Sermons About Discipleship
Love Your Neighbor
The book of James is basic, entry-level, in-your-face Christianity. A real workout. Nothing fancy. No glamor-cize at the club. Just crunches, push-ups, and heavy bag work in a smelly basement gym. If you are up to the challenge, James will shape you into a hard-body believer. During this series, Fit Faith, we’ll tackle some of the most practical teaching outside of the gospels. James was known as "James the Just", someone who put his faith into practice in a real and practical way. James will stretch us to grasp the importance of putting our faith into action as described in God's word. Are you ready to get fit?
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What A Change When God Moves In
Are you like a glove without a hand in it? Not moving. Not doing a thing! Or are you like a glove filled with a hand. Have you been filled with the Holy Spirit and is the Spirit moving within you to be obedient to God?
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Jesus and the Bible
To believe the Bible is the Word of God, but separate it from daily experience is to misuse it, and to ignore Christ’s pattern for using the Bible.
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The Cost of Discipleship: Pursuing Ease and Safety or Hard Obedience?
In Acts 21 we find Paul headed toward Jerusalem. He has a mission to finish, an offering to deliver and an assignment to fulfill - but there is trouble ahead. Like signs on a highway, the warning lights appear ahead of time. One road is hard, the other is easy. What should he do? Today in the Word we will look at different versions of the Christian life to discern which one rings true. In a sense, Paul’s dilemma is no different from Jesus’ dilemma which is no different from our dilemma.
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The Great (Sales) Commission
Many Christians avoid participating in the Great Commission because it seems very much like a sales job. But is the Great Commission really about sales? Or, has our programmatic approach to Christianity caused us to misunderstand it? Key verses: Matt 28:18ff; Rom 1:1; Acts 16:7ff; 2Cor 1:3-7; 1Pet 3:8-15
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Christian Discipleship
As Jesus ministers to a blind beggar, we learn what true Christian discipleship looks like.
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Lost in Translation
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "What you do speaks so loudly, I cannot hear what you say." It is equally true that what we don’t do is so deafening that no one wants to listen to what we have to say. If we want to speak the gospel, we must set aside our own expectations of rights and entitlement and serve others in a self-sacrificing language that is understood by every culture: we must quit talking at people in a language they don’t understand, and begin showing them what the gospel means.
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Are You Chosen to Follow Jesus?
What was the real issue in this story? It was about being chosen by God. The Hebrews were chosen from all the nations of the world to be God's special people. Similarly, the NT teaches us that all followers of Jesus Christ, both Jews and Gentiles, are chosen by God to be His special people in these last days of time. Instead of choosing only one ethnic group to save, God chooses people from all ethnic groups. God chooses Jews and Gentiles from all over the world to be His chosen people. These people are chosen to follow the Messiah. Again, they are not chosen because they are intrinsically better than anybody else. In fact, they are sinners like everybody else. Instead, they are chosen on the same basis that God chose Abraham; they are chosen because of their trusting, obedient faith in God. They believe God's word and they accept God's Messiah--God's own Son, Jesus--as their personal Savior and Lord. I will briefly explain three implications of being one of God's chosen people.
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Lose Your Life to Christ and His Cross
From this crucial text in the gospel of Mark, Pastor Brian Curtis asks us: 1. What does it mean to lose your life to Jesus' cross? and 2. Why is it worth the sacrifice to do so? Listen to the words of our Lord as he calls to deny our selves, take up our cross, and follow him. Listen as Christ calls us to lose our lives.
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