Sermons About Worship
Standing Out - ENGAGE #4
In this series, we will study Daniel 1-6. There are many parallels between the situation Daniel faced and our situation today. Like Daniel, we work and live among a great variety of gods--not only those of other formal religions, but also the gods of achievement, independence, knowledge, pleasure, and ideology. In a religiously diverse culture which is at best indifferent and at worst hostile to faith in the one true God, what role should Christ-followers play in society? Rather than isolating ourselves or rejecting our world, we want to ENGAGE our world as people who trust in a powerful God, make positive contributions to society, and bring hope to others. If you've ever wondered how Monday-Saturday were related to Sunday, this series is for you.
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Worship - Everybody's Doing It
"Worship is our response, both private and corporate, to God, for who He is and what He has done, expressed in and by the things that we say and the way that we live." Louie Giglio Tonight we begin a new series on the topic of worship, and throughout this series we'll be unpacking this definition. In this message we begin with the word "our", which may seem like an odd place to begin, but the truth is that it's a foundational word. Why? Because everyone worships. As we'll see in this message, it just depends on who or what we're worshiping.
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The Exchange
Rather than a polemic against particular social/moral issues, nor a permission for absolute self-determination, the Gospel starkly demonstrates the depths to which our identity as the Image of God is corrupted and the salvation and transformation that is offered in Jesus Christ.
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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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Reach
There are a host of people who stay home on Sunday mornings, not because they're any less deserving of God's grace, not because God loves them any less, but because they are waiting to see if what the church gathers to do during morning services will actually make a difference in the way the y live their lives.
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Exchanging the Glory (Romans 1:18-25)
Idolatry is exchanging the glory of God for something much less valuable.
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Don Moen Podcast / 10-05-09
Cecil visits with Don Moen, writer, executive producer, artist and gets into the back-story of Don's music and spiritual journey. Don is transparent about his personal feelings about his calling and work for the Lord.
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Praying Twice
From time to time, when it’s a slow news day, one of the TV stations may interview people trying to get tickets for some popular concert at the Greensboro coliseum. Not long ago, with people camping out for several nights to get good seats for some concert, a woman who was being interviewed burbled that she was glad to spend two nights on the ground to be first in line for tickets. It made me wonder: has anyone ever camped out on a Friday night … to be sure to get good seats at church on a Sunday morning? Why?.......
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