Prayer is eternal and the Our Father prayer that Jesus taught us to pray is a spiritual transaction and private conversation with God, our Father. Prayer cements your temporal life into reality to make earth more like heaven. Jesus says that when we pray we get rewarded, but that doesn’t mean we should pray to get a reward. We should pray to build relationship with our Father.
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Easter Sunday. Looking for Life. Luke 24:1-12.
Easter Sunday. Looking for Life. Luke 24:1-12. The Bible is filled with some of the greatest questions ever asked. One of the most important happened on the day of Jesus’ Resurrection – Why do you look for the living among the dead? Life is the premier value of Christ following and the foundation for all other of its values. Where are you looking for life? It is God’s passion to bring life to the dead areas of your existence. Jesus is rarely found where you look for Him.
The Values Living Workshop: Living Beyond Your Goals
In an age of living for the next mountaintop, what would it look like if we put down the goals and began living for our values. Perhaps value living will lead us to exceeding any goal we might ever have the courage to set.
The Giant Series: Looking For Donkeys
Israel was looking for a king and found their man. Unfortunately it was not God’s man. Nonetheless, God’s grace blessed Israel despite their decision. Also in this talk, we look at how God cares for us while we might feel we are wasting our time in life “looking for donkeys”.
The Giant Series: Israel hits Rock Bottom (part 2)
Israel hits Rock Bottom – Facing The Giant of Obedience – 1 Samuel 4:1-11
In this second half of the sermon, we explore what happens when Israel trusted more in God’s stuff than his presence. Find out what happens to Israel, and what this means for you in your life.
The Giant Series: Hannah Faces The Giant Of Identity
We all have giants. We will either live on the run or face these boisterous foes. As we christen the Giant Series, we begin the book of Samuel by looking at a woman who eventually had had enough and stood up to face her giant. Let’s go, it’s time to hunt some giants!
Christ-Following in a Secular World
The story of Esther shows a woman living during an historical apex and tasked with the proposition of risking it all to save a people. Many would agree that the age we live in is also a historical crossroads. Secular Humanism is locking horns with a faith-based worldview. So how do we live a life of love in a new world order while keeping a deep dependence on an ancient and eternal truth?
Is He Risen?
In this message I look at faith and ask the question, “Is it easier to believe that Jesus rose from the dead or that there is a God who actually loves you.” Jesus early followers believed both and it was that belief that launched a worldwide movement that still stands strong today.
Jesus Is A Unicorn: Matthew 10:1-15
Seeing as I can’t really explain the content of this message title, I’m just gonna have to let you decide if you want to know why Jesus is the ultimate unicorn and how he wants you to be one too. The message hits on living as a sent people to a broken world and the spiritual gifts that relate to evangelism.
Are you sound? Finding personal grounding.
“Are you sound?” is a question about personal wellness of mind, body and spirit. Peter brings soundness to a man while changing the culture around him. If you need more stability in life then this is a message for you.
