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Series: Rhythm
Steve Jones
Ephesians 4:26-31
SERIES SUMMARY: We all want to live an abundant life and a holy life but sometimes we struggle. To struggle less we must stay in ‘‘rhythm’’ with the Holy Spirit. This series is about how to stay in ‘‘rhythm’’ with the Holy Spirit by practicing what are traditionally known as the spiritual disciplines.
SERMON SUMMARY: This sermon REVIEWS the four daily rhythms of the Holy Spirit: 1) Bible, 2) Prayer, 3) Music, and 4) Exercise. Then we introduce the ‘‘First Rhythm Runner Up’’ which is journaling.
INTRODUCTION: From the book, ‘‘Never Split the Difference’’ by Chris Voss (Former FBI hostage negotiator). It was 1998 and I was standing in a narrow hallway outside an apartment on the 27th floor of a high-rise in Harlem. I was the head of the NY City FBI Crises Negotiation Team, and that day I was the primary negotiator. The investigative squad had reported that at least three heavily armed fugitives were holed up inside. Several days earlier the fugitives had used automatic weapons in a shoot-out with a rival gang, so the NY City FBI SWAT team was arrayed behind me, and our snipers were on nearby rooftops with rifles trained on the apartment windows. We had one big problem that day in Harlem: no telephone number to call into the apartment. So for six straight hours, relieved periodically by two FBI agents who were learning crisis negotiation, I spoke through the apartment door. ‘‘It looks like you don’t want to come out,’’ I said repeatedly. ‘‘It seems like you worry that if you open the door, we’ll come in with guns blazing. It looks like you don’t want to go back to jail.’’ For six hours, we got no response. And then, when we were almost completely convinced that no one was inside, a sniper on an adjacent building radioed that he saw one of the curtains in the apartment move. The front door of the apartment slowly opened. All three fugitives came out. None of them said a word until we h ...
Series: Rhythm
Steve Jones
Ephesians 4:26-31
SERIES SUMMARY: We all want to live an abundant life and a holy life but sometimes we struggle. To struggle less we must stay in ‘‘rhythm’’ with the Holy Spirit. This series is about how to stay in ‘‘rhythm’’ with the Holy Spirit by practicing what are traditionally known as the spiritual disciplines.
SERMON SUMMARY: This sermon REVIEWS the four daily rhythms of the Holy Spirit: 1) Bible, 2) Prayer, 3) Music, and 4) Exercise. Then we introduce the ‘‘First Rhythm Runner Up’’ which is journaling.
INTRODUCTION: From the book, ‘‘Never Split the Difference’’ by Chris Voss (Former FBI hostage negotiator). It was 1998 and I was standing in a narrow hallway outside an apartment on the 27th floor of a high-rise in Harlem. I was the head of the NY City FBI Crises Negotiation Team, and that day I was the primary negotiator. The investigative squad had reported that at least three heavily armed fugitives were holed up inside. Several days earlier the fugitives had used automatic weapons in a shoot-out with a rival gang, so the NY City FBI SWAT team was arrayed behind me, and our snipers were on nearby rooftops with rifles trained on the apartment windows. We had one big problem that day in Harlem: no telephone number to call into the apartment. So for six straight hours, relieved periodically by two FBI agents who were learning crisis negotiation, I spoke through the apartment door. ‘‘It looks like you don’t want to come out,’’ I said repeatedly. ‘‘It seems like you worry that if you open the door, we’ll come in with guns blazing. It looks like you don’t want to go back to jail.’’ For six hours, we got no response. And then, when we were almost completely convinced that no one was inside, a sniper on an adjacent building radioed that he saw one of the curtains in the apartment move. The front door of the apartment slowly opened. All three fugitives came out. None of them said a word until we h ...
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