Sermons About Forgiveness
How To Love Difficult People
We are supposed to love other people who are not easy to love. As you know, we encounter many kinds in our day to day living. But, there are four kinds of people who make it especially difficult for us to love them--Difficult people, Demanding people, Disappointing people, and Destructive people. God commands us to love other people. How do you respond in love to each of these groups of people? Our Bible text gives us four descriptions of godly love. In so doing, it tells us how to treat each of the four difficult groups.
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The Attitude of Prayer
"The Lord's Prayer" was never intended to be recited over and over without meaning (because the heart is not right). It is a guide of the intensity we HAVE to pray. We have to pray persistant and unrelenting, to the point of being annoying. (from a human standpoint, as God cannot be annoyed) This is what Jesus shows us how to do with "The Lord's Prayer", until God answers our prayer.
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The Church of Pergamum: Revelation 2:12-27
The church at Pergamum, much like many of our American churches, was filled with three kinds of people: the faithful, the compromisers, and the people who didn’t know which group was correct. As the political capital of the region, emperor worship was at its zenith in Pergamum; it was the place where Satan had his throne. In this context, Jesus rebukes the faithful for tolerating people in their church who are both compromising and telling others that it is ok to compromise. He calls the church at Pergamum and us to confront sin, root it out, and fight it. Our Savior calls us to repent of everything that threatens us from knowing and experiencing the fullness of joy that he has come to offer.
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Sticks and Stones
We tend to accumulate and carry around the baggage of the "sticks" and "stones" said to us throughout our lives. Today we'll delve into recognizing our baggage and see how Jesus Christ commands us to let go of it through forgiveness.
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The Prodigal God, Part 3, He Came to His Senses
This is a story about the meltdown of a family. The key to restoring the family is repentance. There is worldly repentance that is the result of pain and not a Godly repentance that is the result of hating the act. The nature of repentance is pain (consequences) and asking forgiveness from God and others sinned against, thereby earning grace, amazing grace.
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Give Forgiveness - #4
Pastor Stan teaches about forgiveness as it is found in Matthew 18, showing how to cure conflict and the principles of forgiving living.
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