Sermons About Acceptance
Adoption: God's Greatest Gift
Adoption: God’s Greatest Gift Reconnect – October 11, 2009 Text: Ephesians 1:3-6, Galatians 4:3-7, Romans 18:14-17, John 1:10-13 Key Thought: Adoption is God’s greatest gift – but to choose it we must see the whole picture: that it is beautiful and hard at the same time. How we praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we belong to Christ. Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave him great pleasure. So we praise God for the wonderful kindness he has poured out on us because we belong to his dearly loved Son. Ephesians 1:3-6, NLT
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Acceptance
Acceptance. Whether you’re a teenager in Jr. High or moving into a new neighborhood, you want acceptance. Do you ever feel distant from God? Does the shame and guilt of sin ever make you feel this distance? As if God doesn’t accept you any longer? What do we do as Christians when we sin? In the apostle John’s first letter, he told his hearers that they could know and experience God’s love and acceptance as those who were in the “fellowship” of the Father and Son and with one another. We can know and experience the love and acceptance of God in our lives.
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The Performance Trap - Parent Trap #3
Parents are the most influential people in a child’s life. Good parents always want what is best for their children. They want good things for their kids: to be happy, productive and moral. But good things out of place can become dangerous. Well meaning parents regularly step into traps that poison a child’s faith in the name of something good. Don’t fall into the "Parent Trap." By looking at major Bible themes, Lead Pastor Jeff Lawrence helps parents avoid the traps that damage a child’s faith. [Creative collaboration for this series with Clear Creek Community Church, League City, TX, USA)
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Put Down Your Baggage
who we are and how we respond to life today. We often compensate for this by performance or pretense, but the reality is that there is no need to either perform or pretend. What is needed is to accept ourselves as God accepts us and to turn for him for guidance and purpose. He made us who we are and he did it for a reason. Key Verses: Lk 18:10; Heb 9:27; Ps 139:13ff; Ro 5:6-8; Ro 12:3ff; Isa 45:9-10; John 5:17-19; Php 3:4-21
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Accomplishing Little Without Christ
Everyone experiences struggle in their life. Without Christ, life's challenges cannot be overcome and little can be accomplished.
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You Can't God Can
The fifth in a six-part series on discovering what God is doing in our lives. When we realize that our experiences have helped shape the canvas of our world, then we realize that God truly is saying “I can work with that”. The road of discovery allows us to see the Call of God and the cause of Christ.
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