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We either worship God, or we worship God-Substitutes. There is no way to worship nothing. We were designed with worship as part of who we are, we will ascribe glory to something, and at all times, we are… The question is, what do we do when we have...
At times, fighting sin and beholding Jesus seems helpless... What are we to do? What would help us to focus more on Jesus and his gospel?
Listen here as Mission's Elder and Worship Pastor, Aaron Alvarado, teaches from Psalm 8.
We grow impatient with God, no matter how Sovereign we know he is. We idolize and worship the gifts that God has given us instead God himself. We have hearts that are constantly far from our Father. We need to see the grace and mercy of God to us...
When suffering comes to us, what gives us motivation to stand? What gives us strength to keep going? In this life of suffering, disease, hunger, cancer, fights, persecution, and death, what hope do we have?
If you could summarize the reason for your existence in one sentence, what would it be? What is your purpose? Why are you here? Do you know?
Peter is about three months away from being crucified when he writes this letter, and the people he is...
This is a letter written by the Apostle Peter. Peter was one of Jesus’ disciples, which means everywhere that Jesus went, Peter went, and at all times, Jesus was teaching Peter and the other disciples all about the Kingdom of Heaven and what it looks...
C.S. Lewis said, “The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
Suffering is horrible, but the truth that God is giving us in our text this morning is that it is better! For it is better to suffer...
Imagine: You are a Christian, but because of your belief in Christ, you are blamed for the burning down of Dallas. And so now, fellow believers that you know in Dallas are being torched and killed, and the Mayor is laughing and loving it all. You are...
What would make you love your life? What is it that gives you life? Is it coffee? Is it good food? Would living in the mountains with trees and snow do it? Would living on the beach in a hut with all-inclusive benefits do it? What if you retired and...
The reason for the whole letter is found in chapter 5 which we will get to by the end of 2020, but it says this, “I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. rStand firm in it.” Despite everything...
A life of no suffering here on earth is an upside down truth. Acts 14:22 says: Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. And the Biblical truth from our passage this morning… Is that it is our CALL… to suffer. Believers in the room...
The Westminster Shorter Catechism says that man’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. However, our nature is one of selfishness and pride and that can mean one of two things. Either pride tells us I don’t have to live subject to anyone...
Believers, there are unbelievers watching you simply because you claim the name of Christ and what our passage is telling us is that the stakes of what they see are eternal. They may glorify God as their Savior. What actions do they see from you?
Our passage is a glimpse into what God is calling us to be, the person that God is making us into in the work of sanctification.
Our text this morning is a call for us to be like newborn infants for the sake of our spiritual growth. It is a call to cry out, to long for the spiritual milk that provides spiritual growth. Think of sanctification. Do you want to read your Bible and...
This passage is a help for all of us. It is a simple, yet profoundly strong call to love one another. Paul writes about all of the spiritual gifts and how they are amazing things to desire, but at the end of the description of them all, including...
Our text today calls us to conduct ourselves with fear. Psalm 147 describes fear this way: the LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love. So then, to fear, is to stand in awe of God Almighty, to take refuge in...
When Leah and I got married, I became the guy for all the oil changes on the cars, all of the protection, all of the stuff around the house that needs fixing (and Leah I’m pretty sure thought either all men were Chip Gaines, or that at the very least...
God, through Peter, is encouraging us to look at salvation as greater than anything else in the world. When Peter writes this, he’s focusing attention to the thing that should matter more than anything else. If salvation is what God says it is, then...
A promise from the Bible is that believers will suffer. But it is a work of God to make us look like Jesus. So now, we can rejoice in our suffering.
For those who long to be home, for those who do not conform to the values and worldview of this present evil age, for the exiles, the sojourners, the strangers of this world… God is encouraging us to live as exiles here on earth.
In Genesis 33, we are going to see old habits come back up in this Jacob’s life and in it, we see a picture of the Christian life. Sometimes, there is obedience and faith and walking by the Spirit in the power of God… And then other times, there is...
Jacob is at the ultimate crossroads and something has to change… what does he do? He prays. He wrestles with God until God blesses him. And we see the truth of the passage. If anything in our lives is going to be God-transformed, if anything in our...
We see God showing up to Jacob, his son, his family, the man through whom the lineage of Christ will be, and he says to him, “Go. Go back to your homeland.” And that very call is of the original call which is to go and I will bless you SO THAT you...
If I could just go back to high school to focus on school and getting good grades. If I could just go back and not date that person. If I could just go back and not watch Napoleon Dynamite. Or future, if I could just get that job. If I could just have...
The disciples just lost all of the joy they had as they were walking with Jesus. If you look at v.41, they disbelieved for joy. Why? Jesus just died. Their Messiah, the one they have been waiting on for hundreds of years, the supposed Savior of the...
It was June of the year of our Lord 2015. Leah and I had just gotten married and were coming back from out honeymoon, when it all hit me like a jackhammer to the spleen. My stomach picked up a hitchhiker because I drank some of the water down there in...
We all want to be loved. And I think if we all had the same definition, we would say that we all want to be blessed. Compiled from all of the references in the Bible, the word blessed means the happy state of those who find purpose and fulfillment in...
Imagine staying the night in a home you do not know, where little creatures go bump in the night and where sounds are super scary… This is what happened to Leah and I one night when we babysat for a certain family, I won’t say any names. I have told...
God will allow circumstances outside of our ability to affect us: maybe our health starts to decline, maybe our marriage is in a place of constant stress right now and all we can seem to do is argue, maybe we have kids who make pickets signs after...
