Sermons About Gladness
Ezra 6: Renewal: The Joy of Restoration
The Restoration of our Identity as the people of God should lead us to JOY. Serving the Lord as an activity is never enough. We are to serve the Lord with gladness.
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A Promise-keeping, Joy-producing, Wisdom-giving God
Gladness should grip the hearts of God's people when they focus on His faithfulness.
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Joy
We are taking the Christmas words back! You see them on every Christmas card and hear them in every Christmas song but what do they really mean? How do the words used to describe the original Christmas scene apply to my life today? Join us each Sunday morning as Jonge and Chris take us through a 6 week series on these Christmas words and rediscover the beauty of that first Christmas night. Hope Joy Peace Good News Goodwill Wisdom
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I Love to Tell the Story...of how Jesus' glory is for gladness
I live in the real world and my faith must also. The plastic faith of Jesus trinkets and bad Christian movies makes me angry. Making Jesus to serve our interest, as we talked about last week, does not come anywhere near to the life that I actually live. I don't know if you've noticed, but actual relationships don't fit into 5 steps – or 40 love dares, whatever is the fad today. It just doesn't work that way and Jesus never works that way. Jesus is intent on showing us that glory at all costs. Because He loves me he wants me to believe through seeing a display of glory. He is glad when suffering allows me to believe. Lazarus is an example of God's nearness and very particular governance of the worst we can imagine in this world. He loves us so much He will providentially guides us into and through suffering so that we might see His glory and believe – this will make both him and us glad.
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Occupied with the Gladness of Our Hearts
Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 Life can be hard at times; there are questions we can't answer, problems that we can't solve, and sometimes it's difficult for us to see God's plan and purpose for our life. And all around us those in the world without Christ are looking for answers too, and often finding only emptiness and frustration. Solomon, the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes – or the "teacher" as he called himself – faces these deep problems and questions of life head-on. He doesn't sugar-coat them, nor does he hide his own failings; he goes to the depths of despair and comes back. But through the dark clouds of this book, God does break through with some light, and Solomon gives us some of that God-given wisdom here.
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God's Way to Global Gladness
God's Way to Global Gladness (SERIES: Over the Rivers and Through The Providence -- The Psalms: Songs We Sing Along the Way) Psalm 67
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Death Changes Everything
As the Teacher wrestles with the meaning of life, he is confronted with the ways in which death changes the way we look at life.
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The Glad-Hearted God
Is God mostly mad, sad, or glad with you as a person? How do you perceive God to view you?
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