Sermons About Disappointment
How To Love Difficult People
We are supposed to love other people who are not easy to love. As you know, we encounter many kinds in our day to day living. But, there are four kinds of people who make it especially difficult for us to love them--Difficult people, Demanding people, Disappointing people, and Destructive people. God commands us to love other people. How do you respond in love to each of these groups of people? Our Bible text gives us four descriptions of godly love. In so doing, it tells us how to treat each of the four difficult groups.
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Hope for the Hopeless
This message comes to answer the question, "What do we do with failures?" First, what do we do with the failures in our own lives? What do we do with our inability to see victory over certain sins in our lives, or those areas where we feel like we are being controlled rather then being in control? It also comes to address the question, What do we do with those people in our lives who seem to consistently let us down? What do we do with the people that we feel like giving up on? For most of us, one of the most common responses to failure is giving up, quitting. However, Jesus came to give hope to the hopeless. Our God is a God of hope, and gave us hope by sending his only son to earth to give his life on the cross for his people.
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Boundaries: The Myth of No-Limit Living
The Bible clearly teaches us that God has our ultimate, eternal interests at heart. It is a mistake to believe that God will give us everything we want in this life, if we are faithful enough.
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Loving the Lost
Jesus spotted Zacchaeus in the tree. I imagine this notorious thief was preparing for the worst—public humiliation by a prophet from God sent to point out his sin.
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Empty
Mary Magdalene the first at the empty tomb who earlier had Jesus cast 7 demons out of her. She became a devoted disciple of Jesus with a special kind of love. One resurrection morning she experienced a series of emotional ups and downs
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Risk of the Mission
Have you become accustomed to the brokenness in your life and the lives around you? Have you guarded your heart by keeping your distance? Have you protected yourself by having such meager expectations for God? Have you said things like, “If you don’t expect anything, you won’t be disappointed?†Can you see how hopeless and devastating it is to expect so little of such a large God. He is a big God. We need to come to Him with all our needs, especially big ones!
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Jonah - God's Love for a City - Part 3
Are we Jonah? Do we put conditions on God? Are we willing to do the hard thing even when we are disappointed with God?
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Days Weary and Light
Part 2 in a 5 part Christmas series: A Place to Start. In many ways, Christmas, like life, is what we choose to make it. The choices about who we trust (or not) determine the outcomes of it. The Christmas story is the message of Christianity: God loves us so much that He sent His Son into the world to save whoever chooses to trust in Christ, & thereby start over.
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