Sermons About Abide
Even Jesus Abides - Part 3
The Gospel of John - Discover Jesus is indeed God and worth giving everything up to know.
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Living Without Fear
Generally, when we think of fear, it is associated with bumps in the night or what is lurking in the dark, or at the least, the fear of the unknown. As a kid, I went through the horror movie phase where that was all I wanted to watch. My horror movie obsession culminated in a 16th birthday party sleepover where we watched Friday the 13th movies parts1-5 straight through. However, fear is much more of an ever-present reality than the movies or even our consciousness wants to recognize. Fear rarely has to do with machete wielding, hockey masked villains or striped sweater wearing bad guys that visit you in your nightmares. But one the reasons folks watch suspenseful or scary movies is to prove to themselves that they are not scared. To many, admitting fear is admitting weakness, and very few people have enough honesty to admit that they live with a certain amount of fear. But here is a little social secret. Ironically, many of the people who make a point to demonstrate that they never fear anything are actually the people that are most scared. Generally, the most blustery of people that I know are just people that are incredibly fearful. - They fear that people will think they are not smart so they are constantly trying to show how smart they are. - They fear that people will not respect them so they demand respect constantly and take offense at the first hint of disrespect (whether real or imaginary). - They fear that they will be rejected so they act like they don't care if people accept them or not. - They fear that they won't be loved so they act like it doesn't matter if people love them or not which makes loving someone like this pretty hard. It's a pretty lonely existence to live in fear. So, folks cover up all that fear with over-confidence or critique of others or a prideful spirit. These are people constantly telling others what they have done or constantly giving you a social or even religious resume. All the while, they would never admit that they are just plain scared or as we said in Johnston County, "scart." Here is another social secret. To some extent or another, I have just described all of you. Everyone has a built protection device to keep their fears at bay. But what we are going to see this week at Sovereign King in I John is a proclamation that God is so powerful, He can overcome your fears. He can part the Red Sea, raise the dead, and yes, overcome your fears.
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Even Jesus Abides - Part 2
The Gospel of John - Discover Jesus is indeed God and worth giving everything up to know.
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Abide in Me
Abide in Him is the topic of today's sermon. The key passage is John chaper 15 verses 1-8. By abiding in Christ our lives will show forth fruit
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Even Jesus Abides - Part 1
The Gospel of John - Discover Jesus is indeed God and worth giving everything up to know.
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Meno (abide): John 15.1-11
As this year ends and next week a new one begins there is a word that is so crucial to this journey that we must all know and embrace. This week we will look at this word and be encouraged to continue to give presence.
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Stories of the City #1 - The Vine
Jesus taught with stories to communicate truth, to engage the head and heart. The sermon series, Stories of the City, describes how five of His stories define and shape the vision and mission of The Downtown Church in Bellevue, Washington. Stories of the City ...The Vine calls us to be a people who Abide in the Vine daily, to know God deeply through Jesus. Text: John 15:1-11
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Abiding Along the Way
Like our spiritual father Abraham we are called to follow God by faith as sojourners in this day and age and look forward to heaven and the jaw-dropping inheritance that He has promised to us. If our true home is in heaven and not here, how do we create community in a place where we don’t belong? Jesus taught us that while we are in the place that He has called us to now we should not try to hop from place to place in search of something better but instead to remain there and invest in the people around us by sacrificially loving them and sharing the truth of the Gospel with them so that they could receive new spiritual life in Christ.
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OBaD: Abiding Prayer
Continuing our series On Being A Disciple, Tim Evans, LifeGroup Pastor at The Table, examines Jesus promise to answer our prayers IF we abide in Him and His words abide in us.
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