Sermons on Church Life (Page 2)
Let’s Talk, Part 1: Let’s Talk About My Angry Heart
Let’s Talk, Part 1: Let’s Talk About My Angry Heart I believe this: THEIR need for Jesus is greater than YOUR need for respect. The world’s need for Christ is greater than your saying, “I deserve more. You’re offending me because I am better than that!” Well, you’re salt and light in a pretty dark world. And the world will constantly offend you. The world will always prop itself up as better than you. … Make a choice to not…
We are Family, Part 7: The Family Worships Together
We are Family, Part 7: The Family Worships Together The greatest thing about a family of faith coming to worship together is that we are literally a witness to the rest of the world of what Christ can do. And when we come into a relationship with him, worship is a witness of the gospel story, of a dead heart becoming new again. Download the PDF above to follow along with notes.
We are Family, Part 6: Single and Seeking
We are Family, Part 6: Single and Seeking Why is the gospel good news for those of us who are single—especially when we don’t necessarily really want to be? The gospel is good news because Jesus is pursuing you. … God sent Jesus to the cross to pursue a relationship with you, and He continues to pursue you. Jesus was obedient to that plan because He wants that relationship with you, too.
We are Family, Part 5: The Gospel of Dad
We are Family, Part 5: The Gospel of Dad Here’s how you need to dress for the job [of godly fatherhood]: you dress with humility. It’s like you walk out the door in the morning-time and instead of putting on a suit, to make sure everybody knows that I’m the boss, you put on a cloak of humility. … Your greatest need is to be the most humble man on the planet. Ephesians puts it this way: ‘Love your wife…
We are Family, Part 4: The Youths
We are Family, Part 4: The Youths To the students in the room: my hope and my prayer is that you will faithfully and boldy follow after Jesus and go to the world with [the] good news that He is Lord, because Jesus is better than anything the world has to offer. Family: the gospel is good news to the youth because it’s ultimately not about them; it’s about Jesus. Download the PDF above to follow along with notes.
We are Family, Part 3: Seniors
We are Family, Part 3: Seniors This is a temporary residence. If I’m going to grow in maturity as an older person—not just growing with grace, but growing with pure gospel presence in my life—I will live as a stranger, not as a permanent resident. … How pathetically sad [to think], “I’m a permanent resident on this earth and a stranger in eternity,” when in reality, as a disciple of Christ, it’s the exact opposite: I’m a stranger on this…
We are Family, Part 2: The Body of Christ
Christ’s body is made up of believers of every race, tribe, nation and ethnicity—all in communion with the Holy Spirit. … On a cellular level, we have an individual purpose, and we’re called to do something in our specific time, and God is working through us where we are—but if we looked at the whole picture and stepped back out of time and space, we’d see how all these individual cells of human beings all combine into the body of Christ that is moving across time and space to seek and save the lost. And when we understand this perspective of what Paul is describing, of being different parts yet part of the same body, we understand there’s this much deeper connection between us, that may be right on the surface. As believers, there’s a deep connection between you and me, and it’s that we’re all individually a part of Jesus working to save those around us. And honestly, how can there be a deeper connection than that?
We are Family, Part 1: Motherhood—It’s Complicated!
I want to make sure that all the moms sitting here today know that you are present in the Bible. The Bible was written for you just as much as for everyone else. And just like everyone else, it applies to your personal, complicated situation. Again, it may not be in the way that we expect, but the Bible speaks to the complicated lives of mothers. And the most important way it does that is through the gospel. The gospel brings freedom to the complicated lives of mothers. … The message of the gospel means that you can lay down your burdens, your failures, your expectations, and live out each day in the freedom and dependence of Jesus.
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