Sermons About Growth
Open the Bible...Get Blown Away
The Bible, God's Word, has the power and potential to effectively produce some extraordinary and positive changes in our lives. God invites all of us to open the Bible and get blown away by it's relevant and timely message for us today!
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La Casa sobre la Roca / House on the Rock
Que es lo que distingue a un cristiano? La Ropa? El legalismo? Cristo nos dice con la parabola de la casa sobre la roca. What distinguishes a christian? The outward appearance? A set of rules? Christ tells us thru the story of the House on the Rock.
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Finding God In Times Of Emotional Trauma & Confusion
Pastor gives us a guide to staying on the right track amidst some of the difficulties of life.
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Finding God In Times Of Emotional Trauma & Confusion
Pastor gives us a guide to staying on the right track amidst some of the difficulties of life.
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Nuestra mision 1 / Our mission 1
La mision de la iglesia comienza con una carga o pesadez por las almas y el desarrollo de la mision y culmina el envolvimiento que lleva a una iglesia prospera. The mission of the church begins with a burden for church growth and culminates with involvement that leads to church prosperity.
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Will Your Faith Stand The Integrity Test?
Dick Dungan of Rejoice Ministries brings a Word concerning our relationship with Our Beloved Pastor George and he also shares a sermon on Will Your Faith Stand The Integrity Test? Podcast Legend: 00:00 – 38:15 – Worship 38:16 – 43:20 – Pastor George prays 43:21 – 44:48 – Cookie brings a Word 44:49 – 50:55 – Pastor George’s radio preview 50:56 – 52:47 – Various announcements 52:48 – 1:08:15 – Betty speaks then Cindi & Pastor pray with her 1:08:16 – 1:31:02 - Dick Dungan brings a Word concerning Our Beloved pastor George 1:30:03 – 1:53:30 – Dick Dungan of Rejoice Ministries shares on “Will Your Faith Stand The Integrity Test?” 1:53:31 – 2:03:42 – Closing Worship & Benediction
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Will Your Faith Stand The Integrity Test?
Dick Dungan of Rejoice Ministries brings a Word concerning our relationship with Our Beloved Pastor George and he also shares a sermon on Will Your Faith Stand The Integrity Test? Podcast Legend: 00:00 – 38:15 – Worship 38:16 – 43:20 – Pastor George prays 43:21 – 44:48 – Cookie brings a Word 44:49 – 50:55 – Pastor George’s radio preview 50:56 – 52:47 – Various announcements 52:48 – 1:08:15 – Betty speaks then Cindi & Pastor pray with her 1:08:16 – 1:31:02 - Dick Dungan brings a Word concerning Our Beloved pastor George 1:30:03 – 1:53:30 – Dick Dungan of Rejoice Ministries shares on “Will Your Faith Stand The Integrity Test?” 1:53:31 – 2:03:42 – Closing Worship & Benediction
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Something About George
We all miss Our Beloved Pastor George, each of us in our own way. Steve brings a unique message, dealing with a few of his qualities and how we each have, or can have those same qualities in our own life. Remember, you must move on and live your life in God's will.
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Something About George
We all miss Our Beloved Pastor George, each of us in our own way. Steve brings a unique message, dealing with a few of his qualities and how we each have, or can have those same qualities in our own life. Remember, you must move on and live your life in God's will.
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The Purpose of Suffering
It is Gods will to shape us into the image of His son, Jesus Christ. But, how does he accomplish this? James tells us that it begins with the testing of our faith, leads us towards patience, and ultimately brings us to maturity. There are many reasons that we resist such tests and trials, but the bottom line is this: trials are the very things God uses to mold us into the image of Christ—and there is no shortcut. Key Verses: Rom 8:28-29, Php 2:1-8, James 1:2-4, Php 4:11-13, 2Cor 11:23ff, 2Tim 4:6-8
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God Is Faithful! The Drought Is Over!
We had a time of sharing this week. It's always great to hear what God is doing in our midst and in our community.
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God Is Faithful! The Drought Is Over!
We had a time of sharing this week. It's always great to hear what God is doing in our midst and in our community.
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Masculine Spirituality (Joshua 1:8-9)
God intends for men to invest ourselves in the lives of others, working for his purposes rather than our own. We are to influence others for good, helping them to understand and pursue Christ-likeness. This begins with our families, but extends to God's church and also to the unbelievers that God has placed in our lives. Our serving others requires selfless sacrifice on our part, but God will provide us the grace and strength to be faithful to our calling as we obey.
