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What Does God Want?
Contributed by Carl Benge on Apr 21, 2009 (message contributor)
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1. Renewing Ourselves
Contributed on Apr 21, 2009
This is the first of a 9 part sermon series on learning how to know what God wants for our lives.
Today we begin a sermon series exploring What God wants? This is an age old question that Jews, Christians, Muslims, and a variety of religions have explored throughout the ages. Despite all the lofty interpretations, and educated guesses only one man has ever brought us what God wants for our ...read more
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2. What Does God Want? Do Justice, Love Kindness, Be Humble Before God
Contributed on Apr 27, 2009
Second week of the sermon series what does God want This week focuses on God’s Call to the Judeans through the prophet Micah
Last we began a walk through the scriptures to answer the age old question What Does God Want? We began our walk with the prophet Isaiah, where God called Judeans to repentance, and truly accept Yahweh into their hearts before they began to pray to God for to work in their lives rather than for ...read more
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3. What Does God Want? Freedom Through Forgiveness
Contributed on May 6, 2009
How forgiveness is a two way street and how God wants us to forgive and be forgiven to break the cycle.
Over the past two weeks we have explored the message that God wants us to be repentive, loving kindness , seeking a holy justice for all, as well as being in humble love with God. Today Jesus brings us another message from God, and that message is He has come to deliver people from ...read more
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4. What Does God Want? Blessed Are Those..
Contributed on May 15, 2009
How God wants us to be doers not wanters. That we are not entitled but are granted living through his grace.
05102009 Blessed Are Those… We might shake our heads at such blatant hypocrisy, but the truth is most people fail to live up to their own Words. One prime example of this might be Karl Marx who wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848. Marx’ had --- and still has --- millions of followers. His ...read more
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5. What Does God Want? Remain In Me, And I Will Remain In You
Contributed on May 27, 2009
About being faithful to what God wants for our lives
Later today many of us will be attending commencement ceremonies for high school and college graduates. When I read today’s scripture I was reminded of the sermon I gave at the Baccalaureate last Sunday evening. I explained to the students that what ever they do in life reflects back on their ...read more
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6. Living Examples Of Jesus And His Teachings
Contributed on Jun 22, 2009
This is week 6 of a 9 week sermon series expressing what God wants for our lives.
SLOW AND STEADY The power of the Holy Spirit is not just for salvation, but transformation, a process that might be slow and gradual. The difference might look like this: You can take ten gallons of gasoline and release a tremendous amount of power and energy by just dropping a lighted match into ...read more
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7. For Us To Be Useful
Contributed on Jun 22, 2009
Week 7 of the 9 Week sermon Series on What Does GOd Want.
If you put five monkeys in a cage and hang a banana on a string at the top of the cage with a ladder leading up to it, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the monkeys with cold water. After a while, another ...read more
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8. He Has A Plan For Us
Contributed on Jul 4, 2009
God’s purpose for our lives
Many islands in the Pacific Ocean appear to be tiny points of land that rise only a few thousand feet above sea level. Yet the foundations of those peaks extend for miles underwater. In fact, if measured from their base, some would tower above the Himalayas. In a similar way, the salvation that ...read more
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9. Come To The Father And Tell The Good News
Contributed on Jul 4, 2009
Week 9 the final Week of the Sermon Series it ties in all the that has been spoken in the past 8
Here we are at the last week of our series, we have taken a trek through the Bible exploring what God wants for us and our Church. In this trek we have begun a transformation process into seeing how God is at work in our lives and how that work can make a huge difference in the lives of those ...read more