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December 8, 2019  / / /  Travel Light  / / /  Week 2: "Letting Go Of Distractions". In a crowded, busy holiday season, it's common for people to feel weighed down. Sometimes we carry weight that God never intended that we carry. His solution is simple: Let go of the baggage and travel light. ========== Title: "Letting Go Of Distractions" Speaker: Jim Hammond Series: Travel Light I. Have A MARY Christmas Luke 10:38-42 (NIV) As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!" 41 "Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but fe...

Welcome to Verde Valley Christian Church December 1, 2019 / / / Travel Light / / / Week 1: "Letting Go Of Stuff". Are you accumulating on Earth what you cannot keep? Or are you investing in Heaven what you cannot lose? ========== Title: "Letting Go Of Stuff" Speaker: Jim Hammond Series: Travel Light I. It’s better to have LESS of what doesn’t matter and MORE of what does. Ecclesiastes 4:6 (NIV)   Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. Luke 12:15 (NIV) … “Watch out!  Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” II. One HANDFUL Living Ecclesiastes 4:6 (NIV)   Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. A. THROW OUT Matthew 19:21-22 (NIV)  Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come,...

Week 2-"Love Kindness". If people are going to know that Jesus is for them, they need to know that we are for them. ========== Title: "Love Kindness" Speaker: Mike Mahon Series: FOR The Verde Valley Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? John 4:3-26 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?" (For Jews...

If people are going to know that Jesus is for them, they need to know that we are for them. ========== Title: "What Are We Here For?" Speaker: Matt Shires Series: For The Verde Valley As a church, we exist to: Help people take steps from wherever they are, to where God wants them to be. I. Three basics… Matthew 22:35-39 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: " ' Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind .' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ' Love your neighbor as yourself .' Matthew 28:18-20 Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything...

October 20, 2019 / / / One Minute Ofter You Die / / / Week 3-"Eternity With God". How does anyone approach questions about ETERNITY? How can we know what happens one minute after you die? Is there life after death? Is Heaven a real place? Where do we get any information? Is it all just wishful thinking? What you believe about eternity determines how you live today. ========== Title: "Eternity With God" Speaker: Jim Hammond Series: One Minute After You Die 1 Corinthians 2:9 That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him." John 14:1-2, 6 (NLT) "Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. {2} There is more than enough room in my Father's home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? … {6} Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the ...

How does anyone approach questions about ETERNITY? How can we know what happens one minute after you die? Is there life after death? Is Heaven a real place? Where do we get any information? Is it all just wishful thinking? What you believe about eternity determines how you live today. ========== Title: "Eternity Without God" Speaker: Jim Hammond Series: One Minute After You Die QUESTION: Why do you think there are a growing number of people who believe in Heaven that do not believe in Hell? Challenge Question: How can a supposedly Holy and loving God send anyone to the horrors of Hell forever? That seems mean and evil, not holy or loving. REFLECT What you believe about eternity determines how you live today. I. LESSONS from the other side Luke 16:19-31 "There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat ...

Welcome to Verde Valley Christian Church October 6, 2019  / / /  One Minute Ofter You Die  / / /  Week 1-"Threshold Of Eternity". How does anyone approach questions about ETERNITY?  How can we know what happens one minute after you die?  Is there life after death?  Is Heaven a real place?  Where do we get any information?  Is it all just wishful thinking? What you believe about eternity determines how you live today. ========== Title: "Threshold Of Eternity" Speaker: Jim Hammond Series: One Minute After You Die I. At the Threshold of Eternity… John 5:24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. Matthew 16:26-27 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angel...

September 15, 2019 / / / Mastermind / / / Week 3-Reframing Too often we become prisoners to thoughts telling us to worry, or telling us that we aren't good enough, or that we can't ever change our behavior. Join us in MASTERMIND, a series designed to shine a light on the dark strongholds that hold us down. Through the healing power of Christ and practical focused thinking practices we can renew our minds and be transformed for the better forever. ========== Title: "Reframing" Speaker: Doug Freeman Series: MASTERMIND "Your life is always moving in the direction of your strongest thoughts." 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obed...

Welcome to Verde Valley Christian Church September 8, 2019 / / / Mastermind / / / Week 2-Training Your Mind. Too often we become prisoners to thoughts telling us to worry, or telling us that we aren't good enough, or that we can't ever change our behavior. Join us in MASTERMIND, a series designed to shine a light on the dark strongholds that hold us down. Through the healing power of Christ and practical focused thinking practices we can renew our minds and be transformed for the better forever. ========== Title: "Training Your MInd" Speaker: Jim Hammond Series: MASTERMIND Review: Your life is always moving in the direction of your strongest thoughts. Review: God's Word and science agree: 1) We can train our minds. 2) We can deconstruct harmful thought patterns and replace them. I. THINK about what you THINK about A. Use God's FILTER Philippians 4:8 (NLT2) …Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and...

