Christ Covenant Community Church (EPC) Sermons
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Total Sermons: 41
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Hope in the Midst of Suffering
Job finds realistic hope in the midst of his suffering by pursuing God's presence and in his startling glimpse of the resurrection: "You will long for the creature Your hands have made."
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The Hurt In Our Midst: Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is a pervasive problem in our society and churches. One out of four women will experience abuse from an intimate partner in the course of their life time. The heart-changing power of the Gospel can break this cycle. Women finding strength to step out of the cycle. Men finding freedom from the expression of anger. See how Paul was set free from legalistic heart that led him to persecute the church as a model for real freedom ni life.
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How To Hurt Your Friends
In the midst of his suffering, Job has 4 friends who travel to be with him. For seven days they sit together in silent sympathy. Job speaks from his pain, and his friends begin to speak. That is when they become "miserable comforters." Learn how not to further hurt people in pain.
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The War On Love
"Remove the benefits of his love for God, and Job will turn from God," says Job's cynical accuser. Suffering follows and puts this accusation to the test. While we cannot settle for simplistic answers to the question of why bad things happen to good people, we can find courage knowing that "Love Wins."
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The Big Question
In the epic story of Job, we face the oldest question of humanity: Why do even the righteous suffer in this world?
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Grace: Why We No Longer Fear A Fearsome God
What does the younger brother expect o find when he returns home to his Father? An angry Dad, and rightly so. But something has changed. The expected anger has been transformed into love and acceptance. The anger of God, while qualitatively different than human anger is both real and important, for it undergirds the reality of justice. At the cross though, Jesus met the demands of holy justice, paid the price for human sin, and the deserved anger of God is transformed into love and acceptance. God is fearsome, but not feared, for the perfect love of the cross casts out all fear and punishment.
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We Have Met The Elder Brother, And He Is Us!
Each son in the Parable of the Two Sons in Luke 15,shows us a different way to be alienated God: self-indulgence or self-righteousness. Understanding the self-righteousness of the Elder Brother helps us recognize the prevelance of those same attitudes in the church. Research compiled in the book "unChristian: What a New Generation Thinks About the Church and Why It Matters" further clarify the problem. The Father's love pursues Elder Brothers - even those in the church - and invites them into the Feast of Gospel Love.
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Grace and Obedience
Everyone is serving something, but the Gospel is the invitation to trust and obey One who is loving and trustworthy. Obedience flows from whatever our heart has placed it's trust in.
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The Tale of Three Sons
"There was a man with two sons. . ." begins Jesus as he tells this well-known and loved parable to a crowd of sinners and Pharisees. He then shows two sons who in their own way each only want their father for what he can give them. Jesus, Himself a Son, is our model of hope.
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God's Promises: Pregnant with Reality
God makes wonderful and certain promises to His people, but these promises are pregnant with time, hardship and contradiction. They are meant to build Gospel-based trust into our hearts rather than serve as "holy credit cards" that get us what we want when we want it. God's promises don't keep us from hard times, they get us through hard times.
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