Sermons About Possessions
Tenth Commandment: Simplictity
This one might be more of an issue that any! Will we think the next thing or person will be the missing ingredient to our happiness?
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No, I Mean Impassible ... Nothing's Impossible
When Jesus tells the rich young man to sell all his possessions and give it to the poor and follow me, what does this mean? Is he speaking literally? Figuratively? This sermon looks not at money but at selfless love.
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The Bailout...In Debt We Trust
With job losses and unemployment at an all time high, soaring medical costs, a record number of foreclosures, and the financial ruin and debt enslavement that often accompany a severe recession and declining economy, is there anything that can be done to restore our country and our lives? In this message, we explore the attitude we should have regarding material wealth and how to bring about the needed change to turn things around for the better!
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To Sow or Not to Sow?
The Bible contains four times the number of verses on money and materialism than verses on faith and prayer. Also, forty percent of the parables that Jesus taught in the gospels deal with money. Clearly, God is interested in how we use the resources He has given to us. During this five-week series we will discover some key principles to handling money and possessions in a way that honors God.
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Generosity (Vision Update and Sermon)
We admit it. We have an agenda: we want you to join the church. All believers in Jesus in every time and place are members of the universal church, but committing to a local church is a vital part of the spiritual life for every Christ-follower. In our teaching series, CHURCH 101, we are taking several weeks to describe the foundational commitments of church membership. Our members are those who have accepted the mission of helping others become passionate followers of Jesus through the ministry and community of this church. Over the next few weeks, we will discuss what that means as we explore practically how we can live for Jesus as a part of His church.
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Excellent Giving
The Bible contains four times the number of verses on money and materialism than verses on faith and prayer. Also, forty percent of the parables that Jesus taught in the gospels deal with money. Clearly, God is interested in how we use the resources He has given to us. During this five-week series we will discover some key principles to handling money and possessions in a way that honors God.
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Generosity (Sermon)
We admit it. We have an agenda: we want you to join the church. All believers in Jesus in every time and place are members of the universal church, but committing to a local church is a vital part of the spiritual life for every Christ-follower. In our teaching series, CHURCH 101, we are taking several weeks to describe the foundational commitments of church membership. Our members are those who have accepted the mission of helping others become passionate followers of Jesus through the ministry and community of this church. Over the next few weeks, we will discuss what that means as we explore practically how we can live for Jesus as a part of His church.
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Careful Living
The Bible contains four times the number of verses on money and materialism than verses on faith and prayer. Also, forty percent of the parables that Jesus taught in the gospels deal with money. Clearly, God is interested in how we use the resources He has given to us. During this five-week series we will discover some key principles to handling money and possessions in a way that honors God.
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In God We Trust?
The Bible contains four times the number of verses on money and materialism than verses on faith and prayer. Also, forty percent of the parables that Jesus taught in the gospels deal with money. Clearly, God is interested in how we use the resources He has given to us. During this five-week series we will discover some key principles to handling money and possessions in a way that honors God.
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House Rules Part 3
If you are even a casual student of scripture, you will find that there are just some verses and commands in the Bible that just seem...well...hard. There are just some verses that seem practically impossible to obey and some almost don't even make sense. We look at them and think, "Well God, you will just have to do that in me if you want me to do that because I don't see that happening. For example: - Luke 14:26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. o Are you kidding me? Why would I hate my parents? - Matthew 5:39 But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. o We devise elaborate explanations about why we don't to obey this one. - Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. o We hear that and think, "Yeah, but there are few people that I know I am better than." There are always good, practical theological explanations for these verses, but when it comes down to it, obeying them is just flat out hard Here is thing. When we hear those verses and we think, "God is just going to have to do that if He wants me to obey," we are actually thinking correctly. We often fall into the mistake of thinking all the other verses in the Bible are easily within our grasp. If that was the case, Jesus surely didn't need to die. I Corinthians 15 makes it clear that Jesus' death on the cross was for the payment of our sin and His resurrection was for our new life. The only reason you and I can obey with a desire to glorify God is because Jesus' enables us to now. Otherwise we would be the dead men we've always been. You know there is an old hymn that sings, "I was sinking deep in sin/far from the peaceful shore." That hymn though sweet is completely wrong. We aren't sinking deep in sin; we are dead in our sin. The hymn really should sing, "I was lying dead in sin on the bottom of the ocean floor." If we are going to obey any verse, hard or not, it is because the Spirit helps us to obey. We don't discount the hard work obedience is, but as soon as we get away from dependence on God for that obedience, we have become lazy in our walk with Christ despite the contrary. Well this week in the book of 1 John, we are going look at one of these hard, nearly impossible passages of scripture. We want to pursue it well and understand its application for us, and then we want to ask our God to help us to obey.
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