Sunday, December 29, 2013

How to Get Where You Want to Be

The Principle of the Path Series

Three things About Getting Lost

  1. We do not get lost on purpose
  2. We do not know when we are getting lost, we discover it later
  3. Whatever road or path that we are on determines where we end up

Direction Determines Destination

  1. Not Desires
  2. Not Intentions
  3. Not a Dreams
  4. Not Hopes

There is often a DISCONNECT between the DESIRED DESTINATION and the PATH people are on.

PROVERBS 7:6-27

The Soundtrack the wise onlooker hears

There is always something .....

 

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Christmas, When All is NOT Calm!

Jim, Hammond, Verde Valley Christian Church, Dec 16, 2013

Luke 1

Focus: The Christmas story is like our own story, filled with seemingly random or chaotic events, but God works out a beautiful plan for those who love and trust Him.

I. CHAOS and CERTAINTY collide in The Christmas Story.

II. So that in the CHAOS you may be CERTAIN.

III. What does a FAVORED life look like?

IV. To the chaos came IMMANUEL (GOD is WITH us)

Remarkable faith is not the faith that moves God.

Remarkable faith is the faith that moves us to trust God when He doesn't seem to be moving.

 

Sunday, December 8, 2013

God's Greater Grace

Doug Freeman
James 4:4-10

Focus: God's Grace is greater than the power of sin, the flesh, the world and Satan.

I. The Great Spiritual Battle
A. The WORLD
B. The FLESH
C. The DEVIL
II. God's GRACE is GREATER.

III. Pursuing Peace
A. SUBMIT To God
B. DRAW NEAR To God
C. HUMBLE Yourself before God
James 4:4-10
Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
4 You people are not faithful to God! You should know that loving what the world has is the same as hating God. So anyone who wants to be friends with this evil world becomes God’s enemy. 5 Do you think the Scriptures mean nothing? The Scriptures say, “The Spirit God made to live in us wants us only for himself.”[a] 6 But the kindness God shows is greater. As the Scripture says, “God is against the proud, but he is kind to the humble.”[b]

7 So give yourselves to God. Stand against the devil, and he will run away from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. You are sinners, so clean sin out of your lives.[c] You are trying to follow God and the world at the same time. Make your thinking pure. 9 Be sad, be sorry, and cry! Change your laughter into crying. Change your joy into sadness. 10 Be humble before the Lord, and he will make you great.