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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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Making Room
The discipline of fasting is not one that has been widely practiced in evangelical circles but is having a bit of a “renewal” in our generation. More and more we hear people and ministries calling us to times of prayer and fasting. What is this practice all about? Why was it so important to the Jewish community and what can we learn from this discipline? In our text this weekend, Jesus simply assumes that we are a people who fast, and challenges us once again to fast for the right reasons and in the right way. Key Passages: Matthew 6:16-18 and Isaiah 58:6
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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's my part in my growth?
At various points in our lives, each of us get stuck in our spiritual development. How do move beyond surviving toward a faith that is growing and thriving?
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La Oracion en el Espiritu
Como debe ser la oracion en el Espiritu? La oracion no es como un control remoto, sino lo contrario. How can we pray in the Spirit? Prayer is not like a remote control, it is quite the contrary.
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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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Give Up What?!?
The ancient Christian practice of Lent can refocus and reinvigorate our relationship with God by temporarily eliminating a distraction from our lives, and then using the space that we gain to spend more time with Him and help others instead.
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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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God's Building Plan
Becoming a member of God’s family initiates a life long building program. Just as buildings under construction improve in appearance and function as they near completion, so too, should the behavior and attitudes of believers improve. Join us as we study 1 Peter 2 to see how God builds us up, even through tough times.
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Leaders & Priorities
Accelerated growth brings its own problems. Here we see a resolution that surfaces new leaders and growth.
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Take the Next Step - Pt. 1 - Draw Near to God
Regardless of how distant we may feel from God, or how far we may stray . . . His invitation is the same: Just take the first step back toward him! One small, timid step in his direction brings God running to meet us!
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Partners in Prayer--Leaders & Followers
I want you to see that prayers of faith are powerful tools we can use for God's glory. And, I want you to see that it is just as important for all church members to pray for their church leaders as it is for the church leaders to pray for the needs of their church members. This sermon contains three facts about prayer.
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The Authority Of The Ancient
For the follower of Jesus, the Word of God is the authority, and the source of life and joy.
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Adulthood
Spiritual growth. What is it? To some it is a nebulous, mysterious concept. To others it is an unattainable, unreachable thing reserved for the special, elite few. Still others erroneously believe that they have a corner on the spiritual growth market, that they have arrived, that they have got it all together. There is a lot of confusion and misconceptions going on around the topic of this series. One theme that will run throughout “Arrested Development” is that most of us have the tendency to place ourselves in stages of spiritual growth in which we actually aren’t. We both overrate and overestimate ourselves along the spiritual growth continuum. While some of us think that we are babies are, in reality, more mature than we think, others of us who think that we are really mature are maybe more of an adolescent or a child.
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Adolescence
Spiritual growth. What is it? To some it is a nebulous, mysterious concept. To others it is an unattainable, unreachable thing reserved for the special, elite few. Still others erroneously believe that they have a corner on the spiritual growth market, that they have arrived, that they have got it all together. There is a lot of confusion and misconceptions going on around the topic of this series. One theme that will run throughout “Arrested Development” is that most of us have the tendency to place ourselves in stages of spiritual growth in which we actually aren’t. We both overrate and overestimate ourselves along the spiritual growth continuum. While some of us think that we are babies are, in reality, more mature than we think, others of us who think that we are really mature are maybe more of an adolescent or a child.
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Infancy
Spiritual growth. What is it? To some it is a nebulous, mysterious concept. To others it is an unattainable, unreachable thing reserved for the special, elite few. Still others erroneously believe that they have a corner on the spiritual growth market, that they have arrived, that they have got it all together. There is a lot of confusion and misconceptions going on around the topic of this series. One theme that will run throughout “Arrested Development” is that most of us have the tendency to place ourselves in stages of spiritual growth in which we actually aren’t. We both overrate and overestimate ourselves along the spiritual growth continuum. While some of us think that we are babies are, in reality, more mature than we think, others of us who think that we are really mature are maybe more of an adolescent or a child.
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Grow Up! (Philippians 3:12-4:1)
Why are Christians often accused of hypocrisy? Could it be because American evangelicals are often hypocritical – claiming to believe something that they don’t actually live out? In this sermon, we will look at the damage caused by Christians that claim to follow Christ but live petty, self-centered lives and what we can do to grow beyond spiritual childhood.
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Dear Church, Look How You've Grown! (Part B) - Colossians 1:1-8
Continuing our study of the first eight verses of Paul's letter to the Colossian church, we examine the "How" of our growth in Christ -- the ways in which Christ changes and matures us.
