Sermons About Expect
The Greatest Virtues 2 - Hope
Faith…Hope…Love …the greatest virtues! Faith produces a work. (achievement, accomplishment) Love labors. (the tiring and painful labor needed to achieve) Hope produces patience (persistence, perseverance, endurance) Let’s talk about Hope.
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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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The Power of Expectation
We are people afraid of great expectations. That includes expecting things from God. We are so afraid of being disappointed, so we never expect God to do great things. In Luke we learn of a Gentile who expected Jesus to do something spectacular – and He did. We can learn from this story how to have the power of expectation.
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Expecting, Part 4: Expecting Jesus
What can we expect from Jesus in 2009? The miracle of feeding the 5000 gives us some clues.
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Expecting, Part 3: Great Expectations
Part 3 in our Christmas series "Expecting" looks at the man Simeon who had been waiting for the Messiah and was one of the first to recognize him as such, even while Jesus was just days old.
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Recipe #2 Realistic Expectations
Recipe #2: Realistic Expectations 1. I create security when I stop working on my mate and I start working on myself. â€For we are each responsible for our own conduct." Galatians 6:5 (NLT) “And why worry about a speck in your friend's eye when you have a log in your own?†Matthew 7:3 (NLT) 2. I create security when I start working on MY heart. My heart determines my actions. “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.†Proverbs 4:23 (NIV) “For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.†Matthew 12:34 “As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man.†Proverbs 27:19 “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.†Proverbs 23:7 (NKJV) "Don't you understand?" Jesus asked him. "Anything you eat passes through the stomach and then goes out of the body. But evil words come from an evil heart and defile the person who says them. For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all other sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander. These are what defile you. Eating with unwashed hands could never defile you and make you unacceptable to God!" Matthew 15:19, 20 (NLT) My heart needs to be examined. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Psalm 139:23 (NIV) My heart can change. For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. Romans 10:9, 10 (NLT) Jesus: “I'm here inviting outsiders, not insiders--an invitation to a changed life, changed inside and out.†Luke 5:32 (MSG)
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I Stand in Awe of You
If worship is the fuel through which we live our lives, then we need to learn more about the power and glory that is available to us when we encounter the living God. Malachi talks about people who were "bored with church." Sounds familiar, eh? How can we place ourselves in a position to give our praise to God in a way that will honor Him, and what can we rightly expect "in return" from our corporate times of worship. I'm so excited about this topic! Key Passage: Acts 2:43 & Hebrews 10:45
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Expecting God in our Marriages
Exploring the role of faith in marriage and the importance of looking for evidences of God’s grace in our marriage and our spouse.
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Expecting God in the Midst of Hardship
God uses trials and hardships in our lives to produce good blessings that could not come otherwise. Knowing that God is sovereign and ordains the trials in our lives for our good gives us a foundation of trust and joy to walk through trials expecting God to use them to make us more like Christ.
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Expecting God in our Evangelism
God calls His church to evangelize, but like any other aspect of the Christian walk we cannot do it apart from faith. This message looks at the role of faith in God to save souls through the power of the gospel as we faithfully witness for Jesus Christ.
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