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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 ...