Sermons About Goal
The Power of Focus
You will only have real spiritual growth in life by learning the power of focus. To achieve what God wants for you – you must be a person of focus. In 2 Timothy 2 Paul is writing to Timothy in a jail cell and he is telling him how to be a focused, growing disciple. He gives him three illustrations to teach him how to use the power of focus.
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A Fisherman's Tale
Fish. I can take 'em or leave 'em. They may be okay to eat but who can warm up to a cold, wet, slimy fish? How do you motivate someone to fish if they have no love for fish? What do I do with Jesus' command to fish?
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A Story of Glory
Have you ever gotten so caught up in a good story that you imagined being a part of the story? The Bible is God's story of His glory and He invites us to get caught up in it. What did that look like last year? What about next year?
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Cross-Training
While "training" may be a word more associated with things of sports than things of the Spirit, Paul's call to Timothy to "train yourself for godliness is a call to all believers to live everyday, in every way, for God through Christ.
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A Cause Worth Living For
Writing about climate change, Al Gore says: “The climate crisis also offers us the chance to experience what very few generations in history have had the privilege of knowing: a generational mission; the exhilarations of a compelling moral purpose; a shared and unifying cause; the thrill of being forced by circumstances to put aside the pettiness and conflict that so often stifle the restless human need for transcendence; the opportunity to rise...When we rise, we will experience and epiphany as we discover that this crisis is not really about politics at all. It is a moral and spiritual challenge.†Lofty words....inspirational....visionary... Question: Should we not be even MORE passionate about matters that will impact eternity? Do we have a compelling moral purpose, cause, or generational mission that we will give our all to fulfill? Key Passage: 2 Timothy 2:3-4
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Pursuing the Prize
Even though we so often pursue many other prizes, the Apostle Paul describes the ultimate prize as knowing Jesus Christ in the everyday, the essence of true victory.
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Catching Vision
Has God given you a dream and vision for your life? Maybe it doesn't make sense right now. Maybe it's not popular. Maybe you're criticized and ridiculed like Joseph when God gave him a dream.
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The Goal of Youth Ministry - Our Goal for Our Youth
Rather than asking first, what is our goal for our youth ministry, we need to figure out what our goal for our youth should be. Then, when we have that firmly established, we can look at how our church's ministry to young people should fit into that larger goal. As Christians, our ultimate goal for our young people should be that whether they eat or drink, or whatever they do, that they would do all to the glory of God. Or, to state it another way, our goal for our children is that they intentionally glorify God and enjoy Him now and forever.
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Living in the Dash
C.H. Spurgeon once said "A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you. So carve your name on hearts, and not on marble." How are you living your life? When it is all said and done...what will you have done with the talents and abilities God has given you? Key Passage: Matthew 25:14-30
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