Sermons About Heart
Super-Abounding Grace (Romans 5:20-21)
God provided the law to his people. His law has many functions; first, it is a gift, to guide us in a way of living that pleases him and which is actually best for us. Second, the law shows us what sin is, exposing our sin. But more than this, our sin is provoked by the law, since we desire to do whatever is forbidden. But God did not leave us in sin; he also gave us the law to more greatly display his grace. Sin is revealed by the law, but grace is revealed even more.
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Pray and Do Not Lose Heart
Last week we heard of the great and glorious day of Jesus’ return. It is a day when He will come to judge and wage war, pouring out His vengeance upon His enemies as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. It will be a day of reckoning. He will make all things wrong, right, for He is Righteous and True. He will make every imperfect thing, perfect, as the Great Perfecter of all things. He will make every unclean thing, clean and pure, as the Great Purifier. It will be messy as grapes, vessels of wrath, are tread upon by the Great Victor, Jesus. As the great theologian Johnny Cash says, "God’s Gonna Cut You Down". It will be a long awaited, glorious day for the children of God, as He will make all things new. What do we do, until this great day comes, how do we live in light of this? Jesus answers this question to His disciples in a parable connected to His foretelling of His second coming, His return, when the heavens will be opened and He comes riding on that white horse.
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A Worshipping Community
These days, there is an appetite for spirituality and a distaste for "church." Is this really what God wanted? The church was intended to be a dynamic, life-giving movement of people who experience and extend the love of God together. In fact, Jesus said that you can't be spiritual on your own, that the spiritual life is something we do together. If you catch a glimpse of God's dream for doing life together, we are convinced you'll never want anything less.
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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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That Is What He Gets
Ever have a car fly past you only to see them pulled over a mile or two down the road? How did you feel? For most of us there is something very satisfying about that. Generally, we like to see people got what they deserve. This is perhaps one of the greatest difference between ourselves and God. Our heart inclines toward judgment, his heart inclines toward mercy. Key Verses: Jonah 1-4, Luke 15, Matt 20:1-16, John 3:16, 1Tim 2:3-4, 2Pet 3:8-9, Matt 28:18-20, Matt 9:9-13
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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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Nehemiah #12 - Conclusion
This the conclusion of the 12 part series on the Book of Nehemiah. This message wraps up the series by looking back at what has been said, but using different terms.
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Getting People to Take Their Medicine
It has been said that the church is to be a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. If the church is a hospital, what kind of medicine does it offer and how can it persuade patients to take it? Just as in every area of life, Jesus is our example here. He excelled in getting people to hear and accept what God had to say to them. He led many people to complete change and healing. What was his secret weapon? Key Verses: Lk 5:27-32, Matt 28:18, Lk 7:36-39, Matt 19:16-22, Eph 2:8-12, John 16:7-14, Lk 19:1ff, 1John 4:8
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The Outstretched Arm Of Jesus
Jesus stretched out his arm and touched a leper—and with it, he gave us a glimpse into the very heart of God.
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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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Solomon: Prone to Wander (1 Kings 3:5-15)
In his youth, Solomon loved God and worshipped with extravagance. As he aged however, he began to love God’s gifts more than he loved the Giver. In this sermon, we will look at what it takes to cultivate a healthy and vital love for God.
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More Love
"According to scripture, wanting to receive and express more love is something that God will help us with. The degree to which you and I are loving people may not keep us awake at night except for one thing, that in God's economy, the single highest value by a factor of X is love. It is the primary measuring rod by which your life and my life will be judged. So how do we grow More Love?"
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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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A Learning Community
These days, there is an appetite for spirituality and a huge distaste for "church." Is this really what God wanted? The church was intended to be a dynamic, life-giving movement of people who experience and extend the love of God together. In fact, Jesus said that you can't be spiritual on your own, that the spiritual life is something we do together. If you catch a glimpse of God's dream for doing life together, we are convinced you'll never want anything less.
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Philippians 1:7-8 - Sources of Joyful Affection
Paul bases his affection on the Philippians on the confidence He has in God's work in their lives. The doctrine known as "The Perseverance of the Saints" (or "Eternal Security") is an essential orthodox belief that if adamantly rejection will destroy the Gospel of Grace and create another religion foreign to the teachings of Christ. Paul's affection was not motivated by merely earthly emotions but by Christ’s love for his people. We find in these few verses 3 sources for the affections that Paul had for the Philippians: 1) Affections in the center of his heart, 2) Affections of fellowship, and 3) Affections of Christ Himself. We must learn that our confident affections for others stem from knowing that their salvation (and ours) doesn't rest in their (or our) grip on God, but on God's grip on them (us). You will need to look at these verses and ask yourself: Is my faith a genuine saving faith in Christ - one that is authored by Him, sustained by Him, and will one day be completed by Him. Your answer to that question should convict you know how sinful it is not to have been possessed with the affection of Christ for each other as Paul was.
