Sermons About Disciplines
Revive 1
Do you feel that God is distant? Is your relationship with Him stale or not progressing? Maybe you need to be revived. In this two week series entitled Revive, we will discover the importance of personal revival. We will understand our need for it, and also how to develop a sense of the nearness of God.
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The Saint Paul Fast
Fasting is a valuable tool for our Christian walk. In the case of St. Paul's fast, we can use fasting to help us make important decisions in our lives.
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The Discipline of Family
Family is a God-ordained institution. Our conduct and participation in family is orchestrated and guided by God's word. Ultimately, God creates and calls us to participation in family as a gift of His grace for our good. Participation in family as a spiritual discipline helps us to grow in our understanding of and ablility in: 1. Submission - as we learn to be under authority we then learn to use authority (Luke 2:41-52) 2. Sacrifice - families force us to deal with our selfishness and learn to live a life of love (John 2:1-12) 3. Service - In family we learn to fulfill our responsibilities as agents of God. (John 19:23-30 While most of us have eperienced at least some level of dysfunction in our family units, often leaving wounds and emotional scars, Jesus expands the intstitution to include all people who hear the word of God and do it. In other words, the church - the body of Christ - is to function as family. Our participation in church then, offers us a place to not only heal, but to continue to grow in the disciplines of family, learning submission, sacrifice, and service.
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The Discipline of Media
Dan Palmberg, one of the elders at The Table, explores our relationship with media and the spiritual realities of exercising spiritual disciplines in our relationship with media.
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Disciplines of Life: Part Three
Continueing our study of Spiritual Disciplines as the avenues of transformation by God's grace, we look this morning at the Discipline of Solitude. Solitude is a gracious gift of God offered to help us break out of selfishness and the compulsion to impress others. In being alone, we discover who we truly are, and are able to listen to God and be refreshed by His Spirit. In being alone, we discover that we are never truly alone - and in this awareness, we are set free. In being alone, we are prepared to be in community, and out of solitude we will have the inner heart necessary for true compassion and missional engagement with others. In doing this, we are walking in the footsteps of Jesus who modelled for us a life of inter-dependency on the Father.
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Disciplines of Life: Part Two
This sermon continues to unpack the means by which spiritual growth takes place. The Spiritual Disciplines are good gifts from a generous God to meet our needs. Today we focus on the spiritual discipline of serving; sacrificial, self-denying, often secret acts of service. This disicpline is designed to break our heart of loving ourself in an idolatrous fashion and fill our heart with the love of Christ for our neighbors.
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Disciplines of Life
How do we grow into the type of people that God created us to be and that we truly long to be? The apostle Paul describes the tension that best answers this question when he wrote: So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. Philip. 2:12-13 (NASB-U) God's grace is what transforms, but He calls us to participate in that transformation and He provides us with the spiritual disciplines as the avenue of that participation. In Proverbs 3:13-35, we have sound biblical instruction about this process. We see that: 1. Wisdom is to be PREFERRED. 2. Wisdom is to be PONDERED. 3. Wisdom is to be PERSONAL. 4. Wisdom is to be PRACTICED.
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The Path & Process of Wisdom
As we re-enter our study on practical wisdom from the book of Proverbs, its imperative that we understand that life is a journey and that our destiny is sealed not so much by the big events as by the daily decisions. Therefore, wisdom encourages us toward a set of daily disciplines that move us along the path of life.
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