Sermons About Identity
the road to beautiful: covenant people #1
Where does our identity come from? Glenn talks about how to get our identity from our Creator, not from the world around us.
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When I Get Recognition!
When will I be happy with others? When I get recognition! But we are never satisfied. Only the gospel can make us happy with others! In the gospel we find that God values us, delights in us, and gives us glory beyond our wildest imagination. The gospel makes us so happy that we are free to humble ourselves and follow Jesus by serving others, which makes us even happier!
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Gospel Partnership: Do you serve like Jesus?
This week we look at our identity of servant. Jesus demonstrates servanthood in John 13. Because serving is an identity issue Jesus can serve in any manner, even a job that was given to the lowliest of servants because he draws his significance from his Father. Where do you find your joy and significance and worth? Come listen as Steve challenges us to evaluate where and why we are serving. If our significance rests in what Christ has done then we will serve just as He did. Whose feet are you washing?
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Identity Crisis and the Church
Pastor Lance Parrott calls us to examine who we are as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. He calls us to see our identity in Christ, as the people of God, living to bring glory to Jesus. Listen to this wonderful text from 1 Peter. Hear the Word of the Lord. And see who we are in Christ.
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Gospel Partnership: Where do you find your identity?
This week we will look at where we find out identity. As a community we want the center of what we're about, more than anything else to be the gospel. We want everything thing we do and say to be surrounded by what God has done for us in the life death and resurrection of Jesus. In Religion, my identity and self-worth are based on what I can accomplish, on how hard I work, or on how moral I am. Therefore, I look down on others who aren’t as moral or obedient as me. But in the Gospel, my identity and self-worth are based on God’s love for me in Jesus, even while I was his enemy, unable to accomplish or earn his love by my actions. Therefore, I can’t look down on someone different than me because I am no better than they are – and probably worse! This week Steve encourages us to look at what we are building our identity on. To take a step back, look at the example of the rich man from Mark and instead of following his example turn and build our identity on God. In essence give up every other way of finding a self and find it now only in Jesus.
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When the Government ________ (fill in the blank)!
I. Focus on others, it will bring happiness (Acts 16 - describes the church planted by Paul) - Look around me to see what God is doing now - Community groups are ways we can experience partnership Dietrich Bonhoeffer - "we need the Christ in others" II. Prayer makes happiness grow - Love with knowledge and discernment III. Your identity is the well to deeper happiness - Paul "servant/slave" of Christ Jesus
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Awe vs. Faith
We look at the unbelief of the people in Mark 6, and through that examine the true identity that we have in Jesus. Rik explains how faith ignites the power of God, and how we can have more faith.
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Identity
This week we continued our series: “Jesus versus Religion,” where we’ve been looking at the Book of Colossians, and seeing Jesus’ superiority over all things, including religion. The sermon this week came from Colossians 2.6-15, and explored our identity crises. The fact is, so often we don’t know who we are. We go around, wearing different masks to fit into different situations until we forget who we are underneath it all. As a result, our lives are fragmented and unstable. We don’t really feel like we belong anywhere because we don’t even know who we are. But in this passage, the Apostle Paul offers us a solution to this dillema: the stability and identity that we’re seeking are found in Jesus Christ and his gospel.
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Best
God has forgiven you, set you free from captivity to sin, and given you a new identity as His child. And He's the best at what He does.
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