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Reframing

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...

Training Your Mind

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...

Mastermind: Winning The War In Your Mind

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 ...

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? ...

What Would Jesus Undo-Week 1: "Indifference"

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 ...