"…that God may open a door (Col. 4:3)"
"Christ" Tagged Sermons
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, “But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you…” The willingness of the Corinthian Christians to pursue lawsuits against fellow Christians illustrates that people will naturally pursue what they feel they deserve, even against fellow Christians. But what does that say to the world around us?
The sermon this week continues the series based on 1-2 Peter and 1-3 John. God is love. To think of love is to think first of God. The truth is, as Les & Leslie Parrott write,”no matter what our choices, God still loves.” The way that we know we love God is that we love…
Being sick for a prolonged period of time or losing your job. Is that suffering? Apparently not. Jesus and the apostles endured the most heinous of treatment, and counted it as a blessing: “They called the apostles in and had them flogged…” but they went away “REJOICING” (Acts 5:40 NIV). In this lesson, Mike explores how we view the concept of suffering and the ways it can change our perception of life.
This sermon begins a series that will follow along with our Wednesday night Summer Series study on the books of 1-2 Peter and 1-3 John. Peter says the death of Jesus “ransomed” mankind from an “empty way of life” (1 Peter 1:18 NIV). That ransom was accomplished by the trading of one life for many,…
We are, in many ways, like Mephibosheth – broken and subject to death – but we have gained our freedom, because “anyone who has died has been freed from sin” (Romans 6:7). But Christian freedom is based on the decision to first…die.
As the year comes to an end, resolutions are often on the minds of people. Quite often people are resolved to change things in the coming New Year. How often do those things reflect something in our spiritual lives?