Sermons About Pressure
Look Up and Cry Out
As our Great High Priest, Jesus sympathizes with us in our times of need AND provides mercy and grace when we draw near to him. This is an updated version of an earlier sermon, hopefully improved.
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Freedom from Pressure
We are probably more like Jason Lee's title character in the sitcom "My Name is Earl" than we would like to admit. Much like Earl spends each episode of the show trying to do enough good to make up for all of his mistakes, part of each of us believes that everything is riding on our virtuous behavior: our good fortune, our future, our status with other people, our standing before God. We believe that when we do good, good will return to us and when we do bad, bad will return to us. This makes for a high-pressure life. And the pressure does not let up. We try our best to be good, then when we fail we feel guilty, then we try even harder to be good in order to make up for our guilt. The cycle is a vicious one, and many of us make ourselves slaves to it. Our culture makes it very easy for us to become slaves to the pressure to perform. Is there freedom from this pressure? Listen in as we read more of Paul's letter to the Galatians and discover that the problem of pressure is not a new one.
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Managing the Pace of Life
This section of scripture begins with a short blunt expression, "now listen" to grab our attention. There may be no area in our lives that God has greater interest in, than in how we manage the pace of our lives.
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