” Booth moved the hair out of his face, looked at ...read more

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    Seven Spiritual Gifts In The Body Of Christ Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Apr 15, 2024
     | 164 views

    I have a body with hands, shoulders, feet, knees, eyes, ears, and all sorts of different parts. They do not all have the same function, do they? My feet do very different things from my hands. Yet they are all part of my body. They work together, not against each other.

    When examining the human body, there are numerous systems all working at the same time to regulate, protect, strengthen, and heal the human body. There is the respiratory system which brings oxygen into the body and expels carbon dioxide. The brain communicates instructions to the rest of the body. ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army