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Remembering

Verde Valley Christian Church Dec 31, 2023 – Jan 6, 2024 Sermon Title: "Remembering" Speaker: Doug Bridge 1. When remembering is NOT a GOOD PLAN at all. 2. When remembering is a GREAT PLAN ! MEMORY VERSES - Pick One: "Lord, I will remember what you did. Yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. Psalm 77:11 (NIRV) OR "Remember Lot's wife." Luke 17:32 (ESV,KJV,NASB,NCV, NIV,NIRV) 3. A GREAT PLAN for 2024 and beyond . . .

Christmas Gift Giving Guide - "Gifts of Sacrifice"

Verde Valley Christian Church Dec 17, 2023 Sermon Series: Christmas Gift Giving Guide Sermon Title: "Gifts of Sacrifice" Speaker: Andrew Webb Giving Sacrificially.  1. Know God's MERCY and Respond Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice , holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind . Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. 2. Know what God GAVE UP and Respond Philippians 2:5-11 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he hu...

Christmas Gift Giving Guide - "Gifts of Inconvenience"

Verde Valley Christian Church Dec 10, 2023 Sermon Series: Christmas Gift Giving Guide Sermon Title: "Gifts of Inconvenience" Speaker: Jim Hammond WAYS TO GO OUT OF YOUR WAY 1. Pay the PRICE of SACRIFICE 2 Samuel 24:24 But the king replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them. WAYS TO GO OUT OF YOUR WAY 2. The inconvenient gift of SERVING Luke 1:38 "I am the Lord's servant ," Mary answered. "May your word to me be fulfilled." Then the angel left her. WAYS TO GO OUT OF YOUR WAY 3. The inconvenient gift of RESPONSIBILITY WAYS TO GO OUT OF YOUR WAY 4. The inconvenient gift of FORGIVENESS John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Luke 23...

The Power of Thanksgiving-"Be the One"

Verde Valley Christian Church Dec 3 – 9, 2023 Sermon Series: The Power of Thanksgiving Sermon Title: "Be the One" Speaker: Jim Hammond _____________ "There  is a danger for all of us who are often thinking forward, and that's the danger of forgetting to be thanking backward." Luke 17:11-14 Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, "Jesus, Master, have pity on us!" When he saw them, he said, "Go, show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were cleansed. BE THE ONE … 1. That RISKS the first step BE THE ONE … 2. That RUSHES to respond Luke 17:15 One of them , when he saw he was healed, came back , praising God in a loud voice. BE THE ONE … 3. That RECIPROCATES with thanks Luke 17:15-16 One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a ...