Sermons About Sovereignty
A Reformed-Charismatic Approach to Suffering
Suffering is an inescapable part of life in a fallen world. If we are not suffering presently, we will certainly encounter it at some point. We must prepare our hearts and minds to approach suffering with faith in God. Three anchors serve to help us hold firm in times of suffering. First, we know that God is sovereign over all things, even our suffering. Second, we know that God uses our suffering, for his own glory but also for our own good, to produce the peaceful fruit of righteousness in us. Finally, we know that God answers prayer, and we do not simply pray to endure our suffering, but we persistently appeal to him in faith to deliver us from it. God is near to us in our suffering, and desires that we would turn to him as our only refuge in suffering.
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God Makes (#2 of 2)
God Controls - Providence & Sovereignty Is God completely in control of all things? And if he is, how can our actions have real meaning, and how can we really be blamed for anything? Providence means that God is continually involved with everything he created, maintaining creation and at the same time fulfilling his purposes. We will consider how this truth should affect our lives on a daily basis.
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A Reformed-Charismatic Approach to Prayer
Prayer is communion with God, and God desires that we approach him as confident seekers when we pray. We are to be confident in God's presence because we come in the name of Jesus Christ, our mediator and advocate. We are confident to make requests of him because we are not simply allowed but <i>welcomed</i> to make requests; we should pray with the expectation that God's spirit will move and intervene. And we are to pray with confidence in God's sovereignty, knowing that not only is he in complete control of all things, but he is good and wise and loving.
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Expecting God in the Midst of Hardship
God uses trials and hardships in our lives to produce good blessings that could not come otherwise. Knowing that God is sovereign and ordains the trials in our lives for our good gives us a foundation of trust and joy to walk through trials expecting God to use them to make us more like Christ.
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Holy is the Reigning LORD
God's holiness and his sovereignty are intertwined by the writer of Psalm 99. God's sovereignty is proclaimed, explained and displayed by the psalmist all centered around the holy, holy, holy sovereign LORD.
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What is Good for Man
The closing verses of Ecclesiastes 6 provide the reader with a great opportunity to consider not only what is to come in the book, but also what the first half of the book have taught about our search for meaning and God's answers.
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Grace in Disguise
This week Pastor Kevin taught us how God sends the storms and trials of life as a means of His grace, even though at times they can be well disguised.
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God is Sovereign
God is great and God is good! He sees through the narrow lens - He hates sin and hurts with and for us, but at the same time, He sees through the wide lens of all time. He is all about His own ultimate glory and His own purposes. What we can see is the broken, discolored pieces of our lives. We need to trust in the sovereignty of God, that He will work the pieces into a God-glorifying work of art. A beautiful mosaic.
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