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God didn't leave us to guess how to respond and relate to Him. He loves us so much He made a way and gave us instructions, and desires intimacy with us. The question for us is will we hear and obey?
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We are called to be conquerors not to coexist in this world.
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We were created, saved, and called for good works.
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Walk the tightrope of intimacy with God, it requires grace and truth.
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As God's children we have access to the greatest Father.
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Jesus did not come into the world to condemn it but to save it, and calls us to do the same.
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Don't be intensely anxious about your needs, be intensely concerned for the needs of others.
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Prayer is intimacy with the Father for the glory of the Father
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Don't give to be praised, give to glorify.
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The transformative power of love is our greatest weapon against our enemies.
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Don't be deceitful, be so trustworthy that you are believable without any appeal.
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Treasure intimacy not personal pleasure
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The Gospel affects relationships
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Personal obedience to God's instructions results in greater personal intimacy with God and reveals His glory to our communities resulting in greater experiences of worship and joy.
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Don't try to blend in, when you were born to stand out.
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Salvation is not the destination, but the beginning of the journey of restoration in us and through us.
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God did a work in us, and for us.
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We have all fallen short of the glory of God, but Jesus made a way. Abide in your relationship with God, Don't flirt with temptation, fight it, fight for intimacy.
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God is powerful, personal, and persistent.
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A relationship with God is possible through vision from God
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Give all of who you are to Yahweh
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Your expectations affect your experience, and past experiences affect your expectations.
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Greater knowledge of God leads to greater confidence in our faith resulting in more exstatic worship.
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The road to Bethlehem is not a journey to a place but to a person, and a relationship.
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"The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people" Titus 2:15
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The church leader is to imitate Christ, serving an empowering those they lead.
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Our identity in Christ results in an obligation to follow and obey God as well as authority to work in His mission to save the world.
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God calls us to action to which a response is necessary and empowered.
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Your perspective affects your outcome
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Your past does not determine your future, but it is never wasted and can be used to serve others.
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Faith is not just a thought but an outlook, perspective, it involves expectation that causes action.
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God has called us to be worldly Christians, living in and actively engaging with the world.
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What does God want from us?
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The story of Jonah 3 is one of revival! Revival starts with one but never ends there. Three points to consider in focusing on Nineveh this week: God's call, the message, and their response.
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Being a follower of God does not mean you have arrived, it means you are in process, and you don't have to wait till you've got your life together before God can use you to do the miraculous.
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The Lord is my Salvation. This sermon discusses the text of Jonah 2, the runaway prophets prayer to God from the belly of a large fish.
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Jonah's response to God's call was the recipe for disaster, but the recipe for resting in peace eternally with God has to do with running towards God wholeheartedly, investing in that relationship from the bottom of our heart involving every area of our life, and living in a position of submission to His will.
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Living out our faith is ultimately about maintaining intimacy with God. James last words in his letter were to depend on God in all situations, expect God to do miraculous work in us and through us, and like Alijah we are able to be used by God to complete His mission.
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Who we are at our core determines what we strive for. What are your goals, what is your purpose? Remember you only life forever.
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The source of our wisdom is ultimately an intimacy issue. Who you belong to, are aligned with, is where your wisdom will be derived from.
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This sermon is on James 3:1-12 discussing the power of our words.
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A faith that has done something in you will do something through you. The question posed in this text is what kind of faith saves? The answer given, a living active faith that responds and obeys the Father that has created, called, and empowered the faithful.
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In God's kingdom He is the only one to be given glory, and all humanity is to be loved and respected as image bearers of our great creator.
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The word of God reveals our identity, it acts as a mirror, calling us to respond and part of the mission of revealing it's message to others.
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Our natural bent is to be quick to respond, in fact quick wit is often praised in our culture, but in the Bible we find a call to be quick to understand and slow to respond.
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God is generous and gives us new birth through Jesus
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Let your perspective guide you rather than your circumstances. God's kingdom is upside down, the humble should boast and the rich should be cautious because they may not perceive their need.
