Sermons About Perspective
A Healthy Fear
Far from being an Old Testament relic, the fear of God is an essential part of a disciple's life, since it helps us guard our steps as we come to God in worship.
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Walk in Grace
The Apostle Paul was aware that his days were numbered and with that came an even sharper focus of what was important in this life. In this wrap up of his second letter to Timothy, this great man of God leaves his final words. The pages are filled with exhortations to remain strong and to endure hardship, preach the gospel and press on.
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Calling Plan
This morning we begin our three-part series on prayer, focusing in on why it is sometimes we can't hear God or why it seems He doesn't hear us. One reason could be that we don't know, or want to know, His perspective on things.
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Does God Answer Prayer?
Does God hear and answer our prayers? Yes, but sometimes we question Him when things don't seem to be going our way. We should remember that God often answers our prayers not by giving us what we want, but by giving us what we need.
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To See What Will Be After
While the Teacher in Ecclesiastes lamented the animal-like behavior of humanity and could not see beyond the veil of death, the cross of Christ describes how Jesus died for animals like us and can raise us with Him through faith.
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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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Changing Your Perspective
How do you deal with the tough times in your life? Do you withdraw from others and focus on your problem, or do you focus on Christ who can help you through your struggles? Join us as we look at 1 Peter 4 and share about how to change our perspective on suffering.
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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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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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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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Luke 18:1-8 - The Right Kind of Faith
For a church to become a biblical community and make biblical disciples, the members need to cultivate an eternal prepsective and a right view of God's gracious actions. In this passage Jesus exhorts his disciples to endure, after rebuking and warning the pharisees about his second coming at the end of chapter 17. This explicitly sets the context of the passage on the second coming of Christ (not a secret rapture). The basic questions that is being asked is "Will God Find faith on earth when he comes again? Will the warnings of Jesus to remember Lot's wife, to keep the heart fixed on Christ, and to not love the world secure the faith of the disiciples? Will they endure to the end?" How can we endure to the end and don't become like Lot's wife - who was too much in love with this world to go all the way with Christ? Jesus tells His disciples not to loose heart but keep praying because God is ready to answer. Our problem with praying is that good things in life and normal beneficial activities in life can make us just as insensitive to the reality of God as gross things in life. Our heart can grow cold to Christ easily. The point of the passage is not to say that Jesus is an unjust judge, but to show his disciples the willingness of God to vindicate His elect when they pray. If an unjust judge will grant a persistant widow her request how much more will God (who is never unjust) be willing to vindiate his elect!
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Grander Vision Living
What is Grander Vision Living? It’s allowing other pursuits to fall away in order to focus on the priority that is nearest to the heart of God: people. When you choose to pursue the Grander Vision, you will be partnering with God in the most magnificent mission imaginable: finding what’s lost, restoring what’s broken, and reclaiming what’s his.
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I Want to Give Thanks
Perspective causes us to see things in different ways, but no matter what happens in our life, we can be thankful for several reasons: God's character, God's creation, God's salvation and God's blessings.
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On the Nature of Gratitude
Gratitude is underrated in our culture. Many are conditioned to appreciate and strive for accomplishments achieved by their own hand. Yet, gratitude allows us to see the truth about our ultimate dependence on God and each other and is, therefore, one way of keeping everything in our lives in proper perspective.
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Caught In The Act
As christians we can be so hard on ourselves. We place heavier burdens on us that God hasn't called us to carry. Cedric takes John 8:1, the story of the adulterous woman, and he paints a picture for us of how we are forgiven by Christ and how Christ looks at us. As you listen to this, let it change your perspective on how Christ sees you even when you're at your worst.
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Called to Worship, But All I See is Sand
Living Life in God's Perspective We often hear the statement; "Everything rises and falls on leadership." While this statement has merit and relevance, that really did not hold true for the Children of Israel. They had the best leader (Duet. 34:10) yet experienced significant difficulties in their walk with God. Perhaps we should also conclude that "Everything rises and falls on what you worship." Worship is not an event; rather an issue of value, prominence, and thought.
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Chasing a Mirage
Chasing a Mirage Living life in God's Perspective - Are we seeing things that God is not seeing. - The ultimate perspective of God is that all would come to the knowledge of Him. - The power and relevancy of the gospel breaks down when I use it for personal gain. - My perspective of God comes out of my enounters with Him. - Gods perspective impacts our life. - We must listen to God in our spirit. - Be careful what you base your decisions on.
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Alternate Outlook
When facing Goliath, David's unique perspective allows him to focus on the bigness of God instead of the stature of the giant before him. Compared to God's might, Goliath is puny and weak. So when we question how we could possibly do anything to remedy the problems of the world, we need only to realize that our God is plenty big and plenty strong to defeat the giants we confront.
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Getting Free From Me
The last message from the series "Freedom" This week we focus on that part of ourselves that denies us the freedom we crave. The "me" in all of us.
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