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Peter's final call to a young and growing church
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Gifts, risk, and the return of the King
Emphasize the importance of hospitality, welcoming Jesus into our lives, and the rewards that come from offering kindness and compassion to others.
Good morning, church family! Today, we're going to dive into a passage from the book of Matthew that teaches us about the power of hospitality, the blessing of welcoming Jesus, and the reward of offering a cup of cold water. As Henri Nouwen once said, "Hospitality means primarily the creation of ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 10:40-42
Topics: Hospitality
Explores God's perfect timing, as illustrated in the wedding at Cana story, encouraging us to trust in His divine schedule and plan.
Good morning, family! It's always such a blessing to be able to gather together like this, isn't it? We're all here, in this place, ready to learn and grow together. I'm just tickled pink to have the chance to share with you something that's been on my heart recently. Before we get into the meat of ...read more
Scripture: John 2:1-8
Topics: Dirty, Transformed
This sermon explores maintaining faith in Jesus amidst life's storms, overcoming fear, and deepening our relationship with Him through our struggles.
Good morning, beloved congregation. I welcome you all, as we gather here today, not by accident, but by divine appointment. An appointment set by our loving Heavenly Father, who, in His infinite wisdom, has brought us together to share in His Word. Our focus today is the story of Peter walking on ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 14:29-30
Topics: Focus
A study in the book of Deuteronomy 29: 1 – 29
Deuteronomy 29: 1 – 29 Wormwood keeps showing up 29 These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He made with them in Horeb. 2 Now Moses called all Israel and said to them: “You have seen all ...read more
Denomination: Calvary Chapel
Let’s be honest: sometimes people hurt us. We get put down, run down, and trampled on. And it becomes easy to want to get revenge. And it’s even easier to become bitter. But bitterness is a disease. And if we’re not careful, this disease of bitternes
REMEDY The Remedy for Bitterness “Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it” Harry Emerson Fosdick (American clergyman 1878-1969) Key Scripture: Romans 12:14-21 Icebreaker: During the Korean war a certain military unit had hired a local boy to cook and clean for them. Being a bunch of ...read more
Scripture: Romans 12:14-21
Denomination: Church Of God
In this final chapter, we will see that Jonah struggled with resentment Sometimes we may find ourselves in a similar situation. And so the question that I want God’s Word to answer for us today is, how do we recover from resentment?
Recovering from Resentment Jonah 4:1-11 This morning we’re going to look at the conclusion of the book of Jonah. Now I have to admit, I was tempted to stop where we left off last week…where we saw the outpouring of God’s Spirit through the revival in Nineveh. That seems like a ...read more
Scripture: Jonah 4:1-11
Denomination: Baptist
To show what are the consequences of not forgiving someone.
I. EXORDIUM: Do you have an unforgiving spirit? II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To show what are the consequences of not forgiving someone. IV. TEXT: Mark 11:26 (Amplified Bible) 11:26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your failings and ...read more
Scripture: Mark 11:26
Denomination: Pentecostal
Many times our past holds us back from a great relationship with Christ. This message trys to get us to focus on what God has in store for us.
Jesus makes a very simple statement that relates to a very big problem: our ability to walk away from our old life. This statement to remember Lot’s wife is sandwiched between Jesus’ discussion on how God’s judgment came upon man while he went through his everyday life thinking of the great things ...read more
Scripture: Luke 17:32, Luke 17:32-33
Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ
Message 12 drawn from Israel's murmuring in the desert for forty years shows how complaining is an insult to God's gifts to us,andd is destructive in the home and in the church.
Moses 12 THOU SHALT NOT BELLY-ACHE Exodus 15:22-19:1 16:7 “He (God) has heard your murmurings against the Lord. For who are we (Moses and Aaron) that you can murmur against us. Psalm 106:25 “They grumbled in their tents and did not obey the Lord.” Numbers ...read more
God can heal and restore anything -- from a heavily irradiated forest to the bitterness in your own heart.
Jehovah Rophe - God Our Healer On Saturday, April 26, 1986, an experiment was under way in the city of Pripyat, Ukraine. This experiment was designed to test how the local nuclear power plant would react following a complete loss of main electrical power. The power plant had 4 nuclear reactors, ...read more
Scripture: Exodus 15:22-26
Denomination: Assembly Of God
Bitterness is an emotion that can eat us from the inside out like poison or cancer. Like the biblical character Joseph, there are things we can do to keep bitterness from destroying us.
A. Abe Lemons was head basketball coach at the University of Texas for six years starting in 1976. 1. Lemons turned the Texas Longhorn basketball program around, but when DeLoss Dodds took over as the athletic director they soon were butting heads, and at the end of the 1982 season, Dodds fired ...read more
Scripture: Hebrews 12:14-15, Ephesians 4:31-32, Matthew 6:12-15, Luke 6:27-28
The sermon's main point is to emphasize the importance of forgiveness, letting go of resentment and bitterness, and trusting in God's divine direction to move forward without quarreling, as instructed in Genesis 45:24.
Good morning, friends! We are gathered here to explore some profound wisdom from the Book of Genesis. Together, we'll navigate through the murky waters of resentment and bitterness, the urgency of moving forward without quarreling, and the absolute necessity of trusting in God's divine direction ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 45:24
Topics: Bitterness, Resentment
Psalm 137 begins with heart-breaking pathos and ends with shocking hostility.
Psalm 137 begins with heart-breaking pathos and ends with shocking hostility. The children of Israel were taken by force from their homeland, a place given them by God. In captivity they sat by the edge of the Euphrates and wept, overcome with despair. Anyone who has suffered a significant loss ...read more
Scripture: Psalm 137:1-9
Denomination: Congregational
When we feel disappointment in life, we blame our own expectations, we blame those who love us, and ultimately we blame God. Repentance and acceptance of grace takes us away from self and toward contentment.
Those of you who attempt to grow gardens know that it takes infinite patience and infinite hope to be a gardener. It takes infinite patience because it can be a great deal of work and a lot of expense and much waiting to get any kind of results. Incidentally, I dispute the notion that you can ...read more
Scripture: Micah 7:1-9
The bitterness that we feel when we first realise what we have done is compared to the bitterness of losing an only son. Perhaps in this we begin to understand what it cost the LORD God to secure the free gift of our salvation.
GRACE, REPENTANCE, FORGIVENESS. Zechariah 12:10; Zechariah 13:1. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ loved us before we loved Him (1 John 4:19). God ‘so loved’ us that He sent His Son Jesus into this world to die for our sins (John 3:16). Christ died and rose again, and ever intercedes ...read more
Scripture: Zechariah 13:1, Zechariah 12:10
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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