Greentree Community Church Sermons Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Jesus' disciples must learn to view affliction from a biblical perspective if it is to accomplish what God intends in our lives and the lives of our fellow believers.
2 Corinthians challenges our community of faith to learn, think, and act individually and collectively as followers of Jesus.
God sending angels to shepherds demonstrates a limitless grace that leads Jesus' disciples to comfort and peace in moments of despair and discouragement.
God illuminates the pathway to the manger so we can see and respond to the light of his salvation.
The Way of the Manger starts in Old Testament prophecies to be fulfilled that they should challenge our minds and hearts and the way we live our lives.
Godly generosity celebrates our new reality in Jesus & calls us to follow his example of active giving.
Maturity of faith and intimacy with God is not measured in spiritual gifts, heavenly knowledge or Christ-like generosity, but in unconditional love.
We have been united through the Holy Spirit to strengthen each other’s faith by using the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
If my chief aim is God’s glory, my thoughts and actions will demonstrate care for others over the exercise of my rights and freedoms.
Jesus' disciples must develop a biblical ethic if we hope to be a spiritually and emotionally mature community
We celebrate Mission Sunday at Greentree. Pastor Eric Van Zee's sermon share with us how the world may have stopped for a season but God’s love is always on the move.
Humble service built on the gospel of Jesus Christ causes a church to thrive and the culture to flourish.
The first steps in building unity in the church are acknowledging, confessing and repenting of our sins which create disunity among Jesus’ people.
The new reality we live in as believers in Jesus must replace our selfish, “me first” world view.
Church Planter Sean Boone shares with us why Jesus is still good news in these challenging times.
Before anyone can live a life of love, they must be confronted by love, embraced by love, and welcome love.
According to Jesus, being a good neighbor is infinitely more important than having bad ones.
Beyond hosting a meal, biblical hospitality is a response to God’s grace that motivates us to love and welcome strangers wherever we are.
The Bible teaches me to approach my neighbor relationships not by demanding my rights, but by putting my neighbor's care ahead of my own.
Chip Demetri, former Worship Arts Director, share with us the 5 things to know about shame.
It is only when we remember the steadfast love of the Lord to us that we can love others well.
True peace is offered and given by God through the grace of Jesus and must grow in our hearts as we share it with others.
For Jesus’ disciples, joy often is a result of seeing God’s faithfulness through difficult and challenging circumstances.
Learning to grieve over my sin and its ramifications is foundational to God's restorative work in my life.
Ecclesiastes hammers us with realities that break down our shallow view of life; yet he offers us hope that is satisfying even in the greatest of life’s uncertainties.
Though the justice and mercy of God sometimes appear irrelevant in this life, God's righteousness will have the last word.
Any search for wisdom in this life apart from a relationship with God ends in failure, futility and vexation.
The Preacher calls us to an honest reflection of life in a world broken by sin and death while helping us understand we can trust God in all things.
God sees all of us, and passionately pursues us across physical, racial and social barriers. We should do the same, if we are truly loving as God does.
Though we may not always see it or feel it, God is at work, God is good, and God can be trusted.
Advent for the Messiah meant sacrificing everything in order to give humanity the greatest gift ever.
Rejecting God’s Messiah may feel empowering but ultimately it neither fulfills the unbeliever, nor impedes God’s plan of salvation.
The coming of the Messiah is both royal and utterly common thereby giving hope and promise to everyone who believes.
Jesus' coming confronts our skeptical assumptions about God's lack of love and care for us.
As Jesus transforms the hearts and minds of his disciples, he gives them practical experience in following him.
Following Jesus brings spiritual stability to disciples who abide in a transforming relationship with him.
Becoming like Jesus entails following our teacher into the maelstrom of testing with the confidence of a beloved child of God the Father.
Jesus offers a distinct paradigm for discipleship which, when applied, creates a clear pathway for following him.
Jesus' life, death and resurrection...the Gospel... brings freedom. Believe in Christ that you may know that freedom!
Don't hold on to what makes you respectable if it gets in the way of receiving the grace you need.
The journey of discipleship is the long trek of following Jesus as he leads and transforms us.
The more we become like children before God, the more we will experience his goodness and love.
Before we can share God's grace with others, Jesus' disciples must embrace our need for it.
The habit of prayer is forged in the furnace of life where God's Spirit and grace confront our limitations.
Being in Christ and in community with one another creates the opportunity for a life of prayer.
Dr. Carl Ellis, Jr. share with us why it is important to lose our focus the on the disrupting grace and love of Christ.
The journey of discipleship includes a very real spiritual battle which can only be successfully fought with God's power and provision.
