Sermons About Surrender
Obedience
We recognize Jesus as our teacher and authority, and wrestle with how to surrender to the way of love in every detail of our lives. We submit ourselves to one another in love and strive to keep our vows to God and our commitments to one another.
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Togetherness
Believers are drawn together as a community by Jesus. Having that sense of community requires commitment and a Godly lifestyle. When people are drawn to Jesus He makes a life change. To see that transformation we need to invite God to change us and surrender to Him.
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Jacob: Wrestling With God (Genesis 32:24-30)
There is a little bit a Jacob in all of us. We all on same level try to take control of our own lives and are tempted to make God a means to our own end. In this sermon we will be challenged to let God wrestle control from us.
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Take Up Your Cross and Live
The cross is a symbol of suffering and death. And when Jesus asked His disciples to take up their crosses in Matthew 16:24, thoughts of difficulty, danger, and even death might have entered their minds having witnessed the Roman practice of crucifixion. In the context of this passage, the cross is clearly referring to Jesus’ own proclamation of His impending suffering and death—His main mission that the disciples had not yet realized at the time. Don’t think one moment that Jesus is asking you to die the death that He already ‘died’ for you. Instead, He asks you to deny yourself or give total control of your life over to Him. To take up your own cross is to actually live—in a different way—a life of willing obedience and surrender to His lordship.
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Surrender
The New Year represents a time we can look back over the previous year and re-focus on the New Year.
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Unwrapping the Mystery of the Manger
Pastor Larry unwraps the mystery of God becoming man by showing us how Jesus emptied Himself to become just like us and why Jesus humbled himself to die for all of us.
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Music: I Surrender All
'I Surrender All' as played by The Journey Band at the Hanley Road Campus in 2004. Lyrics: Judson W. VanDeVenter. Arrangement: Josh Dix
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2 Samuel 11 - Flesh, Blood, and Fidelity
This is the famous narrative of David adultery with Bathsheba and murder of Uriah her husband. In the preceding 2 chapters David had delt with those inside Israel (Mephibosheth) and those outside Israel (Hanan) with covenant Kindness and loyalty. One would see David's leadership as one where fidelity was the driving value of his kingdom administration if it were not for Chapter 11. In this chapter David show his divided loyalties between his own desires and his loyalty to God. Fidelity to God in David's life only went so far it seems. You can learn much about your fidelity to Christ from understanding where you compartmentalize your life to keep Christ's Lordship from intruding too closely. We also see ways of growing in our fidelity to Christ's Lordship including 1) Don't slack off prusing God through his Word, 2) Don't prusue earthly success to control circumstances, 3) Don't prusue safety in life apart from following Christ, and 4) Don't think you will grow without a heart that is absolutely surrendered to Christ's Lordship. This narrative should teach all believers that they can fall into sin just as easily as David did if we don't prusue fidelity with God in all things regardless of the cost. Listening to this sermon will help you see the importance of fidelity as you follow Christ as His disciple.
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Do You Not Yet Understand?
As the first half of Mark's Gospel comes to a close, Mark gives us an opportunity to evaluate our relationship to Jesus. In this final scene, we see Jesus once again act with compassion on the crowd, once again battle with the Pharisees, and once again challenge his disciples. As we evaluate the reasons that Jesus deals differently with each group, we will get an honest glimpse into our own heart-level relationship with Jesus.
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Downloading God In Your Life
Since the Holy Spirit is God, the Fruit of the Spirit is actually characteristics of God that people can develop in their lives. Like downloading programs to your computer from the internet, I want to help you learn how you can have more of God's qualities in your life. In this message, we'll look at the background of the Fruit of the Spirit, as taught in the Bible, so we can understand what it means.
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As You Wish
How do we get to the point we can tell God as You wish? We have to nurture our relationship with Jesus, listen carefully so we don't miss the instructions and stop making excuses and put the plan into action. It also requires us to allow God to do His part, to let God see we are serious, and to rejoice in the provisions of God.
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Obedience is better than sacrifice
God has required obedience above sacrifice. When we walk in this obedience there is no limit to what God can do through us. This message is filled with real life accounts of miraculous results of living in obedience. And remember to email the preacher through: craigireland@inbox.com
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Close Encounters 4- The puppet strings of darkness.
Do you own and manage wealth or does it own and manage you? The rich young ruler came face to face with the truth about his own life and we are honest with ourselves, his issues are much like our own.
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