Sermons About Priorities
Glorifying God in the Workplace
A practical look at how work provides an important context for the Christian’s witness. Christians should do their work as unto the Lord.
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Priorities
Sometimes we get a burst of passion, emotion or momentum about God and wanting to know him and build the things he wants us to build into our lives and communities but we run into difficulty and we fail to persevere. Like a slow leak in a tire, there is no explosive crisis, just a steady deflation until eventually we're running on flat tires spiritually. What happens next is predictable. The purposes of God are set aside. We begin to live for our own priorities and purposes. Our focus becomes our house, our life, our comfort, our success. God remains part of our life but not the heart of our life. We don't make a decision we just drift into a way of life that is mostly about us. Because we never really made a decision we don't think that much about it. So someone like Haggai has to come along and tell us to think.
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Putting Prayer in Its Proper Place
Prayer is the lifeline of every believer. It is the means by which one has fellowship with God. If prayer does not have the place of highest priority you will never experience the most vibrant and personal encounters with God. More often than not God responds with marvelous blessing not because of our prayer list but through those times which we are caught up in worship through our prayers.
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The One Thing
Many things in life compete for our time and attention. Sometimes it's hard to know just how to distribute our time and where to channel our energy and effort. The Bible gives us an incredible challenge as well as a big picture read on "The One Thing" above everything else that is worthy of our greatest and best endeavors!
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Undistracted Devotion
Luke 10:38-42 An intimate relationship with Jesus Christ is of the utmost importance to every believer, yet our devotion to Him is all too often less than His priority deserves. Daily our tendency is to succumb to lesser priorities and a false sense of priority that robs us of a full sense of devotion to what matters most in life. In Luke 10:38-42, we see that the story of Mary and Martha is really a story of two different prioities, rather than a story about two sisters. One priority was work, as demonstrated by Martha; the other was a priority of worship, which was demonstrated by Mary. Both priorities are important, but clearly, one is more important than the other. The story of these two sisters teaches us that Martha was distracted from the best thing by all the good things she was doing to serve Christ and His apostles. She was so busy serving Christ that she didn't have any time to spend with Him! Time spent with Jesus Christ should be the most important thing we do every day! Is your relationship with Christ defined by your service to Him or to your time spent with Him?
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Titus 3:12-15 (PM)
As Paul concludes his pastoral letter to Titus, his final inspired words point us to the planning, partnership, and priorities necessary for all healthy ministry.
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Redeeming the Time Pt. One
In contrast with those who give their lives to the futile and empty passions of this world (vs. 3-14), God’s Word calls Christians to live wisely, redeeming the time God has allotted to us. Join us for part one of a practical and biblical look at how we grow in the effective and fruitful use of the time we have on earth.
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