This sermon will focus on two key Pauline texts. In 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 Paul gives us some general instructions in demolishing strongholds by using God's means. In Ephesians 2 he identifies 3 strongholds by name, the world, the flesh and the devil.
This sermon will focus on two key Pauline texts. In 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 Paul gives us some general instructions in demolishing strongholds by using God's means. In Ephesians 2 he identifies 3 strongholds by name, the world, the flesh and the devil.
Staying Connected with God's Principles: Overcoming FEAR is the new edition (2011) in the series of PowerPoint Presentation on Overcoming Fear. Visit www.christiandrive.wordpress.com for full details. We need to understand the basic principles Jesus used.
04/24/16 Sermon
Pastor Seth Gatchell
Pacific Church of Irvine
www.pacificchurch.com
5th message in a series entitled, "Stories to be Shaped By" based on the parables of Jesus Christ
Peter make clear that we are to live a godly life. The way we live demonstrates who and what we worship. We are to make every effort to grow and develop a godly lifestyle.
Hebrews 11:1-6. The Importance of faith.
I. FAITH IS VERY IMPORTANT - ABOVE ALL
II. FAITH IS AVAILABLE - TAKING
III. FAITH IS A PROTECTION - THE SHIELD OF FAITH
IV. FAITH IS POWERFUL - WITH WHICH YOU SHALL BE ABLE TO QUENCH
V. FAITH IS EXTENSIVE - ALL THE FIERY DARTS OF THE WICKED ONE
James 2:14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?
Moving Forward in Uncertain Times | A Sermon from Matthew 2:13-23Steve Thomason
The beginning of a New Year can often be a time of mixed emotions. This sermon looks at Matthew and Joseph and explores how the promises of God empower us to move into the uncertain future.
God had been fighting your Battles and He had been arranging things in your favor. He never stop giving and pouring you His blessings... It's a privilege to know how to get and keep His Favor?.
Matthew 10, Disciples, Apostles, wolves, Fear God, Boasting, ss, Jesus Launc...Valley Bible Fellowship
Matthew 10, Disciples, Apostles, wolves, Fear God, Boasting, Jesus Launches The 12, Disciples Apostles, Pre Church, Pre Gospel, Serpents Wolves, Fear God Alone,
Paul told Timothy that God did not give us a spirit of fear. Why are Christians so fearful. The Bible gives us ample passages to not fear persecutors, skeptics and especially do not fear death! When we have conquered these three fears, nothing can stop us!
Selflessness must be seen in our attitude and actions if we are to proclaim the testimony of the finished work of the cross. This is because a natural consequence of the truly surrendered spirit led life is selflessness.
Phil 2:3-5
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Staying Connected with God's Principles: Overcoming FEAR is the new edition (2011) in the series of PowerPoint Presentation on Overcoming Fear. Visit www.christiandrive.wordpress.com for full details. We need to understand the basic principles Jesus used.
04/24/16 Sermon
Pastor Seth Gatchell
Pacific Church of Irvine
www.pacificchurch.com
5th message in a series entitled, "Stories to be Shaped By" based on the parables of Jesus Christ
Peter make clear that we are to live a godly life. The way we live demonstrates who and what we worship. We are to make every effort to grow and develop a godly lifestyle.
Hebrews 11:1-6. The Importance of faith.
I. FAITH IS VERY IMPORTANT - ABOVE ALL
II. FAITH IS AVAILABLE - TAKING
III. FAITH IS A PROTECTION - THE SHIELD OF FAITH
IV. FAITH IS POWERFUL - WITH WHICH YOU SHALL BE ABLE TO QUENCH
V. FAITH IS EXTENSIVE - ALL THE FIERY DARTS OF THE WICKED ONE
James 2:14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?
Moving Forward in Uncertain Times | A Sermon from Matthew 2:13-23Steve Thomason
The beginning of a New Year can often be a time of mixed emotions. This sermon looks at Matthew and Joseph and explores how the promises of God empower us to move into the uncertain future.