Welcome to Verde Valley Christian Church September 1, 2019 / / / Mastermind / / / Week 1-Winning the War in Your Mind. Too often we become prisoners to thoughts telling us to worry, or telling us that we aren't good enough, or that we can't ever change our behavior. Join us in MASTERMIND, a series designed to shine a light on the dark strongholds that hold us down. Through the healing power of Christ and practical focused thinking practices we can renew our minds and be transformed for the better forever. ========== Title: "Winning The War In Your Mind" Speaker: Jim Hammond Series: MASTERMIND 2 Corinthians 10:3-4 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 2 Corinthians 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought ...

Welcome to Verde Valley Christian Church August 25, 2019  / / /  I Choose  / / /  Week 4-IMPORTANT OVER URGENT. We are shaped by many factors: our genetics, experiences, relationships, perceptions, and beliefs, to name a few, but our CHOICES matter far more than we realize. ========== Title: "IMPORTANT OVER URGENT" Speaker: Jim Hammond Series: I Choose Reflect: No matter what, time gets filled with something.  What fills your time shapes your life. QUESTION: What important matters are you neglecting? HOW TO CHOOSE THE IMPORTANT OVER THE URGENT 1.        Maintain Margin Mark 1:45 (NIV)   … Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere. Mark 3:20 Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. Mark 4:35-39 That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, ...

Verde Valley Christian Church Aug 18 – 20, 2019 ========== Welcome to Verde Valley Christian Church August 18, 2019 / / / I Choose / / / Week 3-Discipline Over Regret. We are shaped by many factors: our genetics, experiences, relationships, perceptions, and beliefs, to name a few, but our CHOICES matter far more than we realize. ========== Title: "Discipline Over Regret" Speaker: Jim Hammond Series: I Choose About This Series: We are shaped by many factors: our genetics, experiences, relationships, perceptions, and beliefs, to name a few. But our CHOICES matter far more than we realize. I. Discipline chooses what you want MOST over what you want NOW. Romans 7:15, 18-19, 24-25 (NLT) I don't really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don't do it. Instead, I do what I hate... I want to do what is right, but I can't. I want to do what is good, but I don't. I don't want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway... Oh...

We are shaped by many factors: our genetics, experiences, relationships, perceptions, and beliefs, to name a few, but our CHOICES matter far more than we realize. ========== Title: "Surrender Over Control" Speaker: Matt Shires Series: I Choose James 4:1-17 What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don't they come from the evil desires at war within you? You want what you don't have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can't get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don't have what you want because you don't ask God for it. And even when you ask, you don't get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure. You adulterers! Don't you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. Do you think the Scriptures have no meaning? ...

Verde Valley Christian Church May 26 – 28, 2019 ========== Welcome to Verde Valley Christian Church May 26, 2019 / / / What Would Jesus Undo-Week 1: "Indifference". If Jesus walked into our church today, what would he be pleased by? What would he want to change? If Jesus observed your life today, what would he be pleased by? What would he want to change? During this series, we will be challenged to consider the ways in which we live out our faith, and what things Jesus would want us to change. ========== Title: "Indifference" Speaker: Doug Freeman Series: What Would Jesus Undo? Revelation 3:15-16 "I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth! By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from ...

Bad Advice-Week 1: "How To Commit Adultery" In this series we take a critical look at some of the "bad advice" to which we often fall prey, and contrast it to the godly advice we all need to take. ========== Matthew 5:27 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' 65% of husbands and 55% of wives will commit adultery. Journal of Psychology and Christianity Why is it that so many people who never thought they would ever commit adultery, do commit adultery? BAD ADVICE: Just take 3 easy steps… 1. NEGLECT your marriage. · Don't give them your best. · Give them your worst. · Stop talking. · Stop dating or working at romance. 2. Enjoy your marriage. · Don't give them your best. · Give them your worst. · Stop talking. · Stop dating or working at romance. 3. Enjoy COMMON interests and form an interests and form an EMOTIONAL bond with someone else. · ...

Welcome to Verde Valley Christian Church April 21, 2019 / / / Epicenter-Week 2: "Ressurection". In this two part series, we untangle the question of the meaning of life, by looking at the very epicenter of our faith, the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. ========== Title: "Resurrection" Speaker: Jim Hammond Series: Epicenter John 16:33 "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." Mark 16:1 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus' body. John 20:2 (NIV) …"They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!" I. Does it sound like NONSENSE to you? Luke 24:12 Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, won...

Verde Valley Christian Church Apr 14 – 16, 2019 ========== Welcome to Verde Valley Christian Church April 14, 2019  / / /   Epicenter-Week 1: "Crucifixion". In this two part series, we untangle the question of the meaning of life, by looking at the very epicenter of our faith, the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. ========== Title: "Crucifixion" Speaker: Jim Hammond Series: Epicenter "Drugs and alcohol are not my problem. Reality is my problem. Drugs and alcohol are my solution. They fill up the hole inside of me." —Russell Brand "I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer." —Jim Carrey "Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destroy?" —Leo Tolstoy How can his gruesome death be called "Good"? I.      Don't be SURPRISED by darkness; Jesus ...

Verde Valley Christian Church Apr 7, 2019 ========== Love Like Jesus, Week 3: "Break Bread" ========== Focus: If we want to live like Jesus, we need to love like Jesus. Luke 7:33-35 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.' The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.' But wisdom is proved right by all her children." Acts 2:42-47 They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God an...