Sermons About Care
God's Love for the World
The Apostle John teaches us that God's basic disposition toward the world is love, a love demonstrated perfectly in the giving over of Jesus Christ. It is this love for the world that calls us to have the same concern for those without God.
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Making Known His Love
Scripture is full of commands to love one another; in fact, all of the law can be summed up in the word love. We are to love one another, and even to love our enemies. God intends for our love not to be merely abstract or sentimental, but real. Three of the images that God uses to describe the church capture aspects of how we are to love one another. The church is God's family, meaning that we have a unity in the gospel that overcomes all of our differences. The church is the body of Christ, meaning that we all have different functions, some of which may be more prominent than others, but all of us are needed, and we all need one another. The church is the temple of God, meaning that we exist for a far greater purpose than ourselves. We must take care of one another; this is commanded, and it provides a witness to the world, but most importantly, we do this because we love one another and we belong to one another.
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Why Worry?
Will I trust my heavenly Father to take care of me? OR will I take matters into my own hands? Balancing my responsibility to work hard, give generously, save regularly, and spend wisely with an absolute confidence that God is my provider is a difficult balance for all of us to maintain. It is so easy to begin to believe that we have to look after ourselves, and to become consumed with "having enough." Jesus challenges us to put our trust in Him alone and to give up the useless habit of worry…easy to say ... hard to live out! Key Passage: Matthew 6:19-34
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Eye Contact With God
Eye Contact With God (SERIES: Over the Rivers and Through The Providence -- The Psalms: Songs We Sing Along the Way) Psalm 121
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The Father Knows
In a culture in which is so easy to lose your soul, to throw it away, what Jesus gives us in the Lord's prayer is not only a way to pray but a way to find our souls, to find life and to live it. Now, before Jesus teaches us this prayer it seems there is at least one thing he wants us to get straight first. Before we pray we have to understand the heartbeat of prayer is the Fatherhood of God.
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Do You Know What Your Talking About?
In the last week of "Magnetic", we ask the question, "Do You Know What You're Talking About?" In other words, can you articulate your faith? The Gospel? The Gospel is best heard through our own stories most of the time...because even when the it's our story...it's really HIS story.
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Do They Trust Your Word?
In the ninth week of "Magnetic", we ask the question, "Do They Trust Your Word?" In other words, do people believe you when you speak? Do you have the credibility to speak truth in love to those God is drawing to Himself?
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Do They Know You Care about Them?
In the eighth week of "Magnetic", we ask the question, "Will People Know You Care about Them?" In other words, do people sense that we see them as more than simply props or scenery in our own personal narrative? The answer to that question might indicate whether you'll be effective or not in reaching out to those far from God.
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