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This sermon discusses wisdom and the teaching on wisdom in James 1:5-8
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In James 1:2-4 he gives us wise instruction on facing adversity in our lives as believers. James tells us to be prepared because tough times are coming, have the right perspective about adversity, and gives us a call to action in being productive in our suffering.
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Our Identity is the starting point for our journey into a life as a follower of Jesus. Like James we all start as unbelievers, but our past does not determine our future, our relationship with our Savior does.
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Effective Christian Community has evidence, experience, and energy which draws people to Jesus.
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On the day of His resurrection Jesus arose and pursued His scattered and scared followers through providing evidence and experience.
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Jesus chose to suffer abandonment and substitute himself to restore those who abandoned Him.
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Jesus came to Jerusalem knowing that he was going to die as we saw before. However, he came humbly in order to perfectly fulfill the scriptures in which He was well aware of. He rode on that donkey into the city for me and for all of you to give us ultimate victory over sin […]
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As Christians we have Great Hope, Great Purpose, and a Great Promise of victory!
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There are two forms of arrogance; Self Sufficiency and Entitlement. The arrogance of self sufficiency says I will live how I want to, I don’t need to obey God. The arrogance of entitlement says I will earn my position and deserve prosperity for my work. Which form of arrogance do you struggle with?
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Our Identity is based on our relationship with God. He created and intended humanity to be His treasured possession, and is calling us back to who we were meant to be. Who will you be?
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Intimate relationships involve investment. In Malachi God called His people back to intimate relationship with Him, which involved valuing Him, and joining in their part of ministry in their land and to the world.
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The overall message in this text is transformation, Jesus was coming, and has come for the purpose of transforming the hearts of His people so we could have intimate relationship with Him and join His mission of bringing others along with us. Transformation involves Power, Posture, Process, and Purpose.
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3 Cs on Being faithful from Malachi 2:10-17; Community, Commitments, and Compliance. Community (faithfulness to the church family) v 10, Commitments (who we marry/Allie ourselves to, how we live out our marriages) v's11-16, and Compliance (obedience to Gods instructions) v 17.
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Christian the war against hypocrisy is won through admitting the sin in your life, and dealing with it. Then you can be the witness God intends you to be.
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Like all relationships our relationship with our heavenly Father requires the work of intimacy. We need to see this work as part of the blessing of our communion with God.
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This sermon explains the context of Malachi as well as challenges us to not despise the blessing God has for us but take hold of it. First we need to recognize what the blessing is, value it, fight for it, and never give or persevere in living out that blessing.
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This sermon explains discipleship as actively being the blessing of God, and teaching others to be the blessing to the world as well.
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At the heart of the Christian faith is deep affection for our savior which then results in actions of love. Relational intimacy is built intentionally, through a series of moments that vary in depth, where we gain knowledge as well as interact emotionally, and these moments work together to stir affection which drives us to […]
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This sermon discusses the characteristics of the church, while exploring the text of Acts 2. An important note in the Christian faith is that our relationship with God is both communal and personal, neither can be divorced from the other, we are saved by God and valued by Him as an individual, and intended by […]
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A life saving encounter with God results in a life of worship that can not be contained in a worship service, or private times with God, but spills out in every area of our lives.
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Jesus incarnation involved humble beginnings and mess, as well as a call to unworthy people who responded in faith.
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This sermon discusses the return of Christ and the new creation. This is a summary of the book of Revelation. The two themes that are present in this book and much of the epistle literature of the new testament are a call to persevere, as well as look forward to the return of our King […]
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The resurrection changes how we view Jesus as His followers.
