Sermons About Emotion
Following Like Jesus
The hallmark of our Christian faith is that we actually live it out! "Our faith" is to be more than just an intellectual knowledge or an emotional experience but it is to have practical and powerful impact on our daily lives! As we speak of Jesus "incarnation" it becomes clearly apparent that in order to achieve what He achieved, He had to have absolute TRUST in the plan of the Father! The classic "struggle" was when He faced His impending death, and cries out in the garden of Gethsemane "not my will but Your will be done." Those four words might summarize the entirety of our commitment to Jesus Christ - "Your will be done." So here is the rub....why do we find it so difficult to release control of our lives into the loving hands of Jesus? Why is "following" often such a struggle for us? What is it that keeps us from this deep, abiding contentment of taking our hands off and surrendering 100% to Him? Following the Father's plan took Jesus to the cross! Are we prepared to "lay it all on the line" in order to follow Him today?
0 Amens
A Beneficial Terror
The fear of God is an unpopular topic in our day and age. We often prefer to think of God as a sort of nice grandfather who gives out presents but never disciplines. But the one true God in the Bible is the almighty Creator of the entire universe who rules and reigns with both love and wrath, and we should all have a healthy fear of Him because He can discipline us now for disobeying His good commands. We should also fear Him because we will all stand before Him one day and give an account for what we did with our lives, and He has the power and authority to punish those who do not put their trust in His Son in hell for all eternity.
0 Amens
A Reformed-Charismatic Approach to Our Bible
<p>This is the first message in a series of messages on what it means to be both reformed and charismatic. These are Christian distinctives that you don't often find in combination. Each has its own particular stereotypes and its own unique tendencies, strengths and weaknesses; we believe that at their best, both positions are biblical, and our goal will be to capture and embrace the strengths of both as we see them in Scripture.</p> <p>In the way that reformed believers approach Scripture, one of their particular strengths is to emphasize the truth, authority, infallibility, sufficiency, and God-breathed nature of scripture. Scripture is God's word to us and it is our source of truth and it is our authority in all matters of life and death. Scripture is to serve as the one objective measure by which we judge all other subjective matters of experience.</p> <p>In the way that charismatic believers approach Scripture, one of their particular strengths is to emphasize the effect that Scripture is to have on us, and the proper response that we are to have. In our reading of scripture God is communicating not <i>merely</i> truth to us, but also encouragement, comfort and hope, as well as warnings and admonition. Scripture is to cause us to grow in joy, contentment, peace, humility. It is to change us, bring wisdom to our foolishness, and speak to every area of our lives.</p> <p>Fortunately, we do not have to choose between these two! We are to eagerly study Scripture as our source of truth, and we are to hungrily apply that truth to our lives as we grow in faith and affection for God, resulting in worship toward him.</p>
0 Amens
Emotional Margin
We have emotional limits, but God's presence creates emotional margin for us.
0 Amens
Getting Emotional At Christmas (Luke 2:1-14)
Christmas brings up all kinds of positive and negative emotions. But, what are we supposed to “feel” at Christmas? What is the Christmas feel? In this sermon, we look at how to get emotional at Christmas.
0 Amens
