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Summer School Part 1 Take Your Seat
Life is often compared to a classroom and my next series beginning this weekend is called Summer School: with Christ in the classroom of Love. We were made for relationship with God and each other. Nothing is more important than relationships. Just as we need to take our seat in class for our class time to have its greatest profit, we need to have a personal relationship with God and each other. What does it mean to be in Christ’s classroom…
Speaking of Mercy Part 7: Be a Catalyst for Mercy
The Church of Jesus Christ has been the traditional catalyst for social justice in impoverished countries, its’ time for us to be that same catalyst for our neighbors here in Mon Valley. Our greatest witness is showing mercy. We don’t have to convince anyone. But we’re called to show people the mercy of God that we’ve received. Tell them about the many times God has helped us by helping them. That’s how can we become catalysts of mercy! That’s how can we practice…
Speaking of Mercy Part 6: A Home Made in Mercy
It’s Easter Sunday and Jesus is Risen! In this message we to looked at the effect God’s power can have in our families. Because one of the hardest places to show mercy is right within the walls of our own homes. Family members hurt and are hurt by each other in ways that are especially challenging. Yet God wants our homes to be Homes Made in Mercy! There are at least four ways we can show mercy at home. Message outline notes from A Home Made…
Speaking of Mercy Part 5: Sharing Your Mercy
What we call “Psalm Sunday” was just another day until Jesus came in on donkey’s colt and the crowd, made up mostly of those he had touched cried: “Hossana – “Save Now.” This display lead to a crazed city asking in an uproar as he entered. “Who is this?” And the crowds replied, “It’s Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.” Matt.21:10-11(NLT) As we begin week five in our Speaking of Mercy series so far it’s been primarily about God’s mercy toward as our focus. But today, the…
Speaking Of Mercy Part 4: Mercy Qualifies You
“… Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.” Rom. 6:13 Today is week four in our Speaking of Mercy series. I want us to look at the idea that God can use anybody. Anybody. Because of his mercy. The problem is that a lot of people secretly fear that God could never use them. They feel that God…
Speaking of Mercy Part 3 – Mercy Says Enjoy and Forgive
In week three of “Speaking of Mercy” series a truth that promises to bring to our senses and our wills the freedom that at times only our heads embrace. What God has done for us in his forgiveness through Jesus Christ is not just a momentary emotion. God intended His Good News of forgiveness to create a genuine enduring emotion when it sinks deeply into our hearts. Freedom in two specific ways: When you say “God forgive me” and when you say “I forgive you”. It’s the truth that mercy forgives. You…
Speaking of Mercy 1 – Come to the Party
As we begin with God’s invitation to Come to Mercy’s Party there is something we must understand: in God’s eyes there are only two kinds of people. There are only two distinctions that really matter. There are saved people and there are lost people that God wants to be saved. All of us are in one of those two categories. We’re either saved or we’re lost. And ultimately no other human distinction matters. The purpose of this new series is to recognize that…
Done Enough Yet? Part 4: Plan VS Ad-Lib
For many because there is not a clear command to continue with the tithe nor a clear cancellation of it many struggle with their giving. In the age of law, 10% was simple obedience. In this age of grace, priceless grace and our freedom in Christ its easy to give what’s left at the end of the month or the end of the week. Should we have a strategy, a plan or do we just give as we’re lead? Having a strategy…
Done Enough Yet? 3 Secular VS Sacred
Jesus, I cannot wait till that moment when all creation will bow at the sound of your name. Until then, help my heart to stay bowed to you in all that I do. Amen. “And this is the plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ—everything in heaven and on earth.” Ephesians 1:10 (NLT)
Done Enough Yet? 2 Growing Faith Not Trophies
Christianity is a religion built entirely on the reality of one central event and you join it by faith. That event has three parts…the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. There are two distinct story lines that run throughout the Bible, they are belief and unbelief. “And if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and you are still guilty of your sins.” 1 Corinthians 15:16–17 (NLT)