Sermons About Pride
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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Pride's Enemy
Echoes is a 10-week study in the New Testament book of James. This week, Pastor Tim Osborn explores issues of pride.
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Our Worth in God's Eyes
Why do we run away form the God of love? Our youth places blinders on our eyes, our pride serves as a motivator and our desire for independence can set us on the run. The results of running away: distance in the relationship, we end up running on empty, confusion and death. To have a coming home party we must have a repentent heart then God will receive us with open arms.
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7 Marks of a Well-trained Life - ENGAGE #7
In this series, we will study Daniel 1-6. There are many parallels between the situation Daniel faced and our situation today. Like Daniel, we work and live among a great variety of gods--not only those of other formal religions, but also the gods of achievement, independence, knowledge, pleasure, and ideology. In a religiously diverse culture which is at best indifferent and at worst hostile to faith in the one true God, what role should Christ-followers play in society? Rather than isolating ourselves or rejecting our world, we want to ENGAGE our world as people who trust in a powerful God, make positive contributions to society, and bring hope to others. If you've ever wondered how Monday-Saturday were related to Sunday, this series is for you.
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Saints leading saints as saints
The people of Corinth were forgetting that they were saints by calling because of the cross of Jesus and the power of the Spirit opening their eyes to the foolish preaching of the cross. This was evident in the fact that they were dividing over men. We tend to do this too. If we are elders in the church, we deceive ourselves with our arrogance to think we are wiser than we are. We are sometimes deceived into boasting in men, especially when those men boast in themselves. But you are already rich in Jesus, by the cross and Spirit, it would be foolish to settle for boasting in man.
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Joyfully Coming Down From the Tree to Meet Christ
A lesson from the familiar passage about Zacheaus in Luke Chapter 19. Zacheaus came down from his tree to meet the Lord. Are there "trees" that we need to come down to come to Christ. Be like Zacheaus and "make haste" to come down and meet the Lord. °Is there a "tree" of Pride in your life preventing you from joyfully meeting the Lord? °Is there a "tree" of Indifference in your life that is keeping you from following the Lord? °Is there a "tree" of Unfaithfulness in your life? Unfaithfulness to church, Unfaithfulness with God's tithe, Unfaithfulness with God's Word and prayer. °Is there a "tree" of an Unforgiving spirit in your life that is inhibiting your walk with the Lord?
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Only One Love To Give
Evidence of the gospel's power in a person's life is found not only in the presence of things that were not formerly there, such as faith and hope, but also in the diminishing presence and elimination of things that don't belong. John writes in his first epistle that we are to not love the world or the things in the world (1 John 2:15-17). This message takes a look at what John meant, and why our love for God necessarily calls us to escape the idolatries that come with loving the things of this life.
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Numbering the troops
Sunday AM. Pastor Nikcy gives another needed message on dealing about pride. This time from David's folly of numbering the troops to see how big his army is.
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