SERMONS ON FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE
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Restoring Faith, Hope, and Love (2 of 5)
by Kerry Shook
There have been so many pictures that really have grabbed my heart of the flood; and one that really stands out to me is a picture of a little boy in Dickinson, Texas, as his parents are tweeting out they need rescue desperately. Here it is. He's just sitting up there, holding on to his little stuffed animal, watching the floodwaters rise. I love how he's just holding on to that little monkey. He's not letting go. Fortunately, he was one of those rescued. But he's holding on, and there's no way. They're going through this together. He's holding on with all his might; and by the way, I think you guys donated about 5,000 stuffed...
Shaken Faith and Shattered Hope (1 of 10)
by Stan Coffey
We begin a brand new series of messages today that we will be talking about over the next several weeks. And I do that on Easter because I hope that many of you will come back and want to hear the rest of the series of messages. Today we start a series of messages entitled, ''Renewing Your Passion For Life.'' Jesus' passion caused Him to go to the cross. Jesus had a passion that caused Him to leave heaven; it caused Him to come to this earth. He had a passion for you and for me. And you and I are supposed to live life with passion. God wants us to have a passion for everything that we do especially...
Hope for the Hopeless (7 of 28)
by Josh Malone
Have you ever felt hopeless? Desperate? Alone? Neglected? Powerless?- Maybe you've been through something and you wonder why in the world you had to go through that. Why didn't God prevent that. Maybe you've been in a situation and you didn't feel there was anyway out. Maybe you are there this morning ... a marriage on the rocks, financial disaster, crisis of health... Quite simply there are things we go through in life that we simply don't have the answer for. There is nothing in our resources from which to pull from... we've done all we know to do... and we don't know what else to do. - In these situations we have a...
Faith Works through Love (5 of 8)
by Lenny Ports
So let's talk about the love of the Father first. I am going to let the Word of God show you how much He loves you. First, this was Paul's prayer for the church. It is a timeless prayer and one of utmost importance. It is my prayer for the fathers, the mothers, the brothers, and the sisters, and all of our church and those that may be listening on the worldwide web. This is what we want to see come to pass in your lives…Ephesians 3:14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be...
Real Love (2 of 4)
by Lenny Ports
We were so blessed with the miraculous story of how God brought Janice Rice back from near death and showed her His unconditional, unchanging, and unfailing love. We are in the month of love, Tuesday is Valentine's Day and we are in a sermon series called LOVE SO STRONG. I usually don't let the days on the calendar dictate what I should preach about, but this LOVE message is so timely and so vitally important to our growth. I said it last week, that I believe a good majority of people, even those that have given their lives to Jesus, still have a hard time understanding and receiving the LOVE OF GOD. Last...
Heaven Is a World of Love (3 of 3)
by Scott Maze
Let a man do whatever religious thing he wishes, it means nothing without love. Love is the greatest of God's gifts. Love is deeper than emotions. Love is the God-given proof that you are Christ's disciples (John 13:35). This is a message about the future but it is also a map for the present. Since the future is not something we are permitted to see directly - only God sees the end from the beginning - in order to this sermon to be anything other than an exercise in conceit, it has to be based squarely on what God as revealed in His Word. ''If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or...
What Matters Most
by Rex Yancey
What matters most in Christianity? What matters most in the life of the church? If I gave each of you a chance to answer those questions, I am sure there would be a multiplicity of answers.The Apostle Paul told the Church at Corinth that love is what matters most. God poured out his love for us by sending his Son, Jesus to die for us. Jesus demonstrated his love by dying on the cross for us. The Spirit of God filled us with the love of God when we got saved. However, we can lose that love for God and for each other. The Church at Laodicea left their first love. Have you ever dropped an Alka-Seltzer in a glass of water and it was...
A Life of Faith (2 of 5)
by Joey Rodgers
If you're just joining us, last week we began a series of lessons on the essential qualities Jesus says every person needs if they're to be successful in life. In particular, last week we spoke about the need for absolute truth b/c truth is the foundation on which we establish our values, beliefs, ambitions, hopes, and convictions. This AM, I want to speak to the 2nd essential quality of success - faith. Faith is a quality we all exercise in some way every day in the simplest of ways. Daily we put our faith in family/friends, our colleagues/clients - that they're going to come thru and do as they say they will do. We put our faith in our...
The Bridge of Faith (3 of 7)
by Jeff Ecklund
We are continuing this morning in our series of Foundations/Pillars. Jesus is the foundation, and there are some pillars or supports, if you will, of the restoration of our lives as believers. Some of these are elementary things if you've been walking with the Lord for a while. But consider them are a reminder. But for others new to the faith, these are absolute building blocks to your faith. We have covered the importance of God's Word, and that we were created to walk with God, and hear God. You and I operate best when we are communicating with God! I want to talk about another important aspect of our relationship with God...