Jesus' disciples are in a very real spiritual battle, which can only be successfully fought in his power.
Parenting is not about what we want for our children or from our children but about what God in grace plans to do through us in our children.
A spiritually healthy community is one in which Jesus' disciples imitate our heavenly Father's love for us in our relationships with one another.
Jesus' disciples must understand our new life in Christ is replacing our old way of thinking by renewing our mind and creating new person.
How will we create a community of faith that reflects the unity and peace of the trinity?
Because Jesus has turned the world upside down in was we cannot imagine, our lives ought to reflect that reality in how we address the basic choice we make in our daily lives.
God believed the message of grace was important enough to share with the entire world. Do we believe the same?
Retelling the story of the shepherds shocking encounter with the angels as told by our adult choir and students.
This is an announcement of good news and great joy for everyone, everywhere, all the time!
In Psalm 34, David extols God as our refuge, and invites us to put our trust in Him in the midst of our times of trouble.
Knowing God's power in us and living for His glory sets us on the pathway of generous giving.
Our giving reflects the degree to which Jesus' love is transforming our lives from our control to his.
God the Father shares with every disciple of Jesus some portion of his limitless riches, power, love and knowledge. Why would he do such a thing?
Are we willing to become... by God’s grace...a blessing to others... even to the outsider?
My shortcomings and deliberate disobedience against God have forever killed my desire for him and have replaced it with unquenchable self-centered desires that leave me spiritually empty and an enemy of God.
God’s promise of a sure and certain future creates the opportunity for a steadfast hope today.
The past, present and future of God's love for those in Christ Jesus is profound and immoveable, leading Jesus' disciples to humility and worship.
By God's grace we are in Christ Jesus through faith. Who we are, is demonstrated by how we live.
What is the 10th Commandment? What does the Tenth Commandment prohibit? What does the Tenth Commandment commend? What to do about the Tenth?
Those who suffer from others acting out against them and those struggle to live within God's framework for sexual relationships can experience God's love, grace and restoration.
What does it mean to misuse the name of God?
Why does God regard this offense as so terrible?
To know Jesus Christ, to serve him in joyful obedience and to make him known by growing disciples, planting churches and renewing communities
Our mission is to know Jesus Christ, to serve him joyful obedience and to make him known by growing disciples, planting churches and renewing communities.
Our mission is to know Jesus Christ, to serve him in joyful obedience and to make him known by growing disciples, planting churches and renewing communities.
Godly wisdom and folly compete for our children’s hearts and minds. How we will influence the outcome?
To know Jesus Christ and serve him in joyful obedience and to make him known by growing disciples, planting churches and renewing communities.
Our mission is to know Jesus Christ, to serve him in joyful obedience and to make him known by growing disciples, planting churches and renewing communities.
To know Jesus Christ, to serve him in joyful obedience, and to make him known by, growing disciples, renewing communities and planting churches.
If we know Jesus Christ by faith and… We follow him out of love via the transforming power of the...
To know Jesus Christ, to serve Him in joyful obedience and to make Him known by growing disciples, planting churches and renewing communities. Sermon Focus: Obedience motivated by love leads to joy.
To know Jesus Christ and serve him in joyful obedience by growing disciples, planting churches and renewing communities.
To know Jesus Christ and serve him in joyful obedience by growing disciples, planting churches and renewing communities.
The meticulous planning and execution of God’s redemption through Jesus gives disciples great comfort and confidence in the face of life’s uncertainties.
Jesus challenges everyone he encounters to see themselves through the lens of their relationship with him.
Jesus claimed his mission was to “seek and save the lost.” Does this statement have any credibility?
Jesus is resolved to teach his disciples that habitual prayer is essential because we are weak and God is just.
Jesus is resolved to teach us what we truly believe leads to how we live both of which, have temporal and eternal consequences.
Jesus is resolved to show us the character of his Father and our very real need for his grace.
Man-centered, works based religion is not closely related to faith in Christ Jesus, it is the polar opposite.
Appearances can be deceiving… but not to Jesus. Would it surprise you to learn that Jesus had very little patience for people who thought they were deeply religious but in reality had no room for God in their hearts?
Many people think salvation is based on how hard I work doing good things for God. If I preform enough good works God will owe me heaven. Would it surprise you to know the opposite is true? It is only complete dependence on God that saves anyone
How do you respond knowing Jesus has loved you with a steadfast, unwavering and immovable love that you didn't deserve
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The Unapologetic, Ever-Expanding, Welcoming Heart of God In and Through the People of Greentree Community Church... Yes?
People of No Particular Importance - 20:28 Sunday Take a peek at our day of service: http://www.vimeo.com/25153545