Sermons About Fellowship
Community In Christ
When it comes to community the church today needs to turn back to Paul's instructions in Phillipians
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Jesus Came to Bring You Hope
The Bible tells us that the first Christmas brought good news of great joy. Those who doubted regained faith. Those who felt small received blessing. Those who were overlooked found peace. Those who waiting for something big to come along, celebrated. We believe Christmas still brings good news of great joy. Come, celebrate with us.
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Song of Celebration
The Bible tells us that the first Christmas brought good news of great joy. Those who doubted regained faith. Those who felt small received blessing. Those who were overlooked found peace. Those who waiting for something big to come along, celebrated. We believe Christmas still brings good news of great joy. Come, celebrate with us.
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Song of Joy
The Bible tells us that the first Christmas brought good news of great joy. Those who doubted regained faith. Those who felt small received blessing. Those who were overlooked found peace. Those who waiting for something big to come along, celebrated. We believe Christmas still brings good news of great joy. Come, celebrate with us.
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Song of Blessing
The Bible tells us that the first Christmas brought good news of great joy. Those who doubted regained faith. Those who felt small received blessing. Those who were overlooked found peace. Those who waiting for something big to come along, celebrated. We believe Christmas still brings good news of great joy. Come, celebrate with us.
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Being Satisfied in God (Psalm 119:57-64)
Most of our spiritual struggles (if not all) come from the fact that we are seeking satisfaction in things other than God; we have competing desires. Are greatest spiritual joys come when find our complete satisfaction in God Himself. When we rest and rely completely on Him, finding in Him the answer to all our hearts desires.
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Life Link
This stand alone sermon preached by Paul Wingfield addresses the great need for community that God has instilled in us all. Life-Link is the new small group ministry at South Telegraph which creates a platform for people to connect. God never intended His children to try to make it through life alone, it's simply too tough. Life-Link connects the dot between what we hear on Sunday and the reality of our daily lives. Are you in a small group yet?
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Song of Faith
The Bible tells us that the first Christmas brought good news of great joy. Those who doubted regained faith. Those who felt small received blessing. Those who were overlooked found peace. Those who waiting for something big to come along, celebrated. We believe Christmas still brings good news of great joy. Come, celebrate with us.
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House Rules Part 2
Two weeks ago at Sovereign King, we started our new series on the letters of John entitled "House Rules" where we talked about how John is going to describe what it looks like to be a believer. Essentially he says that if a person is a believer in Christ, then there are going to be some family characteristics just like there are in any family. For example, my mom is five feet tall. My dad is five seven. My hopes of playing in the NBA were greatly diminished because I bear the family trait of being short. Now, I remember one time in college where I went on a retreat and there was a basketball tournament for anyone that was 5 feet 6 inches or shorter. Technically, I'm 5' 7" and 1/2 but I told a little white like so I could dominate the tournament. Sorry, didn't mean to make that confession time. The point of the story is that my height is directly related to my family, and the curly nappy hair comes from my mom's side of the family as well. In the same way, the family of God will share some similar qualities and resemble each other as well. We won't look alike physically, and I'm sure you guys are all thankful you don't have to look like me and to be honest, I'm pretty thankful I'm don't have to look like you. But we will live our lives in some similar fashion. In fact, in chapter one, John identified five of those characteristics. He said, If you are part of the family of God then you will have a consistent growing life of obedience and transformation. o The children of God will not be perfect, but their life will be described as the habitual process of walking in the light and not in the darkness. o John doesn't pull any punches. We are liars if we claim to have fellowship with God but consistently walk in darkness. If you are part of the family of God, then you must have fellowship with other believers. o Specifically, we have fellowship with each other because we all stand cleansed of unrighteousness before God. o This is not a loose, "Hey I have Christian friends," but this is a created community that comes out of the design of God before the foundation of the world. If you are part of the family of God, you walk in humility. o If you or anyone else who claims to be a Christian say they have no sin in their life, you and they are deceived and don't know the truth. Humility is described by John as admitting and walking in the realization that we are sinners. o A recent book entitled, "Unchristian" by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons surveyed folks who do not claim to believe in Jesus and asked them to describe their impressions of the followers of Christ here in America. Their top three responses were "hypocritical," "insensitive," and "judgmental" - humility was no where near the top, in fact statistically, the number of people calling Christians humble was non-existent. o We should see something wrong with that. We should hear that and repent. If you are part of the family of God, you will confess your sins regularly and you will be forgiven regularly. o A regular habit of the believer is to walk before your God, confessing sin, and asking for forgiveness of that sin. o We should walk around with in the ever present reality of both the ugliness of our sin and the beauty of the grace of Christ. If you are part of the family of God, you will be honest and admit to each other and to the world that you are a sinner. o Listen, if you aren't honest about your sin, and you present yourself as not constantly needing forgiveness, by default you are calling God your Father a liar. o Lack of honesty about your sin is evidence that the word is not in you. So we see some consistent characteristics there: obedience, fellowship, humility, confession, and honesty. So knowing what characteristics should shape the life of a believer, we get to ask a really practical question this week. People who have those defining qualities, what can and what should those kind of people...do? Let's find out.
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The Full Life is Meant to be Shared
Lead Pastor Jeff Lawrence's son, Mike, had an accident while they were vacationing in La Jolla, California. On Sunday morning, October 5th, he fell out a window onto a concrete walkway nearly three stories below. Amazingly, Mike's life was spared, and in time he should see a full recovery. Jeff and family remained with Mike in California while he was recovering. This traumatic experience combined with several weeks in a beautiful place created space for some intense reflection. Jeff will be sharing some of what he's been learning in a new sermon series called "Living in La Jolla: Field Notes from Heaven-on-Earth."
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