Is There Hope?
by Robert Walker
Lisa called her Pastor at four-thirty in the morning. I can't stand living any longer. Inside of me I'm lost and empty. There's so much fear and uncertainty, and a loneliness that never leaves me alone. I don't know what to do. I am so confused. I've got to get away from it all. I want to love and be happy. I want to be free. I want to love myself and other people. I want my life to have meaning and purpose. I want to be able to look forward to the next day of living and to have peace inside me instead of fear and loneliness. I want the emptiness inside me to be filled with love and happiness. I want to care for other people and...
Separating Superstition from Faith (4)
by Robert Dawson
A new Rabbi was a little nervous heading into his first service at a very old established synagogue. He quickly found himself in a very uncomfortable situation during one particular prayer. Half the congregants stood for the prayer, and half remained seated. The moment become even more uncomfortable and intense when the half that was seated started yelling for those who were standing to be seated and the ones who were standing began yelling at those who were seated to stand up. The new rabbi didn't know what to do. In an attempt to get to the bottom of this, someone suggested that he consult the...
Making Your Faith Visible (5 of 13)
by Scott Maze
Churches and Christians talk a great deal about faith. And yet faith is invisible. Faith in and of itself cannot be seen. Paul points to the invisible nature of faith in the classic verse of Romans 10:9: ''because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved'' (Romans 10:9). You cannot look inside my heart. While faith is invisible, yet it still leaves its impact in a tangible, visible way. For faith is like calories. You can see neither of them but can always see their results. A June 2006 report from the National Prison Commission states, ''What happens...
Love God - Love People (23 of 28)
by Josh Malone
What is the most important thing God commanded in all of the OT? That's a big ? and the one Jesus gets asked today. How do you take the OT and sum it up? Jesus does that for a man today. READ TEXT- Mark 12:28-34- And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, ''Which commandment is the most important of all?'' 29 Jesus answered, ''The most important is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all...
How to Find the Love of a Lifetime (43 of 64)
by Brad Whitt
Well, tonight we're looking at how to find the love of a lifetime. You're there in Genesis 24, and what you find here as you come to verse one is that Abraham has buried his sweetheart, Sarah. He's been married over 100 years to that woman. During those years, man, God had blessed him, and he had amassed a massive amount of wealth. He had huge herds, and as a result of that, they had meat and they had leather to sell. He had flocks. They had meat and they had wool to sell as a result of that. There's all kinds of money coming in to the family, taking care of the family and all those that are associated with the tribe of Abraham, if...
The Supremacy of Love (1 of 3)
by Scott Maze
Beside Psalm 23 and the Lord's Prayer, 1 Corinthians 13 represents on of the most well known and loved passages in all of the Bible. Perhaps it is the most cherished passage in all of the Apostle Paul's writings. And while the word love is mentioned ten times in this one chapter, you'll not find one command in the entire chapter. Paul could have written about the importance of love in just one or two sentences. Yet, he slows the entire letter to a near stop in order to expand on love. This lofty literary accomplishment is best known from weddings. Yet, 1 Corinthians 13 is not about weddings though it is fine to repeat these...
How Do We Demonstrate The Gospel Of Hope?
by Jerry Branch
How do we demonstrate the Gospel of Hope? Paul wrote this letter to the Christians in Colossae while he was in the Roman jail in about 60-64 AD. Perhaps since we've all been watching the war maps, and have a little better idea of the countries in the region, it might help us visualize where this city was...because Colossae was located in what is now Turkey. Colossae had once been a very prominent city, back around 481 BC when the Persian king, Xerxes marched through it (remember Ahasuerus in Esther?)...back then it was right on the main trade routes that ran east from Ephesus and north to Pergamos. But during...
There Is Hope
by Daniel Rodgers
INTRODUCTION: We are just six days away from the elections. In my mind, this is will be the most important election in my lifetime. Whoever takes the White House will determine the future course of our nation. Our country is at war, our economy is in a shambles, and people are fearful about the drastic changes we are facing. But I want to tell you, for the Christian there is hope. I like what David said in Psalm 5:11, "But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee." QUOTE: In the 17th century, Francis Sales...
Faith, Hope And Love (2 of 18)
by Tony Nester
Last week we began this series of messages on The Letter of Paul to the Colossians. We saw how Paul began by presenting himself as an apostolic leader and identifying the believers in Colossae as the saints of God. This was all by way of introduction. Now we're ready to get into the message of Paul's letter. Let's begin with verses 3: {3} "In our prayers for you we always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...Paul loved hearing about this church. Whenever he went to prayer he thanked God for the church at Colossae. As we learned last week Paul had not established this church nor had he visited these...
