Sermons About Cross
Keeping Perspective in Suffering (Romans 5:3-5)
As Christians we are to rejoice in our trials and sufferings because 1) they are part of God's agenda for us, 2) God will use them to forge a Christian hope in us, and 3) God will use them to forge a certain hope in us. Though we are tempted to disorientation and despair during times of suffering and trial, we can surely trust in God's promises and love to sustain us through trials, and even to bring a Godly rejoicing and hope in the midst of them.
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Judge Not
This week, Pastor Kevin looked at not only the command we have not to condemn others, but even deeper, the question of why we judge others!
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Why We Rejoice (Romans 5:2)
Joy should characterize Christians. It should be based on something deeper than temporal circumstances; it should be based on the person and work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
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Something About George
We all miss Our Beloved Pastor George, each of us in our own way. Steve brings a unique message, dealing with a few of his qualities and how we each have, or can have those same qualities in our own life. Remember, you must move on and live your life in God's will.
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The Hope of the Resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:58)
Our view of Christ's work and our work should reflect 1 Corinthians 15. The emphasis is on Christ's work: 1) Christ's resurrection motivates and empowers our work; 2) Christ's resurrection secures our resurrection; and 3) Christ's resurrection fuels hope for this life. Because of Christ's work, we can be steadfast, immovable, and abounding in the work the Lord has for us.
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Let Us Cease to Rule the World
This week we looked at the command of Jesus to not be anxious or worry.
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Take Up Your Cross
Matthew 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
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The Transfiguration
The Transfiguration of Jesus is an incredibly important event in the history of Jesus. In the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, the transfiguration is the authoritative answer to the question, “Who is this man? Who is this that commands the wind and waves and they obey Him? Who is this that even forgives sins?” These are the kinds of questions asked in the first three Gospels and are answered at the transfiguration. After the transfiguration, the hinge of the first three Gospels is swung and Jesus begins His move towards Jerusalem to eventually face betrayal, false trials, and His death as a criminal on a Roman cross. It is the climax of the first portion of the Gospels.
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Gods Greatest Work
In church we hear stories of great miracles and are often even taught that we should expect them. Then, we are disillusioned when they fail to appear. Why the great disconnect between what we expect and what really happens? Could it be that we have not dared to acknowledge the truth? That is, that God more often works through suffering than through triumph. Key Verses: Daniel 3, Mark 14:32-42, Mark 15:22-39, 2Cor 12:7-10, 2Cor 4:7-12, 1Peter 4:12-19
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God Is Faithful! The Drought Is Over!
We had a time of sharing this week. It's always great to hear what God is doing in our midst and in our community.
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Our Great Need
This week we looked at how Jesus teaches us to pray for God's grace, His guidance, and the transforming power of the gospel.
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The Gift of Community (1 John 1:1-7)
Christian community is built around our shared experience of the gospel. Community always begins with God, and God gives us community as a means of transforming our lives more and more into the image of his son. However, community is not merely a tool for growth, but also a gift from God for our joy as well as for our good.
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Our Advocate, Our Access
To pray in Jesus'name is to approach God in the confidence that the justifying work of the Cross makes possible.
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In the Presence of God
Transfiguration Jesus produces the Glory of God Prophecy fulfilled Life is a journey to the Cross
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The Cross
David Ravenhill speaks on understanding the cross and that man was created for the will of God, the purpose of God and the pleasure of God.
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Ressurection Power
Our salvation, our victory, our healing, our prosperity, our everything is in that crucifixion and resurrection. Because in that, the devil was defeated, Jesus triumphed over him, and we triumphed over him with Jesus. There’s enough power in the crucifixion to raise up any man. All can be saved through this power. Also, anything of God in our lives, any area of faith, can be resurrected through the power of God. There’s enough power in the crucifixion to remove anything that would keep us from God. There’s enough power in the resurrection to take us up and out of our situations and circumstances and put us over them all.