God had been fighting your Battles and He had been arranging things in your favor. He never stop giving and pouring you His blessings... It's a privilege to know how to get and keep His Favor?.
Matthew 10, Disciples, Apostles, wolves, Fear God, Boasting, ss, Jesus Launc...Valley Bible Fellowship
Matthew 10, Disciples, Apostles, wolves, Fear God, Boasting, Jesus Launches The 12, Disciples Apostles, Pre Church, Pre Gospel, Serpents Wolves, Fear God Alone,
Paul told Timothy that God did not give us a spirit of fear. Why are Christians so fearful. The Bible gives us ample passages to not fear persecutors, skeptics and especially do not fear death! When we have conquered these three fears, nothing can stop us!
Selflessness must be seen in our attitude and actions if we are to proclaim the testimony of the finished work of the cross. This is because a natural consequence of the truly surrendered spirit led life is selflessness.
Phil 2:3-5
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Unconditional Love talk delivered by Shane and Andrea Fell at the Young Couples Fellowship at Elmbrook Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin. April 10, 2010.
A look into the Biblical passages that focus on "one another". This is a reflection tool to help you understand the context of your relationships as well as review God's call for us to like together.
The end or object of God's righteousness in a believer's life is not simply to be good but to live as Him, to love as He loves in the world. If Christian's cannot love each other how then can we say we love those opposed to Christ? What is this love God commands of us? How is it different from the world's love? How does loving the brethren confirm we are truly Christian?
For talk given by Pastor Brent Lokker on May 1, 2014 at Blazing Fire Church in Pleasanton, CA. A podcast of this talk will also be available. Check www.blazingfire.org
10 Tips for Christians looking to talk about homosexuality and how it relates to the Gospel. What does it take for our communities to be plausible places for people to give up sex to follow Jesus? How might we help all people find their identity in Christ, not their sexuality.
The Purpose of The Church #2 FellowshipRick Peterson
The Purpose of The Church #2 Fellowship
Jeffery Anselmi http://www.sermoncentral.com/sermon.asp?SermonID=60357&Sermon%20The%20Purpose%20of%20The%20Church-%20Fellowship%20by%20Jeffery%20Anselmi
The church is the mother of believers--the God-ordained school of virtue in which Christian disciples learn how to desire the good and to reject what is false. Romans 12:9ff outlines covenant life in the congregation.
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
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BILL Welcome As we focus our thoughts on what it means to show selfless love let’s read 1 Corinthians 1-8. It is the foundational passage for our series
Dawn reads Bill prays After we read the verse we’ll pray
Dawn Last week Shane & Andrea used 1 Corinthians and a number of other verses to speak to us about unconditional love Read / Briefly touch on all 4 points Today we are going to speak on Christ’s call for selfless love and cover how that specifically applies to a Godly marriage
Dawn Tonight we are going to contrast those expectations of selfishness with God’s desire for our lives and marriages First, we’ll consider why it’s so hard for many people to have an attitude of selflessness today Next, we’ll define a biblical understanding of selfless love Then, we’ll talk about our call to live that example and what it means Finally, we’ll apply selfless servanthood to marriage
BILL Discuss how society points to focus on the individual… prior to marriage, you may have decades of self focus. There could also be a fear that if you depend on each other, you will fall short. Perhaps talk about our cultures understanding of the role or self and defining selflessness in relationships
BILL It’s the “kid’s today” mentality for every generation to be critical of the next, but… Just about everyone in this room falls somewhere on the generational spectrum between Gen X and Millennial What we’ve been told is that our generation is exceedingly self-focused, even by the standards of our society We have little patience and short attention spans We want things now and we want them our way HR departments at many businesses now are offering specific training about how to handle our mindsets How did we get this way? Dr. Foster Cline and Jim Fay: 1990 book Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility [1 Many of us develop this mentality because we have what they term as “helicopter parents” that hover above and around us making sure everything works out by for us waking us up, doing our homework, harassing our teacher about poor grades, generally making sure we avoid the trials and lessons that are supposed to be part of the adolescent experience Example: One mom took her daughter’s entrance exams because she didn’t trust her daughter to do well enough to get into the mom’s preferred school This leads to a mentality that everything should work out in our best interests and if it looks like that’s not going to happen then we should quit or turn to someone that will bail us out. We have accepted and embraced this outlook In short, we become self-centered, self-focuses, and generally selfish And this is the attitude that we bring into our relationships and eventually marriage
