Sermons About Grow
Grow
What kind of environment does it take to create spiritual growth? “‘…neither do I condemn you,’ Jesus declared. ‘Go now and leave your life of sin.’” John 8:11 Jesus offered the woman caught in adultery grace and forgiveness as well as truth, hope, and an opportunity for transformation and growth. We should create a "growing" community where people intentionally seek to grow and encourage others to do likewise.
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Thrive - Grow
This message is message number two in our series, "Come. Thrive. Own." This series has been designed to give you an opportunity to take next steps in your journey with God.
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401K
God has called us to be stewards of what He has given us but we need to focus on the 401K that will never be lost or stolen but will continue to grow outrageously.
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Faith that Finishes Strong
Spiritual Growth can be hard to measure. Sometimes, it feels like we aren't making any progress at all. Join us as we explore how taking one step of faith after another eventually leads us toward maturity.
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It's time to Grow
The Church at Corinth was dealing with several issues, such as: division, jealously, and immoral lifestyles. In this sermon Paul hits the nail on the head, all of these problems are a result of their lack of spiritual growth.
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The Problem with Settling for Less than God's Best
When we leave God out of our days, we try to bear more weight that we can handle. We may begin by making minor compromises, but eventually we are headed for a collapse. Listen as we explore a better plan to design our days with God as a part of our lives.
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The Mysterious Comfort of a God Who Fights Against Us
This sermon unpacks one of the strangest stories of the Bible: Jacob's wrestling with God. Join us as we explore the mystery of confronting the Terrible-Beautiful God. God sometimes comes as an adversary, but broken and sinful people who surrender to Him find new life and blessing. As C. S. Lewis once portrayed Him: "He's good, but not safe."
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What to Do When You Face Mission:Impossible
When life feels like "Mission:Impossible," it's time to call for outside help. With God on our side, we can walk through life's challenges rather than running away from them. In this sermon, we explore Jacob's prayer for God's help as he faced the seemingly impossible reunion with his brother Esau.
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Grace + Truth + Time = Life Change
We all want to change. Oprah wants you to change. Dr. Phil wants you to change. The bookstores offer us 365 Daily Secrets to Change. Your spouse wants you to change. Your kids want you to change. You want to change. We want to change our clothes, our hair, our waistsize, our breath, our love life, our cholesterol, our carpet, our car, and our iPod version. We also want to change our tempers, our greed, our laziness, our giving, our attitudes, our service, our selfishness, our habits, our sanctification, our worship, our faithfulness, our devotion, our love. So, how do you change? The answer: GRACE + TRUTH + TIME = LIFE CHANGE
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Grow
We continue in a new series that redefines our vision and calls us to a life of transformational power.Let's review our vision statement. "Walking together as we experience the life-changing journey of knowing and living for Jesus."
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Growing through Hardship
Every life has hardship. Some hardships we bring on ourselves. Some are simply a result of life in a fallen world. Some are caused by those around us. How should we respond when hardship comes? We continue our series with this sometimes humorous look the ups and downs in the life of Jacob.
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Peter's Way of Grace
When Peter calls his readers to grow in the grace of Jesus Christ, he is speaking from many experiences of living in and by the grace of God.
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Grow (7 Habits for Confident Living)
Our second key value at Pinecrest...GROW. We look at what it takes to grow in our knowledge and faith of Jesus Christ.
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Spirituality and Community
This group of Christ followers were not grasping the body metaphor Christ gave them to live. What does it mean to learn humility and find our place in the body of Jesus? In fact, aren't the two (humility & the body of Christ) dependent on each other?
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When Right is Wrong - Part 2
It seems like everywhere we look we encounter people who are only looking out for themselves. We see selfish people on the highway, at the grocery store and even in the bathroom mirror. Often our attitudes are driven by the deep conviction that we are better than others. In this section of his letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul says that there is a way to live that puts other people first and sees them as equals. This way of life is what God is all about. He takes it very seriously when we treat someone with prejudice or with pride. God’s desire is that we would emulate Jesus and live with humility, seeking equality and justice for others.
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When Right is Wrong - Part 1
What does it take to be community? What does a community of Christ followers look like? What will that kind of community be known for in their city, on their planet? These questions are answered when God deals with a rather strange conflict over eating meat. Nope, it’s not a call by God to become vegetarian. It’s a deeper call to self-giving love.
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Spirituality and Singleness
single… …the word carries many different connotations. For some it means freedom, while for others it is the source of great pain. Whatever the word may mean to us, St. Paul encourages us to look at this word from a different perspective. For many of us the question is not whether we should be single, but “are we so attached to our idea of how things should be that we lose perspective of what God may want for us?” So, if we want to be married, what if God wants us single? If we want to be single, what if God wants us married? In this spiritual talk Lee talks with a group of singles and begins to unpack some of these ideas God has on what it means to be…single.
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Spirituality and Marriage
For some people marriage can be a big scary word and they hesitate to commit. For other people getting married was the one thing they wanted most. From either view, St. Paul lays down a couple of really important things for married couples in this part of his letter to the Corinthian faith community. Perhaps the most important of those things is the act of putting our partner first.
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Spirituality and Sex
What does it mean to rethink sex and spirituality? For a long time it seems like the church has been silent on the area of sex or has prohibited it altogether. Yet, the Bible talks about topics like sex far more than many other issues. Addressing the faith community in Corinth, St. Paul makes some pretty bold statements about sexuality and the human soul. In this talk Lee discusses what it means to be bought by God and how that impacts our sexual choices.
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The Spirituality Greenhouse
Where is the best place to GROW spiritually? Is there a place that exists that would be like a spirituality greenhouse? What happens if weeds get into the greenhouse? In 1 Corinthians 5 St. Paul is addressing a community of Christ Followers who have allowed their Greenhouse to slip into disrepair. Because this church has allowed sin to settle, their entire community is in danger. Check out how Paul handles the situation and find out about some of the background to the story in this spiritual talk entitled the Spirituality Greenhouse.
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American Idol Spirituality
In life, picking favorites seems to come almost naturally. Whether its baseball teams or restaurants, we all have things we prefer. The church in Corinth had preferences too. The problem was that they let those preferences divide them. This ancient church had the modern American Idol mentality when it came to their spiritual leaders. They loved to follow individuals based on their charisma, lineage in the faith and original influence on them. They needed to be reminded that the church was God’s (3:9). These cultural values led to divisions, conflict and immaturity. They also led to an infatuation with teaching styles along the lines of culture's entertainment. This type of favoritism can be a quick killer of spiritual GROWth in our lives because it fosters pride.
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