Sermons
Returning To Gilgal
How easy is it to forget the goodness and faithfulness of God? Where do you need to be reminded of God’s faithfulness? Come back to the camp and remember that God was faithful to deliver you before. He is still faithful today. And He is faithful to lead you through anything you come against in the future.
Prone To Wander
Many of us have idols. We just don’t realize it. Ask yourself…
Where do I spend my time?
How do I use my talents?
Where do I spend my money?
What occupies my mind?
Where do I find my joy?
Compassion In A Desolate Place
The crowd was with Jesus for 3 days without food. Their desire to be with Him was greater than their desire for food.
Jesus had compassion on the crowd. Compassion means to co-suffer with someone. Jesus had more than empathy or pity; He suffered with the crowd.
Jesus gave them what they needed to sustain them on their way home.
Jesus knows more than anyone else what you are going through because He has compassion for you. He endures your struggles with you.
Jesus made sure the entire crowd was fed and satisfied. Even when we can’t see Jesus from where we are, He still cares deeply for us.
Being yoked with Jesus is another image of His compassion.
The compassion of God…
…gives our souls rest.
…restores our hope.
…leads us through the struggle to the cross.
…knows we’re starving and gives us the Bread of Life to sustain us.
…gets us all the way home to Him.
…became the Passion of Christ.
Live The Cross
Peter’s (and the disciples’) view of the Messiah was too limited.
The Kingdom of God is here now but is also yet to come.
Jesus taught the disciples “on the way.”
Rebuke comes as a challenge to understand and leads to repentance.
We see what we are trained to see more than what is there.
Social justice is important to the heart of God, and He wants the best for us, but there is more to being a disciple than that.
Getting Jesus’ title correct is only the first step of being a disciple. Disciples are called to deny self, take up their execution stake, and follow Christ.
When we deny ourselves, we say “no” to the “I” that would enslave us, and we say “yes” to God, and He leads us to life.
To take up our cross and follow Christ means to suffer and die. It’s the difference between a disciple and an admirer of Christ.
Jesus doesn’t need new PR or good marketing. He needs disciples who are dying to self and living the cross.
Praise* in every circumstance
There are lingering effects to spending so much time isolated from one another.
It’s ok to not be ok.
Saying “I’m fine” when we aren’t really fine is not healthy.
There is power in praise and worship.
Lament is meant to be a part of our worship.
Praising God is not for God’s benefit or our own. We praise God because of whoHe is and who we are.
Sometimes we just have to praise, even if we don’t feel like it. There is a longingfor God deeper than our feelings.
The more we spin our wheels when we are stuck in a rut, the deeper the rut gets.Jesus tells us to go to Him, and He will give us rest.