Sermons About Suffering
There's Hope for a Hurting World
In this week's sermon, we make an urgent appeal to churches and individual Christ followers to rise up and extend God's message of hope to a hurting world through spiritual as well as social (justice) inroads.
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Suffering, Loving and Pleasing God (8:30)
This is part three in the End Times series on the Book of Revelation. Christ speaks to the 7 churches (and to us). Check out what He says and how it applies to each one of us today.
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Do You Want What Jesus Offers? (Exodus 17)
A History of Grumbling: - Exodus 15, Bitter Water - Exodus 16, no food-"operation manna" - Exodus 17, no water - Numbers 14, Giants in the land
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Sacred Joy: Philippians 1.12-18
As we continue in Paul's letter to the church at Philippi we see he speaks of suffering. Paul experienced various trials throughout his ministry. For Paul and the writers of Scripture suffering was not a strange thing, but normal. According to Paul suffering is a gift from God for the advancement of the gospel of Christ. Often trials impede our progress in our walk with Christ. Paul saw trials as those which brought even greater progress to the advancement of the gospel. So how do you respond to suffering? For Paul, he rejoices because through such Christ is proclaimed.
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Grumbling Against the Gospel (Exodus 16)
1.) All of the redeemed live in the wilderness....."the not yet" season of the Kingdom 2.) Suffering is part of His work in the wilderness. 3.) You don't get to choose how you will suffer. A wise, sovereign God will choose. 4.) "Grumbling" is against God and His Gospel. 5.) "Grumbling" is a sin of the tongue that always escalates. 6.) "Grumbling" is infectious. 7.) "Grumbling" is a failure of faith.
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A Vision of Jesus for the Church: Revelation 1
Revelation is an amazing book written to a church struggling with whether or not to compromise the Gospel to avoid persecution. They wanted to know if they could have Jesus and still live like everyone else. Some had already begun to compromise, some had refused to compromise and were suffering persecution, and others where stuck looking at both of them and wondering what they should do. Jesus speaks to all three groups by saying "Look at me!" In answer to their questions, Jesus shows them a magnificent picture of himself that few Christians have ever really taken the time to contemplate. It is a vision of a massive Jesus whose face shines like the sun, whose voice is like the sound of rushing waters, and out of whose mouth comes a sharp two-edged sword. This vision is meant to comfort the suffering and to rouse the compromising from their foolishness and call them all to follow Jesus. We will discuss how such a vision could possibly comfort anyone and we will address how this whole series applies to us today.
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The True Grace of God (I Peter 5 8-14) 9-27-09
Peter's closing remarks in I Peter 5 reminds us of how his letter as a whole has detailed and called its readers to live in light of the "true grace of God".
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We Study to Assist the Working of God - Part 1
Please note this is a two part sermon... Paul brought a great deal of comfort to the Christians in Thessalonica with this letter. Yet one way in which comfort was brought to the Thessalonians (their lives proved it, as did their suffering) should startle us in America. We don't suffer for being Christians here (outside of extremely isolated instances). What has the church throughout the history of the world endured? What do many endure today? We ignore the plight of our brothers and sisters in Christ to the detriment of the Kingdom.
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