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New: The Hope of Something Better
The promise of "a new you" is not an empty promise, but according to Paul in Romans 6, it is a promise fulfilled through the radical intervention of death and resurrection.
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Respond
We all have a choice in life how we respond to God. In this Easter message we look at the story of the Last Supper, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Cross. We see how Judas, the disciples, and the thieves on the cross responded to Jesus. How will you respond? Will you choose faith and obedience, or will you choose to live life rejecting Christ?
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Do Not Be Afraid - He is Risen!
This Easter morning, both visually and in the message, our attention will be drawn to the cross that stands so prominently in our sanctuary. As a symbol, the cross is capable of evoking great passion, but it is the events behind the symbol that are capable of producing not only passion, but great change for good in each of our lives. As the Scriptures clearly teach, something happened in the crucifixion and resurrection, not only to Jesus, but to us as well. The practical value of the mystery of our union with Christ in His death and resurrection is hard to see for many. May God give us the grace today to see that in our union with Him, crucified and risen, our deepest needs and greatest hopes find their fulfillment.
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Easter - West County Campus: Being Changed By The Resurrection (Mark 16:1-7)
If you think believing in the physical resurrection of Jesus is hard, you’re not alone. It was hard for the disciples too. In this sermon we will look at what the reality of the resurrection offers for our life today.
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Easter 2008 He is Risen
Are you living like the tomb is empty? When we meet the risen lord it changes our life. The disciples went from fear to power, and from weakness to strength. Is your life different? Are you like the criminal who mocked jesus or the criminal who asked him to remember him?
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Why?
Jesus died in order to reconnect all of us back to God, so that we could be what we were always meant to be.
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The Cross: Of First Importance
Week 5 in The Cross series. Preached by Lead Pastor Paul Vroom on Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008 at Missio Dei Church in Mokena, Illinois (www.mdchurch.us). Key Scripture from 1 Corinthians 15:1 - 7.
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Good Friday 2008
This sermon was delivered on Good Friday 2008 and looks at what happened on the cross. We were reconciled to the Father, Justified of our sins, and redeemed by His blood.
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Mature or Not
There is a hidden wisdom of the cross that Paul communiactes to the church. It is the truth that to gain your life you must lose it.
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Given Over, Taken Out, Lifted Up
Hear the message of the cross of our Lord, announcing the sufficiency of the spotless sacrifice whose atoning blood covers the sins of the elect. In this sermon, we emphasize the end of the "road to the cross", where we see Christ leaving a trial with a guilty sentence, despite his obvious innocence before multiple counsels. We examine the circumstances and purpose of the crucifixion of Jesus, as well as the unintentionally prophetic title above His head: "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews". An exposition of John 19:16-19.
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The Cross
Jesus is fully in charge of these Good Friday events from carrying His own cross to "it is finished". In John's account, the sky is not reported to be dark. The darkness John speaks of is a spiritual one and His answer to our darkness is Jesus Christ who IS Light, Who gave His life that we might be saved.
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Why The Thief Went To Heaven
This sermon reminds us of God's grace and mercy and that we are all saved by grace through faith and not of works.
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The Cross: A Second Response to Thievery
Week 4 in The Cross series. Preached by Lead Pastor Paul Vroom on March 16, 2008 at Missio Dei Church in Mokena, Illinois (www.mdchurch.us). Key Scripture from Acts 2:22-23.
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Sermon Good Friday - The Crucifixion of Christ
Sermon "Good Friday". The Crucifixion, Passion of Jesus Christ on The Cross at Calvary. The Atonement, Sacrificial Death of Christ for our Salvation. Scriptures used are: Hebrews 9:20-28, Hebrews 10:9-18, Matthew 27. Bloomsburg Community Church Sermons.
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The Right Side Of Jesus
At Calvary, there were three crosses... One man died on the "right side" of Jesus and one on the "wrong side" of Jesus. How does a person get on the "right side" of Jesus?
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Ordinary Radicals
Zach Bayer leads us to Matthew chapter 16 to look into the life of Christ and see what is truly means to take up our cross and follow Christ.