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Five Essentials of a Servant Heart
Most of us have heard that Jesus served others. We've heard about Jesus washing their feet, healing the sick, feeding the hungry. If we are going to follow Jesus, we need to develop a servants heart. Listen in as we explore "Five Essentials of a Servants Heart."
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Plagues and Death in Egypt
In the book of Exodus God reveals the story of Moses and the great Exodus of the Jewish people from the slavery of Pharaoh. This story is full of plagues that God uses against Pharaoh and the people of Egypt to show that the LORD is God. In this message God shows his fury against a disobedient leader and his followers. However, how can God be angry when God hardened Pharaoh's heart?
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Implications of a Clean Heart
Psalm 51 says to "Create in me a clean heart." What are the implications of that statement in the life of a believer? Join Sam as he shares a powerful message about having a clean heart. Also, you will get to hear a powerful testimony of how God was with a young family who went through a very frightening time when their daughter almost drowned. And finally, you get to hear about an amazing opportunity that God has given Cornerstone.
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Love does no wrong
If we’re in love, we do no wrong, if we do wrong, we’re not in love. Our fight is not with flesh and blood, or in other words, people. We are to fight the good fight against the devil and all his demons. We are to love people, no matter what they do to us. Love places no demands of anyone other than itself. Love takes the first step. God has given us the love necessary to love like this. Love does for others regardless of what they can do for us. We owe everyone to love them.
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2 Samuel 23:8-39 - Hail to the Cheifs
This passage is all about David's mighty men who with valor and loyalty supported David and his kingdom. We must understand that living in God's Kingdom is a community exercise. The church (the body of Christ) is an essential means of grace that God uses to sactify our hearts to keep on following the Lord. We all can learn the following principles from these men about how to keep our hearts from going astray from our Lord: 1) Give Credit to God for Victory, 2) Worship God in Difficulties, 3) Trust in God's provision, 4) Let sinful memories humble you. It is so easy for our hearts to drift away from Holiness and following the Lord Jesus. Make it your aim to guard your heart by noting the principle examples of these men who were loyal to David as you seek to live out your liife within the body of Christ for the honor of God.
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The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly Response to God's Word
Principles still hold true of the different soils of the heart when the Word of God goes out.
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Rest is an Inside Job
“RUNNING ON EMPTY” Rest is an Inside Job Scripture: Matthew 11:28-30 Isaiah 40:11; 30-31 “It does not differ with me whether I am in prayer or hearing the noise and clutter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon my knees.” Stated by Brother Lawrence in The Practice of the Presence of God over 200 years ago 28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” JESUS OFFERS THREE SOLUTIONS. 1. “Come to Me” 2. “Take My yoke upon you” 3. “Learn from Me” WHY ARE THESE SOLUTIONS SUCH A BIG DEAL? 1. Why come to Him? Because you will find rest for your soul! 2. Why take His yoke? Because it will be the best fit for you. 3. Why learn from Him? Because you will learn how to rest while working. TWO POWERFUL SYMBOLS THAT BRING HOPE FOR US CHANGE. (Isaiah 40:11; 30-31) 1. He tends His flock like a Shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads those that have young. 2. Those who wait upon the Lord will soar like eagles and never grow weary
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The Heart of Worship Pt2
When we talk about the Heart today we dont just mean that organ within us that pumps blood, we are talking about the center, the core, the main thing! So what is the heart of our worship as Christians? We will journey through the first part of the letter to the Hebrews, we will discover what the writer had to say about the heart of our worship
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The Heart of Worship Pt1
When we talk about the Heart today we don’t just mean that organ within us that pumps blood, we are talking about the center, the core, the main thing! So what is the heart of our worship as Christians? We will journey through the first part of the letter to the Hebrews, we will discover what the writer had to say about the heart of our worship
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Progressing Downward
Mark 7:14-23 Jesus teaches on the heart, and the reality of internal defilement
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Facade
A.W. Tozer, in his book, The Pursuit of God shared this prayer: "Lord, I would trust You completely; I would be altogether Yours; I would exalt You above all. I desire that I may feel no sense of possessing anything outside of You. I want constantly to be aware of Your overshadowing Presence and to hear Your speaking Voice. I long to live in restful sincerity of heart. I want to live so fully in the Spirit that all my thought may be as sweet incense ascending to You and every act of my life may be an act of worship. Therefore I pray in the words of Your great servant of old, ‘I beseech You so for to cleanse the intent of mine heart with the unspeakable gift of Your grace, that I may perfectly love You and worthily praise You.’ And all this I confi dently believe You will grant me through the merits of Jesus Christ Your Son. Amen." Key Passage: Matthew 5:33-37
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The Decalogue: Two Tablets for Every Day
The Ten Commandments are a foundation for any civil society. They require humility toward God and our fellow man. They teach restraint, love, and unselfish service. The first and the tenth are troublesome. How are you doing on having no other gods? How about not coveting? If we read them as Jesus taught us to read them, these commandments are essentially about attitudes and dispositions of the heart.