Dawn Gary Thomas writes in Sacred Marriage that it takes most couples between 9-14 years to stop referring to “I” and “me” in marriage and start thinking in terms of “we” Unfortunately many marriages don’t last long enough to get to this point. According to the U.S. census bureau the average length of an American marriage is 8 years! As these statistics show, without Christ is almost impossible to sustain a selfless attitude towards marriage over time That’s why we need to look towards Christ’s example
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BILL Jesus’ response to the mother of James and John when she requests that her children be seated next to him in Heaven She was the Biblical example of the helicopter parent! Disciples could only see the benefit to themselves at this point from following Jesus Believed he was the Messiah, but also thought his kingdom would be established on Earth
Bill This passage takes place just days after Palm Sunday when Jesus is hailed by the public as the “Messiah” Jesus’ personal example to the disciples only hours before he was betrayed Serves every disciple, include Judas who would betray him
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Bill Add more detail / additional verses explaining what it means to “die to oneself” Dying to oneself and becoming a servant can take many forms – may be as simple as taking out the trash or picking up groceries for a neighbor May be setting aside personal time each day to pray / study scripture May be opening up to talk with your spouse showing vulnerability
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Dawn Each give an example of how we’ve served the other
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Dawn Many people pretend to love others – how to speak kindly, avoid hurting feelings, etc. We may even be skilled in pretending to feel moved with compassion when we hear of others’ needs… But God calls us to real and sincere love. This requires concentration and effort, helping others become better people No individual has the capacity to express love to a whole community, but the body of Christ does
Dawn Husbands are called to follow the example Christ sets for the Church Wives are to strive to be the holy Church
Dawn Husbands are called to follow the example Christ sets for the Church Wives are to strive to be the holy Church
BILL As Shane mentioned last week, Pete Briscoe recently preached series of messages on Ephesians One of his main points about this passage is the concept that one + one = one! We are to be joined together as one in marriage and Christ and the Church are joined together This is why Paul continues the analogy of the Christ and the Church when talking about marriage Although we are told “two become one” on our wedding day the reality is that this process usually takes much longer Remember, Gary Thomas said the process can take 9 to 14 years from “me” to “we” Oneness means that we are both fully committed and engaged in our marriage Oneness means that we think about what’s best for “us” even if it requires one to be selfless to the other Oneness means we are selfless even when we don’t “feel” like being selfless
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Dawn Greenup Story A couple we know who have been married for several years exhibits Selfless Love every day in a way that challenges Bill and I to think about love from Christ's point of view. This couple has a love for life and for each other and for Christ that is clearly evident when you first meet them... the wife is bubbly and joyful and the husband clearly loves his wife and focuses on putting Christ first in their decisions as a couple. They have 3 grown children and 6 grandchildren who they love spending time with. Over 20 years ago, they made the decision to have the wife's mother move into their home. She was suffering from early stages of MS and needed care and they could not bare to put her into a nursing home facility. There have been ups and downs over the years, but she remains in their home, under their care and watch after 20 years of her body slowly being overtaken by the disease. This story strikes us b/c we think about the normal stresses of a few decades of marriage - career changes, children growing into teenagers, financial pressures, etc and to handle all of this with a mother-in-law under your roof puts the need to lean on Christ to a whole new level! We hope that this story opens your eyes to the fact that Christ will give you strength and love to endure these types of decisions you may have to face in your marriage.
BILL & Dawn Bill will discuss the first 2 / Dawn the second 2 points Perhaps discuss how long it takes to build these habits in your marriage… 9-14 to think “us” vs “me”