"vision" Tagged Sermons (Page 2)
Life in Circles Part 1 – Watch Your Step
Commitment isn’t enough. You and I, we must be connected. Life is better connected because connection results in, faithfulness. It’s not enough to have strong commitments and convictions. We must have strong connections; we must be in environments where we’re encouraged, urged, and exhorted to remain faithful. This begins a two-part series in preparation for beginning our new Fall community groups.
Summer School Part 2 Recess
This week in our new series Summer School we look at one aspect of summer school that we normally find in the curriculum, recess. That longed for break in the morning and afternoon where we can get outside and play some games like dodge ball and tag. but what about follow the leader. A safe life is a wasted life. God has made you my male friend for much more than the the life you allow your fears to define for…
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…
No Small Dreams Part 4 Work Like Heaven
Its been said that the greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a wasted life. Not only is this life the only opportunity people have to trust Christ as savior but it is also the only opportunity we have as Christians to give God our all. I don’t want you to settle for second place. I want you to win the race that God has given to you. I don’t want you to settle for a small harvest. I want you to…
No Small Dreams – Part 2 – Four Commitments for Big Dreams
God has BIG plans and purposes for His creation. He’s imagined it and we can understand that because He has given us, those created in His image, ability to dream the ability to imagine! To dream is a gift from God, its a tool, anything that God gives as a gift can be misused, abused and perverted. Those dreams can also be our source to activate the laws of sowing and reaping which pertain to all, not just believers in Christ. They begin when we first plant…
No Small Dreams Part 1: Eyes to See
No Small Dreams series is not merely an attempt to empower you for positive thinking or to lead you to just live hoping for the best. I want to challenge you to step up and face the giants of fear, failure, hurt and the unknown. God has called you to step out bravely into His purpose for your life here and now. What appears to be risk to those who don’t know God’s will is mere faithfulness for those who do! No Small…
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 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)