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In the narrative of the Bible we see the break in relationships from the beginning in Genesis 3. There is enmity between humanity and Satan, that is there is a spiritual war going on here thus also including the heavenly host and the fallen angels. We also see that their is strife between humanity […]
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The event of Jesus suffering in the garden, is significant as it reveals the real burden and suffering Jesus encountered as a divine human. We often just think of Jesus as God, it's easy to discount the level of pain and anguish He encountered on our behalf. This anguish did not begin when being beaten […]
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This event in Jesus life is significant because this event institutes one of the ordinances of the church, reveals the nearing arrival of the new covenant, and explains the inability of any to remain faithful in their own strength. So though they were entering an extremely dark time, ultimately this darkness would accomplish […]
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The event of Jesus triumphal entry is important because it reveals Jesus kingship and fulfills prophecy. Jesus was worshiped during the triumphal entry because people were proclaiming the sign He did in raising Lazarus from the dead and it seems because of the reputation of His ministry. It also reveals Jesus is the […]
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Jesus Anointing was important because it both pointed to His death and revealed His kingship. Mary gave probably her most prized possession for the purpose of anointing her savior.
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This sermon studies Matthew 17:1-13 which is the narrative of the Jesus taking three of His disciples on the mountain to reveal His glory as the true tabernacle in which the full glory of the Father was pleased to dwell. Here is the link to the video on Leviticus explaining the Tabernacle. https://youtu.be/WmvyrLXoQio
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The disciples were blessed not merely to be the church, to be God's chosen people, but to do war against the forces of Hell. How do we do war? What is spiritual warfare? We battle Satan and his minions by proclaiming the truth of who Jesus is, and stealing souls from his grasp through this […]
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In this sermon Eric summarizes the sermon on the mount this way: "We are in need of a Savior, We share that need with others, Our sin is proof of that need, God calls us to call to him for meeting that need, Jesus is the one who supplies for that need, and under no […]
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This sermon discusses how Jesus' temptation in the dessert reveals Him as the faithful Son of God, and gives us examples of how to be faithful in temptation with the same tools Jesus used, the Word of God, and the Holy Spirit.
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The event of Jesus baptism was important because this was the inauguration of Jesus ministry. In this text God personally declared the deity of Christ and used scripture from the law, psalms, and prophets as evidence. Just as Jesus would later say in the sermon of the mount he did not come to destroy the […]
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In the text here in the opening to Matthew's gospel, the author makes a point of connecting Jesus to what we know as the Old Testament. Matthew builds the foundation for this book on Jesus being the promised Messiah fulfilling God's covenants. Matthew also makes a point of showing us the controversy […]
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The basis to understanding the Life of Christ is the foundation of who Jesus Christ is. As we see in John 1:1-18 Jesus life does not begin with His physical miraculous birth by a virgin in humble settings. Jesus Christ is the incarnation, physical manifestation of the second person of the trinity, who […]
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This sermon studies the book of 2 John and focuses on the tension of truth and love, with a warning against false teaching.
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We can live with confidence because of the truth of the gospel. We know He makes us new, we have a new identity, and we know Jesus is who He said He is and what He has given us, new life. This new life is not just eternal life later but substantially, observably different life […]
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This sermon discusses our ability to pray in confidence because of our knowledge we are children of God, as well as instructions to intercede in prayer for our fellow believers.
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John wrote this letter with a pastoral heart to a church to give them assurance of their faith, and to protect them from false teachers. These false teachers were using the Lords name in vain, thus doing no benefit to themselves and leading others astray. In saying they were using the Lords name in […]
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This sermon discusses love focusing on the holistic action of love, the completeness of love lived out, for God and humanity under the guidance of God's commands.
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This sermon discusses 1 John 4:7-21, which is John's exposition on love, the overall message in this text is to be a Christian is to be made new, characterized by an active love that permeates every aspect of our lives.
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This sermon is focused on Christ like love in action combating false teaching.
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This sermon discusses God's command to love and the example of Christ in who and how to love. It also explains that the rejection of relationship to God results in hate, murder, and indifference, the only answer to the broken relationships of this world is the love of Christ lived out by those who follow […]
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This sermon discusses our New Identity based on our communion with Christ empowered by the Holy Spirit, as a result of the Fathers love for us.
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This sermon discusses the spiritual battle we find ourselves in and focuses on the opposition to Christianity. Who they are, where they are, and how to engage them.
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This sermon focuses on the life transformed by a relationship with Jesus.
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This sermon discusses what a changed life in relationship with God looks like.
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This sermon focuses on the evidence of Jesus life both fully human and fully divine, then the purpose of the church.
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