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Show Me The Love
In Matthew chapter 5 Jesus touches upon a number of issues which speak to all of society today. Whether the issue be murder, adultery, divorce, taking oaths, revenge, or loving your enemies Jesus is wanting us to learn one truth: that it is the spirit of the law and not the law itself that matters most. Key Passage: Matthew 5.21-30
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Kingdom Cleanliness (AM)
Adam preaches Matt. 5:8. Focused on internal heart reality, this Beatitude announces blessing for those whose entire person is devoted to spiritual cleanliness. Kingdom citizens, clean from the inside out, will see God personally for all eternity.
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Lists, Loopholes, Legalities... Love
"Just give me the list - and I'll do it!" That phrase may be the exasperated cry of a person desperately trying to please another, and in far too many cases, it is how we have approached our relationship to God. We have reduced our "friendship with God" down to a sterile formula of "do's and don'ts" and as long as we have checked off all the items on the list, we feel fairly secure. But Jesus blows this kind of "list" Christianity out of the water, when He shreds the Pharisees for their attention to minute details of the law, yet have hearts that are cold and distant. What if Jesus was more concerned with your heart attitude than with your adherance to a list of rules? Novel thought? Key Passage: Matthew 5:20
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What I Treasure?
Where your treasure is, you find your heart. It seems that our spiritual reality is connected to what we treasure? This message invites everyone to be generous.
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The Law and the Law of Love
This week, Pastor Kevin examined three questions on life and faith. How good is good enough? How good is Jesus? How then should we live?
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Being About the Heart of Jesus
The final prayer of Jesus in John 17 is a window into the heart of God's Son. It should therefore be the very thing which drives the church forward as God answers that prayer anew in every generation.
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Is Your Christianity Internal or External?
Are you a man like King Saul who, although, he looked good on the outside, on the inside his heart was far from God? Or are you like King David who even though he sinned,he was a man after God's own heart.
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Are You Weeping Over Garfield?
It is not enough to claim your city for Jesus.You must weep for it. You must meet people the way Jesus met people.
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Hungering for Him
As you begin to study the Word of God to learn and grow, you come to realize that there are plenty of terms in the Bible which our modern English words simply fall short in doing justice to the meaning, or it has morphed into something which has a very different meaning than it did in Scripture. One of the words that I've come to appreciate in a far deeper way than ever before is the word "heart" in the Bible.
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Who Calls the Shots?
To start off, Ritchie asks the question, 'How can you say you worship God when you are seeing someone else?' Worship is more than what takes place in a service such as singing, preaching or prayer. According to the apostle Paul, worship is submitting every faculty of your being to God because of His grace and mercy that He's given you. He wants to have complete control over your life. The heart of worship is in His sacrifice on the cross for your redemption.
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Parables: What about the Heart?
The parable of the sower and it's meaning for the heart of the believer and the fruit we bear.
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A New and Living Way
So many times we get consumed with the external realities of appearances, morality, religion and wearing masks for people all around us. Yet what is the reality of the human heart? The picture that Jesus paints for us is not pretty as he tells us all matter of sin and wickedness flows out from our hearts. Though his picture of humanity is one of depravity, he does not leave us there. He knows that a mere coat of paint to cover our brokenness will crack and crumble in life. No, instead of a simple pious makeover, he reminds us that the problem we have is not simply our poor religious performances. In order to transform us into new people and place us on a path of life, it requires radical heart surgery. It is what comes out of a man that makes him unclean, and it is a renewal and recreation of our very selves which we most desperately need. Is this possible? Seeing Jesus in Mark 7 tell us YES! But we must come to God needy and hopeful – in faith – for the work only he can do.
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Have It Your Way?
We live in a Burger King world. We are used to having it our way. Unfortunately, this has spilled over into our faith life. Many have been tempted to custom build their own unique faith and values. We are not the first to have tried this. Israel tried it many times throughout their history. It never worked. It won't work for us either. Key Verses: Jer 2:10-17, John 14:6, Phlp 2:21, 4:12-17, 1Thes 4:1-8, Acts 17:16, Acts 20:17-24
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Heavenly Scout
Learn what God is looking for here on earth. Are you the one with a heart that is right toward God? Listen to learn more!
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The Heart of Worship
The last positive command given in the Bible is "Worship God". In John 4, we find the only time in the Bible where it tells us that God seeks something from us. God seeks for us to Worship Him. In this conversation between Jesus and the woman at the well, we find three life changing truths about worship.
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The Rewards of the Joy of the Journey
We have to decide what we're going to give to God. This decision is a heart issue, based on our relationship with Jesus Christ. Will we give reluctantly or with a glad heart? Through grace, God has already given to us all we need.
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