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Going deep, growing strong 2 - Connected to the vine
Staying connected to Jesus is key to our growth and discipleship.
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Going deep, growing strong 1 - What does true maturity look like?
Five insights for the discipleship journey
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Dear Church, Look How You've Grown! (Part A) - Colossians 1:1-8
The church in Colossae shared quite a bit in common with us at Grace Central. They were a relatively new church, living in a pluralistic society with all sorts of viewpoints, religions, and philosophies that competed with Christ for their allegiance. In his letter to the Colossian church, the Apostle Paul assures them that Christ is more than enough to meet their needs.
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Tested by Fire
Often the greatest times of spiritual growth, come as the result of suffering and pain. God's greatest gifts to us, come in the form of "subtractions" instead of "additions". We grow on the valley floor ... suffering drives us deep. The authentic faith - is one that has been tested by fire, and proven powerful and rich. IN our day of "easy-believism" when we expect only good from the hand of God, perhaps the greatest challenge to our faith and to our spiritual maturity is when the storms of life begin to howl. Finding Jesus in the midst of the storm and being able to praise Him despite our pain is one of the critical steps on the journey toward Spiritual Maturity. We might not at first consider these trials as "gifts" but these "severe gifts" may be the catalyst for incredible spiritual growth if we will lean into God's purpose in them. Key Passages: Job 2:10 and Isaiah 48:10
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InVision: A Community for Spiritual Growth
This sermon deals with the life of growth and learning that we should be living as Christians which will one day be manifested in the construction of a school that reflects the Gospel in content and community.
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Growing Up is More than Showing Up
God wants every Christian to grow up spiritually. Unfortunately we have many believers today who think that "showing up" at church is the same. Spiritual growth should be the priority of every Christian.
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The Beauty Of Growing Faith
Through Abraham's handling of Sarah's death we see how his faith and trust in God has grown. Remembering back to Abraham's beginnings we should be encouraged, in those days when we think we will never grow beyond where we are, that there is hope for us as well.
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The Gospel and Growth
The message of Christianity unites the full acceptance of the sinner before God in Christ with the call to a life of holiness. Abound more and more assumes that their heart has been changed in Christ.
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A Good Return
Invest yourself in any venture, and you want to see a good return...it's simply human nature. No one wants to spend time, money or energy on a project or enterprise that seems to be headed no where...or as the saying goes..."no one wants to be the last rat on a sinking ship..." Not only is this principle of investment true in our own lives – in the pursuits we choose to take up – but it is equally true when we entrust our valuable goods to others; leave your children with a sitter – you expect all to be well when you come home! Leave your house for the neighbors to watch while on vacation – you anticipate they will look after things! Leave your money with a financial planner – you expect it to grow! In the kingdom of God, God is the investor. He has placed His possessions in our hands to steward...our time, our talents, our money, and He looks for a good return... Key Passage: Matthew 25:14-30
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Growing in Christ
Learning how we may grow in the grace and the knowledge ofthe Lord Jesus Christ, a vital topic of every believe grounded in the faith.
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Soul Prosperity
We need to live in God’s righteousness, peace and joy on the inside all the time, not just cry out to God for it when we are in a crisis. Our soul is prospering when we are walking in step with Holy Spirit.
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Soul Prosperity
We need to live in God’s righteousness, peace and joy on the inside all the time, not just cry out to God for it when we are in a crisis. Our soul is prospering when we are walking in step with Holy Spirit.
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Equip
Why do we exist as a church? Join us as Mike shares Cornerstone's vision to be a church that Experiences new life in Christ, that Equips believers to become fully devoted disciples of Christ, and that Engages our community and our world for Christ. In Christ, Of Christ, and For Christ
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The Church (Part 4)
Adam presents the need to examine spiritual maturity closely. The church must be able to speak the truth in love and build itself up if it is ever to mature as a body.
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
How critical is it that we weed out all the evil in the world around us? So much of the political agenda of the evangelical church seems to be the opposition of evil. This is not all bad, but should it be our main agenda? Jesus seems to calm his disciples' fears about all the evil in the world by simply acknowledging that the weeds grow alongside the wheat. The prudent farmer doesn't worry about ripping out the weeds - but about growing healthy wheat. On the harvest day, the good and bad will be separated. In the meanwhile, our focus is to be on growing the good! Key Passage: Matthew 13:24-30, 47-50