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God's Purpose in Your Pain
There is no tougher dilemma in the Christian life than the problem of pain. It could be the pain of a broken relationship, the pain of rejection, the pain of insults. Or it could just be plain old physical pain. Nothing tests the faith like pain...
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Help Me, I'm Angry
Everybody it seems, is, angry these days. You turn on the cable news shows and instead of getting your fix of news, you get loud opinions, angry shouting, and harsh words. You drive down the road and instead of peacefully enjoying the scenery, you’re subjected to honking, flipping, cutting off. Some go home and instead of finding their castle to be a place of refuge, it’s a place of anger, shouting, threats. One thing that may surprise you is that the Bible doesn’t call anger a sin. In fact, anger is a natural, normal, God-given human emotion. It is uncontrolled anger that is a sin.
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Losing Someone You Love
...I have talked to parents who have lost their children and they say there is no greater grief, because you’re not supposed to bury your children. They are supposed to bury you.
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Put Worry in the Rearview Mirror
Our typical approach to worry is this: 1) Either we worry a lot and tell a lot of people that this is our one issue. People tell us to stop worrying, but we try hard to stop worrying, but we end up worrying about worrying. 2) Or we have the “don’t worry be happy” mentality and we go the other extreme. We don’t act responsibly. We aren’t sensitive to sin. And we kind of live the laissez faire lifestyle.
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Flexibility is Faith
Flexibility is one of the most important attributes of faith.---Well, tonight we’re talking about one of the most important, but often overlooked attributes of the Christian faith. You don’t hear a lot of sermons on it. You don’t hear people speak of it as a great Christian virtue. But flexibility—the ability to adjust your life and your plans—to people and circumstances—is an important trait. But it’s also the most difficult to cultivate, because it involves giving up a lot of ourselves and serving others.
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The Monster Inside - Saying No To Yourself
Let me read a letter from a prisoner...Can you guess who wrote it? Would you believe these are the words of perhaps the greatest Christian ever to live? The words of the Apostle Paul?
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Why Bitterness Bites and Forgiveness is Sweet
Tonight, we’re going to talk about forgiveness. Perhaps nothing God asks us to do is harder than forgiving that person who has wronged us deeply. And we’re not going to talk about little silly flaws, like the guy in traffic who cuts you off or the McDonalds server who is rude. Those are little slights that pass in a fleeting moment. No, tonight we’re going to talk about those deep hurts. Those painful blows we take from people we least expect, from people we love and cherish and trust.
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God is Not a Magic Pill
You hear a great sermon on a very tough area of your life, something you struggle with such as forgiveness or finances or raising children or finding joy in trials. You leave church all inspired to change or do better. But then you go home and reality sets in. Life ends up being much harder than it should be. And you begin to wonder to yourself. I’m a Christian, but what am I having so much trouble?
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