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Verde Valley Christian Church Oct 22 – 28, 2023 Sermon Series: Missing PEACE Sermon Title: "Breaking the Grip of Worry" Speaker: Jim Hammond I. What WORRY Does A. It CHOKES You Mark 4:19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. I. What WORRY Does ...B. It BLINDS Your Ability to FOCUS Matthew 6:23-25 But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Matthew 6:34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worr...

Sermon Series: Missing PEACE Sermon Title: "Hope for Depression" Speaker: Doug Freeman 1. The Reality of Depression Proverbs 12:25 Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, But a good word makes it glad. Lamentations 3:17-20 I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. So I say, "My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the Lord." I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. 2. Finding Hope in Your Faith Lamentations 3:21-23 Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:24-26 I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him." The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the ...

Verde Valley Christian Church Oct 8 – 14, 2023 Sermon Series: Missing PEACE Sermon Title: "Heal My Anxious Mind" Speaker: Andrew Webb Matthew 14:22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. Matthew 14:23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, Matthew 14:24 and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it. Matthew 14:25 Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. Matthew 14:26 When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. "It's a ghost," they said, and cried out in fear. Matthew 14:27 But Jesus immediately said to them: "Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid." Matthew 14:28 "Lord, if it's you," Peter replied, "tell me to come to you on the water." Matthew 14:...