Sermons About Confidence
A Growing Confidence (Ps 57)
When the problems of the world make life more difficult, we find our great confidence in God.
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How to Pray with Confidence
Did you ever wonder if your prayers are getting through to God? Did you ever feel like your faith level is a little low when petitioning the Lord? Would you like to know for sure that your prayers are making a difference? That’s what we’ll be looking at in this message entitled “How to Pray with Confidence”
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God at Work
God invites us to trust Him to work in our lives. We should not expect to arrive instantaneously at the level of the Apostle Paul who could have full confidence that God was at work in every circumstance – even prison and shipwreck. We start by trusting God in our day-to-day decisions and expecting Him to give wisdom and discernment. Then, bit by bit we grow as we see God working. Let’s not be like my passenger of years ago who insisted that we change direction because he thought he knew how to get to the airport better than I did. Let’s trust God even when the way seems confusing and stormy. If the Apostle Paul were here today, he would tell us “I am confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Jesus Christ.”
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Missteps on the Road to 1 Corinthians 9:22
This message was delivered at Boise Bible College's Spring Preaching Conference on May 13, 2009. It is an encouragement to the students there to be confident in the unique person God has made them to be.
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1 John 3--Assurance through Love and Obedience
Even after establishing three ways a Christian can KNOW with Assurance that they are truly a child of God, John reiterates himself again to drive his point home. He raises the issue of keeping God's commandments and showing Christ-like love for one another as two JEY ways to know that a Christian is truly saved. And even if a believer still feels condemned in their heart or conscious, they can still approach God in prayer with confidence; because God already knows their heart and knows all things.
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Locking up Your Freedom - Galatians #9
What makes the Christian faith like no other? The good news of God’s grace is the bold claim that we are accepted by God not because we “follow the rules” or “fit the mold” but because Jesus gave his own life to rescue us. But many of us are still trying to earn God’s love with our performance rather than living in the freedom that Jesus has provided for us. In Galatians, Paul warns against the danger of religious systems that value people on grounds of accomplishment or status or cultural agreement. These things lock away our freedom in the futility of legalism, moral superiority and cultural arrogance. Focusing on either the racial/ethnic/cultural superiority or the moral successes of good works denies the gospel and divides Jesus’ followers. Join us as we explore how God offers us true freedom in Jesus and how the freedom of Christ transforms our hearts, our minds and lives.
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