Harambee Church Sermons
Total Sermons: 91
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Fellowship of Joy: A Study in Philippians
I am excited to begin this short letter of Paul to the Philippian (Macedonian) church. This church is exemplary of the reality of the church of Jesus Christ. It is a “Beautiful Mess!” This is a church that Paul describes in 2 Corinthians 8:1-5 as an incredibly giving church, who desired to always “Participate in the gospel” (Philippians 1:5), yet they struggled with unity and humility (see Philippians 2:1-4; 4:1-3). There is no “Perfect” church.
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What does it all mean?
What is the Church? Why does the Church exist? What is the Church supposed to do? The Church is the Body of Christ nurturing the community within by the transforming power of the Gospel of Christ and sharing that work with those that are called outside the buildings walls.
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The Glory of God in the Gospel of God, Reading the Cultural Texts Around Us
How does the gospel best move into a culture? Is it through power and influence, or is it through an informed band of believers living out their life on every level of human culture? How can we be involved with culture and engage it intelligently, without falling into the mechanisms and world systems that ultimately destroy it? How does the gospel story intersect the human one? Only by reading the culture, can we answer that question.
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The Glory of God in the Gospel of God, How Has the Culture Shaped the Gospel?
We are called to be ambassadors of the Gospel of Christ to the culture by using the culture to illustrate it as Paul did to the Gentiles but we should not let the culture shape God's Gospel or our theology. The worldviews and philosophies within a culture often shape us without us knowing it. God gives Adam and Eve a clear story, yet they chose to believe in another “Has God said…?” (Genesis 3:1). It is this restructuring toward our own desire to be god that shapes the gospel we preach.
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How Does the Gospel Lead Us?
We are blessed to have Jeff Vanderstelt return and speak again to our congregation on how we are shaped by the Holy Spirit through the Gospel to be missional to our communities in our everyday lives, rhythms.
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How Does the Gospel Shape Us?
We are blessed to have Jeff Vanderstelt speak to our congregation on how the Gospel, through the Holy Spirit, shapes us through our submission to Christ.
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The Glory of God in the Gospel of God, What is the Gospel?
What the Gospel is not: 1.The Gospel is Not Therapy 2.The Gospel is Not Law/Moralism 3.The Gospel is Not “Self Discovery” 4.The Gospel is Not “Enlightenment” 5.The Gospel is Not Social Restructuring/Nationalism The Gospel is God’s “Good News” of His in-breaking into human culture in order to justify and save His people (Through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ), and establish His kingdom/Lordship (Through the establishment of His Church) to the glory of His name.
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The Glory of God in the calling of Motherhood
Mother's Day is a special day in our culture where we honor mother's of the past, present and future, and the impact they have had in our lives. We live in a culture where mothers are not valued in the way God intends them to be valued. We will see that the Scriptures have much to say about the significance that mothers have in the redemptive story of God.
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Who Is the Holy Spirit, and Why Does It Matter?
The Holy Spirit may be the most misunderstood in all of scripture! Is He an energy force? Is He a manifestation of power much like Kali is a manifestation of Shiva in Hinduism? Is the Holy Spirit God, and what does He do? God’s mysteries are amazing, and I think a reminder of His infinite being and our finite minds.
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Genesis: 25 The Beginning of Hope in the Promises of God: A Life of Abraham
Why does God chose whom he choses? In this passage we see three incidents where God seems to choose one group/person over another. The answer may be as simple as the gospel is more about God and His glory than it is for our own glory. God blessed Isaac, because He had chose this line of Abraham to be the line that would one day produce the Messiah. God continually appears as the sovereign one here, which leads us back to the question why again? Romans 9 attempts to answer this question, but I would also say that the story we have unfolded in these past 12 chapters also helps us understand, why.
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