Sermons About Patience
How To Have Lasting Love
Learn how to develop a love that lasts forever, like the love that God has for us. We will find four characteristics of love that will help it to last forever.
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Learning to Love - 1 Corinthians 13 (Stand Alone)
Sometimes, we need to call timeout, huddle up as a team, step back from the moment and remember why we are here. This sermon is a reminder to keep first things first. What is the first thing? Love is. They are many important things that happen in the life of a church--programs, budgets, meetings, facilities. These things are important because they enable ministry, but they are not the main thing. The struggle for a church is to keep the main thing the main thing. If we allow secondary things to distract, divide or discourage us, we will not achieve the primary thing God has called us to do. In this sermon, we will look at 1 Corinthians 13 as we more fully learn to love.
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A Heart Grown Cold: The Letter to the Church in Ephesus
Are we, as the church today, enduring the prosecution we experience and grow stronger, just as the church of Ephesus did? Or do we renounce our faith for "worldly safety"?
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The Mark of Patience
Patience - (Greek: makrothumia) makro - long in distance or duration; thumia - heat, passion, suffering, anger. makro + thumia - long suffering, slow to anger, slow to lose one's temper or passion. To have a long fuse. How long is your fuse? In Paul’s letter to the Ephesians he challenged them to live according to what they had received. He told them to “put off the old self” and to “put on the new self.” One of the marks of the new self that he told them to bear was the mark of patience. As Christ followers and as those who have received the gift of the Holy Spirit we can yield our lives to the Spirit’s calling and exhibit the mark of patience.
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Divided Loyalties
In order for us to walk humbly before God, we need to live our lives within God's boundaries; totally surrendering our lives to God. God assumes total responsibility for the life that's surrendered to him.
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God's Promises: Pregnant with Reality
God makes wonderful and certain promises to His people, but these promises are pregnant with time, hardship and contradiction. They are meant to build Gospel-based trust into our hearts rather than serve as "holy credit cards" that get us what we want when we want it. God's promises don't keep us from hard times, they get us through hard times.
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The Greater Calling
The Lord brings about unity of the Spirit in the Church by working out the the fruit of humility and patience in His yet-to-be-perfected people.
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The call to intercessory prayer for others
Jesus goes to the gentile region of Tyre and Sidon...he tries to do so quietly without being notice. Of course, the word gets out and one woman knows his reputation for healing and deliverance comes and begs Jesus to free her daughter from an evil spirit. She intercedes on her daughter's behalf. Jesus is abrupt and even rude...but this woman shows two remarkable traits of true intercessory...she is humble and persists until Jesus grants her requests. Likewise, we should follow her example and intercede for others to come to the saving knowledge of Christ and remain humble, patience, and persistent until we see God's answer...do not become discouraged. God's time is not ours but it always right.
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