Sermons About Expectations
Mandates and Expectations
The church has certain mandates from God. When we obey those mandates, we can expect certain reinforcements from God.
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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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Growing Up
Growing up and the first purpose of prayer is relationship with God. There is no higher purpose or pleasure that you and I will know.
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One-Trick Pony
The crowd that gathered to cheer as Jesus entered Jerusalem for the last time had a lot of expectations — expectations that Jesus had no intention of fulfilling.
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Expectations Management
This sermon was preached at Christ Memorial Church in Williston, VT. Here Chris was asked to preach in the midst of sermon series on the parables of Jesus. This sermon was on the parable of the wheat and tares and Chris demonstrates that the main thrust of the passage is to help us with our expectations of the Kingdom of God.
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When My Circumstances Work Out Right
I. In Bad Circumstances, See What God is Doing (v12-14) II. In Mixed Circumstances, Be Careful of Your Expectations (v15-18) III. In Future Circumstances, Remember Your Purpose (v19-26)
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When My Circumstances Work Out Right
From his prison cell, Paul looks at his situation and shows us that happiness doesn’t have to be based on our circumstances. His bad, mixed, and future circumstances actually fill him with happiness because he has allowed the gospel and his passion to inform how he responds.
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Easter - The Way of the Resurrection
When the women went to the tomb to treat Jesus' body with spices, they had certain expectations about their Lord: they expected Him to be dead, His body to be in the tomb. How surprised they were! We often have expectations of Jesus that He loves to dash. We also depend on "Bail-me-out" Jesus when we reap the consequences of poor choices, or we look to "Safe" Jesus and strip Him of His divinity. Listen to Pastor Tim Kelly's special Easter message on the miracle of Christ's Resurrection.
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Jesus And The Ultimate Question
Who is Jesus really? Back in the earliest portions of the Bible God had promised whoever was willing to listen that one day He would visit this world to bring redemption. He foretold, through prophets, throughout the centuries, in the Hebrew Scriptures that he would send a Redeemer or Savior. Once he arrived even John the Baptist had doubts about whether or not Jesus was the one sent by God. He asked, "Are you the one or do we keep looking?". Have you ever had questions, if not doubts, surface because Jesus isn't really what you expected or he did not solve some problem like you wanted him to? The truth is, Jesus doesn't always meet our expectations or fix our problems like we think he should. But the ultimate question is actually, "Are you the one?", and the answer to that question is "Yes".
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