Sermons About Journey
The God Who Doesn't Sleep
Confidence on the Christian journey comes from relying on God's promises: He doesn't sleep, He protects us, and He blesses us.
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Skepticism and the Search for Truth
Each of us has a particular paradigm or way of looking at the world, but what do you do when an event occurs outside your paradigm? Perhaps no other event in history has rattled more cages than the resurrection. Those who first discovered the empty tomb responded with skepticism, surprise and a search for Truth.What is your response?
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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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A Big Step Forward
Our faith journey begins with a decision and continues with daily decisions to trust and follow Jesus. The next step in our faith journey is deciding to make Jesus the center of our lives.
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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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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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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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Follow - week 1
The start of a new sermon series, looking at Luke's description of Christians as 'The Way'. What does it mean to be part of the Way? What does it mean to live the Way? In this sermon, week 1, we'll be looking at how Jesus invites us all to follow him, and why we should accept his invitation with all our hearts.
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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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A Faith that Overcomes Fear
The challenges of life have a way of bringing to the surface our fears, insecurities, concerns, anxieties, uncertainties. What if we didn’t have to live in slavery to our fears? What if our faith could overcome our fears no matter what comes our way? If that kind of faith exists at all, we will find out about it in the Scripture, so let’s continue to learn from the life of Jacob and see if we can find some help.
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Dealing with Misplaced Trusts
Let's face it, sometimes we would rather do things our way than enter into the process of realigning our desires to match God’s desires. In this sermon, we will look at the lives of four people who prefer to trust their senses, their appetites, their instincts, and their advisors to trusting God. Let's take a peek into their lives so that we may learn about our own.
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Living for Pleasure
As the Teacher in Ecclesiastes continues his quest for meaning, his describes his test of living for pleasure and concludes that it too is pointless.
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Setting A Course: The Mission and Vision of Austin Journey Church
A look at the Mission and Vision of Austin Journey Church, with insights from the approach of the apostle Paul in the Areopagus in Athens.
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Seeing Beyond the Moment
When we face important decisions, we often get fixated on momentary satisfaction or pleasure and miss out on God's best. Looking at the lives of Jacob and Esau, we see that our way often seems best at the time but rarely brings lasting satisfaction. If we are going to thrive in our spiritual journey, we must start by acknowledging that God’s way is better than our way.
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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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The Porch Light's On
"Home…" At it's very best, "home" is a place we all long for…a place that is safe…a place we are unconditionally loved…a place we can let our hair down and know that we will not offend….a state of being…secure…safe…at ease…."home". So many in our day have not experienced this kind of "home" in growing up, nor have they understood the offer of "home" that our heavenly Father extends to us. Instead of seeing a loving Father waiting at the door, they have feared an angry God. But the New Testament paints a much different picture of God – and maybe its an image you need to embrace. The image of the porch light being left on at night…the picture of a daddy worried sick as He waits for His runaway child to come home. The truth is, we are ALL runaways in our own way. Some of us have begun the journey home, others still need to turn around…but ultimately we walk the same path. Maybe it's time you headed for home. The porch light is on…the door is unlocked…the family is waiting! Key Passage: Luke 15:11-31
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The Joy of the Journey
First Christian Church is beginning a new spiritual and stewardship campaign, "The Joy of the Journey." This will take many of us on a new path, but because the Lord is my Shepherd, I can depend on Him, He will sustain me and I know I have a bright future. We should each begin praying to know how we can each be involved, to seek God's goal for us, trust in His sustaining power and anticipate God's blessings.
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Living the 3 R's
A study of the wilderness journey. What is the purpose of a wilderness journey? What does God want you to learn when all you can see is sand? What should you be praying for? What helpful requests do you make to God? If you pass the test do you graduate from the wilderness and never go back? These questions will be explored in the message this morning.
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Psalm 121
When we come to God all our problems are solved… Right? When we embark on relationship with the Almighty, one thing we can absolutely count on is that all our problems, all our “issues” all the hard parts of life get solved, smoothed out… dealt with. And should we find pain or difficulty or suffering in our lives? That’s a sure sign that God has left us, has rejected us, is in fact punishing us…
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Necessities for the journey
The divine travel agent sends us out with only bare necessities to do his work.
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The Journey of Faith
23 By faith Moses' parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict. 24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. 25 He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time. 26 He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. 27 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible. 28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel. 29 By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.
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Into the Water
This weekend we celebrate the accomplishments God has made in the past ministry year. As we respond to the missional call of God on our lives, we need to look into the future and ask ourselves: What would Kelowna look like if the rule and reign of God were made real among us? How would our lives have to change? How would the ministry focus of WPC need to change? Today, will talk about some of the dreams God is placing on our hearts for the coming months and years. Together we need to cry out - "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." Key Passage: Numbers 13 & 14
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This foreign land
We are pilgrims on a journey through life, toward our true homeland. Without faith, our lives appear to be filled with contradictions, but through the lens of faith, our true riches are found in God.
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The Path & Process of Wisdom
As we re-enter our study on practical wisdom from the book of Proverbs, its imperative that we understand that life is a journey and that our destiny is sealed not so much by the big events as by the daily decisions. Therefore, wisdom encourages us toward a set of daily disciplines that move us along the path of life.
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