Sermons About Faithfulness
The Savior Came to Church (Luke 2:22-40)
Being Siemons and Annas of the church today involved waiting expectantly for the Savior's promises to come into our world again and again each Christmas. The Savior is with us always, but we as the church must make him visible to others just as Simeon and Anna did.
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Christmas and Matthew's Geneaology
The story of Christmas stretches way back through the ages and generations. Learn how Matthew's genealogy teaches the most important lessons of Christmas.
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Give Presence: Galatians 5.22-25
What if Christmas looked different this year? What if you could receive a gift that lasted forever? Or what if you could give gifts that did? We want to invite you to rethink Christmas with us this year and to experience it for what it was meant to be. On Sunday, November 30 Advent begins. For some this might be new. It was for me and my family a few years ago as well, but it is a season that my family and I have grown to love and enjoy. The word advent means to come. During the Advent season we celebrate God sending Jesus to earth wrapped in human skin. We also look with great anticipation to the second coming of Jesus, who is coming again for His Bride, the church. In Scripture Jesus testifies that He is the one who is and who was and who is to come (Revelation 1.8). This is what we will be celebrating this coming season. We will be celebrating Advent during our worship gatherings beginning November 30 culminating at our Christmas Eve service.
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Unstoppable Pt. 11 - A Faithless People's Faithful God
The overarching theme of the Bible, from cover to cover, is that God is faithful when his people are unfaithful. Time and time again, despite humanity's repeated wanderings and rebellion, God demonstrates his heart to forgive and lead his people, even when they choose to leave him.
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John 4:1-10- Working Through Tiredness
Jesus was tired, but He still was available to the work of God. How about you?
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Mission on the Margins
In the 21st c entury, Christians no longer have a favored place at the center of society; we're on the margins again, where we do best...
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History Matters
Psalm 100 In our day, many are declaring that those who came before us couldn't have understood the challenges we face and therefore, history – while at times quaint and fun to remember – need not take up much of our time. But the Bible is history! In fact, our faith is grounded in the historical promises and actions of God Himself, most notably the entrance of God's Son into human history as Jesus Christ. It is still true that those who neglect history will find themselves ill prepared to makes sense out of the present. To those who follow Christ, history matters!
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Jonah's Prayer
Our friend Chris teaches us about thanksgiving through Jonah's honest cry to God for help and reminds us of God's faithfulness and love.
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What Then Shall We Do? - Love, Mercy, and Justice part 7
Two weeks ago at Sovereign King, we looked at a passage in Micah where God was literally holding court against His people. In His case against them, He accused them of forgetting several key things. They had forgotten… That God had taken them from slaves and made them children. That God had protected them from their enemies when they came into the Promised Land. That God had not always punished them as their sins deserve. That God had given them the freedom to worship Him without fear. Our take away from that sermon was that even though we may remember what God has done for us in the past, just remembering is not enough. If that memory doesn't give us hope for today, then we are essentially forgetting God as well. I encouraged us all in the day to day to remember what Jesus has done for us by His work on the cross. We can do that in some very simple ways: By sharing with others what Christ has done for us. By recognizing that Jesus' death was sufficient for us and therefore not living in guilt. By celebrating the fact that when we are faithless, He is faithful still. As we return to the book of Micah and we find that God's court case has come and gone, the people of Micah's time finally get around to asking the right question. They want to know, "Well, what should we do?" Now it is difficult to determine exactly out of what motivation the people of God were asking their question, but I do think this is the best time to ask that question. Knowing that God has been, is presently, and is always going to be faithful to you because of Jesus Christ, that is the perfect time to ask Him what He would have you do because you know that no matter what, even if you fail or succeed, God is going to be there for you. This is sort of like learning to ride a bike when you were a kid. My experience wasn't very good because my brother put me on the bike at the top of a hill and just pushed me down. I wound up with a broken nose, so that didn't end very well. No, most folks have a parent walking beside them, steadying them on two wheels. And if the child starts to fall, the parent catches them. Eventually, the child figures out that they can risk falling and risk riding because they know they have their parent there to catch them either way. That's what it is like if you are asking God what He would have you do when you know that He will be faithful to you even if you are faithless. So having said all that, in the sermon this Sunday, why don't we seek to answer the very question that the people of God were asking. They asked that in light of God's faithfulness, "What should WE offer back to God?" Let's find out.
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