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I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice
Experiencing the mercy of God in our lives
Ready & Faithful
Looking to Jesus for help now and hope in the future
Why Suffering?
Help your church understand God's plan in pain
Embracing the freedom and unhindered faith that comes from a relationship with Jesus Christ and living in the Kingdom of God.
Today, we're gonna talk about something living an unhindered life of faith. Sometimes we feel like something's holding us back, like we're missing out on the amazing things God has for us. Well, God wants us to live free and unhindered lives, and we're gonna explore how to do that together. But ...read more
Topics: Spiritual Freedom, Unhindered Belief, Faith In Christ, Unrestricted Worship
As followers of Jesus, we face a daily choice between living for the kingdom of culture or the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God brings love, grace, and hope, while the kingdom of culture often focuses on power and control.
Today, we're going to talk about a cool story from the Bible that has a lot to do with the choices we make every day. It's about two kingdoms colliding and the tough decisions that come with it. So, let's dive in! Our story comes from John 18:28-39. It's about Jesus being brought before Pontius ...read more
Scripture: John 18:28-39
Topics: Spiritual Kingdom, Cultural Influence, Divine Rule, Secular Society
Embrace Jesus as our Savior, even when He doesn't fit our expectations.
Today, we're going to talk about something we all deal with - expectations. That refers to those things we think should happen or how things should be. Sometimes, our expectations can get in the way of seeing the real deal. So, let's dive into this idea and see how it connects to Jesus and our ...read more
Scripture: John 18:36
Topics: Divine Recognition, Expectation Vs Reality, Jesus' Identity, Spiritual Perception
The things of this world cannot satisfy. Only the things of God can do so.
Series: Big 10 “SATISFIED” EXODUS 20:17 OPEN It was the middle of the night. Keith Richards, guitarist for the Rolling Stones, had a musical riff playing in his head. He woke up, grabbed his guitar and a tape recorder, recorded the tune and then went back to sleep. Their ...read more
Scripture: Exodus 20:17
Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ
Standing in the storms requires a commitment and desire for a close relationship, mant have a desire for other things
Standing In the Storm #5 Desire for "Other things" The girl knelt in the confessional and said, "Bless me, Father, for I have sinned." "What is it, child?" "Father, I have committed the sin of vanity. Twice a day I gaze at myself in the mirror and tell myself how beautiful I am." The priest ...read more
Scripture: Mark 4:7-19, Mark 4:7
Denomination: Assembly Of God
How can we invest our Treasures in Heaven?
You Can Take it With You The Time was over one hundred years ago, at the very beginning of the great Klondike Gold Rush. Two prospectors, among the very first to travel north, in 1896, came to the Yukon Territory of Canada to hunt for their gold. They knew the risks were high as there were no ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 6:24-34
Denomination: Anglican
Continuing our series in week 14 of looking at having a Single Minded focus on Christ.
Believe 14 – Single Mindedness January 25, 2015 Matthew 6:25-34 I’m not sure which I’ve heard more, men are simple minded or single minded? Maybe it’s both. I know men and I will include boys in this one who have a single minded focus. Generally speaking, if you ask a ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 6:25-34
Denomination: Baptist
The 4th in a series of messages from texts unique to Matthew’s gospel. This one deals with three parables Jesus told about the kingdom, each one showing the mixture of good and bad mixed together in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew’s Unique Message #4 The Kingdom of Heaven – A Mixed Bag Matthew 13:24-30; 47-51; 25:31-46 CHCC: July 29, 2007 INTRODUCTION: This summer I’ve been preaching sermons taken from the Gospel of Matthew. We’ve looked at several passages where Matthew gave information about the life of Jesus ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 13:24-51
When is being good not good enough? How would you define being Good? (Not being as bad as the person next to you?)
Listen: http://www.wayneamydutoit.com/Wayne/is-good-good-enough/ {Desire – to change, motivating factors / consequences / benefits} I have heard people say that that are “good” people. That if there is a God and He is a God of love that He would not throw them into hell, because ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31
Denomination: Pentecostal
There were particular qualities in Joseph that made him a good dad for Jesus and these qualities are transferrable to all dads.
MEN BEHAVING GODLY: FOUR QUALITIES OUR HEAVENLY FATHER SEEKS IN A DAD* Matthew 1:18-25 Big idea: There were particular qualities in Joseph that made him a good dad for Jesus and these qualities are transferrable to all dads. INTRO I ran across a small resource this week called “The ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25
Denomination: Nazarene
Explores the journey of the Magi, emphasizing their faith, worship, and pursuit of Christ, and encourages us to seek Jesus with similar devotion.
Good morning, dear brothers and sisters in Christ. It's a joy to gather with you today, to bask in the warmth of fellowship and the ever-glowing light of God's Word. Today, we're going to turn our hearts and minds to a story that is both familiar and full of wonder, a story that speaks of a star, ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12
Topics: Seeking
Jesus came to show us the way to His Kingdom and He is our Shepherd that will help us all to know His Father.
Looking at the WORD of God, we can see that Jesus came for us all and not for Himself. He came into this realm so that we all can be saved and the Old testament points to Jesus from the beginning and then the New testament reveals Jesus coming onto the scene. There is no denying the fact that ...read more
Scripture: Psalm 23:1, Isaiah 40:11, Genesis 48:15
The parable of the dishonest steward points to imagination and how wealth can be used for the goodness of God's kingdom in our midst.
September 22, 2019 Hope Lutheran Church Luke 16:1-13; Amos 8:4-7 Good Money after Bad Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. Every story has a main character. But sometimes that main character isn’t the person you’d expect. You can’t ...read more
Scripture: Luke 16:1-13
Denomination: Lutheran
A look at the fruit of the Spirit, goodness
Gal. 5.22 The Fruit of the Spirit: Goodness 1. [Read text]. As we continue to look at these attributes of the Spirit-filled life we come to the next one, goodness. Now a quick look at this attribute as it is used in the scriptures is again very revealing. In the Old Testament, this was a ...read more
Scripture: Jonah 5:22
Denomination: Holiness
Goodness is a great quality. This is a slight revamp of a 2006 message.
INTRODUCTION • SLIDE #1 • What do you think of when you think of goodness? • I would imagine that each one of us would have a different idea as to what it is. • Today, I want us to examine the fruit of goodness. • Whenever the subject of being good comes up, there are not too many who see ...read more
Scripture: Galatians 5:22-23
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