Sermons About Matt-payne
Integration
Integration Big Idea: We need to hear from God every day and not just when we are in church. There is a disconnect between church and home. We still see church as the primary spiritual developer of the family. Yet, God created the family as the place of spiritual development. The challenge is that so many kids are growing up without any kind of spiritual foundation at home. Its not part of lives. The role of the church is to help equip families. We need to admit we need help and we need to seek out the help we need. The Solution to what works is leveraging the hours we have with our children to the fullest potential. http://read.ly/e/gt
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Lies
Lies - November 15th We are all held hostage to lies. The big lie that most of us are held hostage to that is the collective sum of all lies is “God can’t change me.” We get caught up in the horrible cycle of promise, failure, and guilt that leads us to believe that nothing will ever change. We tell ourselves “this is just the way I am.” We buy the lie and believe that if God was going to change me, he would have done it already. But God sees us differently. When we believe the lie that we can never change it keep us hostage and prevents us from experiencing the good God has prepared for us. http://read.ly/e/d1
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Addiction
Addictions can come in many forms, drugs, alcohol, porn, money, credit card debt, spending, food, tv watching, over eating, control, coffee, smoking, caffeine, material things, technology, gossip, approval seeking, and more. We all have choices we can make: Tempting you with one more charge on the credit card. Tempting you with one more bite. Tempting you with one more text message. “I can just text her one more time. It’s going to be okay,” and that one more thing is going to lead to your addiction. Addictions replace God in our lives because they become our gods. Through God’s power, you can overcome the addictions in your life.
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Bitterness
Many of us are hostage to bitterness. Bitterness is like a poisonous root. It grows and can affect all those around you. When we don’t handle betrayal and hurt scripturally we absorb that pain, like a root absorbs the water.. We store that pain and it grows. Bitterness produces a poisonous fruit. Out of the bitterness and hatred we store, our lives start to reflect hatred, anger and rage. Forgiveness of others the way God forgives us is the key to letting go of bitterness.
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Worry
It is hard not to worry, there are so many things to worry about – job, family, economy, etc. We all worry and it holds us hostage because it takes away our focus on God and it makes us not trust God. We like worry, and when there is nothing to worry about we worry about what might happen. Worry is the opposite of faith. It is the sin of distrusting the promises and the power of God. Worry does not come from God. When we trust God with the worry in our lives we are acknowledging that He is all-powerful.
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Never Ending Story
Never-ending Story The final chapter of the Story is when time as we know it comes to an end at the Second Coming of Jesus. Time will end when Jesus comes again and The Judgment is the point in the story where a person’s story is never ending with Christ or without Him.
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Church
Church The church is not an institution or organization. It is the central character right now in the ongoing Story of Everything. I become part of the story as I take my place as a celebrating, connecting, contributing member of the body known as the church.
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Holy Spirit
Spirit The Holy Spirit is God Himself taking up residence within us to empower us. He is Christ in us, the One who we listen to and follow and rely on daily as we follow His leadings and rely on His power
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Sin
Sin Sin is what went wrong with The Story of Everything. Sin is what is wrong with the world, including us. But God is at work to save the world He made from sin, which is at heart a wrecked relationship with Him that leads to all the other wrecks in our lives and in our world.
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God
God Story of Everything God is relational to His very core; God is love, created the world and each person out of love to love and be loved, and His deep desire is to have a personal relationship with each of us
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