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The Community of the Spirit
The community of the Spirit is the community of the cross. Sin is not fatal or scandalous because restoration is possible, and the members take responsibility for self and one another. We then live by the Spirt not mocking God with self-indulgence or growing weary of self-righteousness. And our passion is not cross avoidance and impressing people but glorying in the wonders of the cross and our subsequent new cretaion.
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09-MAR-2008 The WAY of the Cross
Oft times we can struggle not to crave personal glory or worldly acclaim while serving ... yet as our Lord demonstrated when washing the apostles feet, we should serve because we can and not because of who will see. This is the way of the cross.
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The Cross: A Response to Thievery
Week 3 in The Cross series. Preached by Lead Pastor Paul Vroom on March 9, 2008 at Missio Dei Church in Mokena, Illinois (www.mdchurch.us). Key Scripture from Romans 11:22.
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2 Samuel 24 - Senseless Census
As we come to the final chapter in 2 Samuel we find some of our old nemeses of human strength and human success making us trust in ourselves. The author arranged these chapters so that right after the account of David's mighty men - Israel's strength, we find that David sinfully (even thought God incited him) counting Israel and Judah so that he might trust in the strength of his numbers. We must all remember that according to Hebrew thinking that whatever God permits is part of His plan. By allowing this census, God is viewed as having brought about the act. Let us, like David, not harden our hearts against the Spirit's convicting work. When we seek God's forgiveness from sin, we must not always expect the elimination of the consequences of that sin, nor should we think that forgiveness is without an atonement. David learns that even thought God's wrath is staid, it is not yet satisfied because David must build an alter a make sacrifice to the LORD for his people. It is only then that the famine ceases. You will find that it is only through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross that the mercy of God is available so that his wrath against you is staid and satisfied. Don't be a stranger to the covenants and promises of God by trusting your own strength ... Flee to Christ and trust Him today.
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Now for the Demonstration
Paul's message was not with persuassive words of wisdom but a demonstration of the power of the cross.
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The Throne of Forgiveness
True forgiveness will touch a life like no other principle, concept or action in our world.
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Mocked and Reviled
Mark recounts Jesus' crucifixion, but his focus is not on the physical brutality (though it was excruciating). Rather, he focuses on the substitution that Jesus makes for us, both in bearing our sin and in removing our shame.
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#2 - To Be a Sacrifice For Us
The Cross of Jesus Christ is the crucial event of history and of our faith. We are asking our selves, "What Did He Die For?" This study examines the atonement God made for us by the shedding of the blood of Christ.
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A Time for Every Matter
When it comes to the events and experiences of our existence, randomness does not rule. God does. He is the Sovereign over our seasons. The Teacher reminds us of this fact in Ecclesiastes 3, and the Cross reminds us that God's ordering is for the good of those who believe.
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The Way of Salvation: Part 3 (Romans 3:25-26)
Jesus is the sacrificial propitiation for our sins. Propitiation is the turning away of another's wrath. In Jesus's propitiating sacrifice, we see demonstrated our sin, God's just wrath against sin, our alienation from God, and the one perfect offering of sufficient worth to remove our guilt. Jesus demonstrates God's perfect justice in bearing the punishment for our sin, and he demonstrates God's perfect love in making a way for us to be reconciled to him in spite of our sin. How good of God!
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The Cross: Kill Your Sin
Week 2 in The Cross series. Preached by Pastor Eric Cook on March 2, 2008 at Missio Dei Church in Mokena, Illinois (www.mdchurch.us). Scripture from Colossians 3:1 - 10.
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The Cross Un-packed
In order to undertand what the foolishness of the cross means we have to understand the events and circumstances that led Jesus to the cross.
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The Hope of Perfection
This week we looked at the hard words of Jesus concerning how we are to love our enemies and avoid retaliation. The words of Jesus are convicting, but the promise of the Holy Spirit and its ongoing work in our life gives us a great reason to hope!
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