Do me a favor and complete this sentence in your head for me: Life will have meaning for me if ________. The answer to that question, the words you fill in to that blank will show you what it is you truly treasure in this life and thus, where you...
What are you going to do the moment you realize you are breathing your last breath? Some indigenous populations of Mexico deal with it by throwing a festivity that has been around for 3,000 years or so known as Dia La Muertos, or for my gringos in the...
Lorenzo Elizondo, Pastor of Life Point Church in Oak Cliff, Texas takes us through Nehemiah 6:1-9.
I stood at the end of the aisle, awaiting my beautiful bride… And I almost couldn’t take it. She had a long walk where I could have seen her, before she got to the fake door in the grass at the beginning of the aisle, so Eric, the man who married us...
Faith will always have death involved. It is a sad truth of life, one that cannot be evaded… So, our question becomes, with our faith in mind, how do we handle the death of those around us? How do we deal with death, in faith?
From God’s Word in...
A man was walking along the side of a huge cliff when some rock unsettled and sent him tumbling down the cliffside. Only a few feet down, he was able to grab a tree branch and he held on for dear life.
In a panic, he calls out above himself to the...
There was a man who was very successful in his job, so much so, he was famous across the globe… However, on one odd day as he was driving through an old country town, this man was speeding, going way too fast, and he ended up wrecking his car along...
My little brother Luke was born when I was 20, so I got to see a lot of him from age 0-3ish, and pretty much every time Luke was scared of something, he would come running into my room and jump into my lap or grab my hand. It was always real...
Faith means repentance. Following God by faith means that repenting of our sins. In fact, the very first word out of Jesus’ mouth when he begins his ministry is: “Repent.”
Why? Acts 3:19 says: Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be...
Travis Cunningham, Groups Minister of the Village Church in Flower Mound, Tx, takes us through 1 Peter 1:3-5!
“Yo, God. Uh… I know I haven't really ever spoken to you, at least not in a while… But uh… Don’t let these bimbo cheerleaders get my friend, Katrina, down.”
This, sadly, was the beginning of one of the very first prayers I remember praying...
For three years, I worked at the Forney ChickFilA and I got to meet some amazing friends, one of my best friends of my life came from my time there, but there were also people that I hated working with.
One in particular was a girl named Lauren. I...
When I got married and had to start making big boy decisions, life changed a lot for me… Just some things that had to change, I made a list: No more shorts that hit mid-calf (per Leah’s request) No more wearing all of the same color to match (per...
I am an impatient man most days… But I am on a whole other level when it comes to traffic.
One day, when I was in high school, I was on my way to get my friend Bradley, I called him B-Rad, from his house and we were going to ride to school...
One Saturday evening, I had the scariest night of my existence. Leah and I got the chance to babysit for Chris and Brandy Moore, and we got to watch little Penelope and Simon, this was before Noah was even here. BUT this was no ordinary babysitting...
Listen to the sermon from Sunday as Travis Cunningham, Groups Minister at The Village Church in Flower Mound, teaches from Genesis 14.
You and I will experience fighting between us and people we love and sometimes, it will cause us to have to separate.
This isn't the way it should be, but sadly, it is the way it is realistically. The question is, what are we supposed to do...
Last week, we saw that Abram had the faith to up and leave his home and family in order to follow God’s call to a land that he did not say where and it was a great faith. Abram at this point in the narrative is kind of the poster boy for faith. What...
I was sitting at the table at the Red Lobster in Greenville, Texas, sweating profusely, heart beating out of my chest, BECAUSE I was sitting there at the table with Leah’s parents, about to ask them the most important question of my life up to that...
Once upon a time, my little brother, who was 10 at the time, decided that he had had enough and he yelled to my parents that he was going to run away. He said that he was tired of the way that my parents were parenting me. I still don't get...
I don't like to yell at little kids.
But when I was a wee little tot, about 10-11… Maybe 15… My dad was the coach of my little brother’s soccer team and I think he felt bad that I had to go to all of the tournaments with a van full of crazy...
“You’ve got to be kidding me. I’ve got to get out of here!”… Is what I said on my date with a girl named Alyssa.
You see, I asked Alyssa out to a fancy restaurant… Chili’s… You can have anything you want… on the 2 for 20 menu… water for her, and...
What am I supposed to do now?
I was a brand new believer in Jesus Christ and I was all about this new life I was getting to experience.
But then I sinned.
This new life that I had, the perfect life, was now marred and stained by my sin...
When I still lived at home with my parents, I woke up one morning with a piercing pain in my stomach. This wasn't any ordinary pain from gluttony and bad decisions. This one felt deeper.
So, like any good American, I made a terrible...
I was having breakfast with a friend of mine when I received a call from my sweet wife.
An animal had gotten under our house by way of a crawlspace hole on the back of the house and was scratching the wood and pipes under our bathroom where my...
Ever since I can remember, I have always wanted a nice lawn... But being a recently new homeowner, I honestly did not realize what exactly I was asking for when it comes to weeds.
Our back yard is a weed forest; I actually am not sure there is...
Back when I still lived at home with my parents and brothers, I was tasked with watching my baby brother, Luke while my parents went to the grocery store.
Luke, 2, was pretty easy to watch as a kid, but this day he was especially tough because of...
When I was 7, I scored my very first goal in soccer. I was running around pretty aimlessly before I ended up with the ball, and then I was stiff-arming people, juking kids out, it was a visceral experience for me!
Soccer moms were yelling for me...