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June 29, 2008 |
Desperate (Increase Series)
Some spiritual disciplines are for training and others are for
treating an injury or sickness. Psalm 42 is about treating a
sickness. The sickness the Psalmist is experiencing is that he is
feeling spiritually stale, flat or out of touch with God. He is
experiencing spiritual dryness & deadness. He is desperate for
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June 22, 2008 |
Hearing God's Voice (Increase Series)
How would you answer the question: How do you know there
really is a God? How would you respond to someone’s request to
see God in person right here and right now? What about if and how
God speaks? |
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June 15, 2008 |
Practicing His Presence (Increase Series)
Several hundred years ago an obscure French monk (known as
Brother Lawrence) wrote a small book that has become a Christian
classic. It is called “Practicing the Presence of God”. It is a
manual, of sorts, for anyone who wants to learn how to walk
continually in the presence of God or as Brother Lawrence puts it
to have a “continuing conversation with God.” The focus of Psalm
16 is the very same objective. |
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June 8, 2008 |
Praying My Fears (Increase Series)
Beliefs do not automatically produce changed character.
Beliefs must be turned into changed character through spiritual
disciplines. |
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June 1, 2008 |
Meditation (Increase Series)
There is a major difference between trying to do something and
training to do something. Spiritual growth (life change) doesn’t
happen by trying hard, but by training wisely. |
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May 18, 2008 |
Gentleness/Self Control (Beyond Normal Series)
Continuing in Galatians 5:22-23, this message examines the
fruit of gentleness and self control - what is it, what is its
opposite and counterfeit and finally how to increase these
virtues. |
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May 11, 2008 |
Goodness/Faithfulness (Beyond Normal Series)
Looking at Galatians 5:22-23, this message examines the fruit
of goodness and faithfulness. Living a life of goodness and
faithfulness is the result of living a truth centered life. To
live a truth centered life is to live a life in fellowship with
Jesus Christ, who is the truth. |
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May 4, 2008 |
Patience/Kindness (Beyond Normal Series)
Looking at Galatians 5:22-23, this message examines the fruit
of patience and kindness. You can’t be kind without patience and
you’re not truly patient unless you’re kind. |
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April 13, 2008 |
Peace (Beyond Normal Series)
Looking at Galatians 5:22-23, this message examines the fruit
of peace. We live in very unstable times! To navigate a highly
unstable environment you need a strong stabilizer within. The
greater the turbulence the greater is your
eed for a strong internal stabilizer. This is where peace plays a crucial
role. |
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April 6, 2008 |
Joy (Beyond Normal Series)
Looking at Galatians 5:22-23, this message examines the fruit
of joy - what it is, what its opposite is and even its
counterfeit and how to cultivate joy in our lives. |
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March 30, 2008 |
Love (Beyond Normal Series)
Looking at Galatians 5:22-23, this message examines the fruit
of love - what it is, what its opposite is and how to develop
this most important of fruits of the Holy Spirit. |
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March 23, 2008 |
Resurrection (Beyond Normal Series)
Today is Resurrection Sunday. This is the day that billions of
Christians around the world celebrate the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead. What is the Christian doctrine of the
Resurrection of Jesus Christ? It is not just a historical fact to
believe but also a daily reality to experience. |
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March 16, 2008 |
Repentance (What Lies Beneath Series)
No matter how bad I mess up my life it can be repaired! The changes you seek, need, want are yours through repentance. The Gospel is an untapped power in your life unless released through
repentance. Psalm 51 is a Psalm of repentance. |
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March 9, 2008 |
Idolatry (What Lies Beneath Series)
What’s wrong with the human race? Why are we so messed up? Our Problem is sin! Sin is giving my heart to anyone or anything more than God, which is idolatry. |
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March 2, 2008 |
Pride (What Lies Beneath Series)
What’s wrong with the human race? Why are we so messed up? World’s answer: Man is basically good and his problem is biology, or sociology, or psychology (Humanism). God’s answer: Spiritual –
our problem is sin! The essence of sin is pride. Pride is an inaccurate and inflated view of my self. Pride is trying to fill the emptiness inside apart from God. |
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February 24, 2008 |
Distrust (What Lies Beneath Series)
Sin is not so much a violation of a list of rules as it is a distrust of God. We violate the list of rules in direct proportion to our distrust of God. |
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February 17, 2008 |
Skin (What Lies Beneath Series)
Our self-image is the compass we use to follow the life map that has been laid before us. With an unhealthy self-image we will find ourselves lost trying to live a life we were never intended
to live. God has a better way. |
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February 10, 2008 |
Self-Deception (What Lies Beneath Series)
What’s wrong with the human race? Why are we so wicked and evil? Our problem is sin. Add to that the fact that we are deceived by our sin. |
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February 3, 2008 |
Security (Remedy Series)
Continuing in Romans Chapter 8, how we can have hope and joy in the most difficult loses in life? If the world takes everything from us trying to drown me in sorrow, how can we maintain our
buoyancy in the face of all that? |
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January 27, 2008 |
Suffering (Remedy Series)
In the second week in Romans Chapter 8, we learn that we can expect suffering but also discover how we can make it work for us rather than against us. |
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January 20, 2008 |
Satisfaction (Remedy Series)
Looking at Romans Chapter 8 the following questions are examined - How does this relationship with Jesus Christ lead to life change? How to apply the principles of life change? |
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January 13, 2008 |
Struggle (Remedy Series)
Looking at Romans Chapter 7, the following question is examined - How does this relationship with Jesus Christ concretely and practically lead to change? |
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January 6, 2008 |
Surrender (Remedy Series)
Looking at Romans Chapter 6, the following questions are examined - How does faith in Jesus Christ change you? What is the process by which change happens?. |
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