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IMPORTANT OVER URGENT

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, ...

Discipline Over Regret

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...

Surrender Over Control

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? ...