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Verde Valley Christian Church Jul 17, 2022 Series: HOW - Simple Instructions, Practical Steps Title: "HOW You Can Be Filled With Overflowing Joy" Speaker: Jim Hammond John 15:4-11 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. "Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father. "I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father...

Welcome to Verde Valley Christian Church July 3, 2022 / / / How You Can Pray With Confidence Series: HOW - Simple Instructions, Practical Steps Title: "How You Can Pray With Confidence" Speaker: Jim Hammond I. WHY you can pray with confidence Hebrews 4:16 Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Isaiah 1:15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood! Isaiah 59:1-2 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. Ephesians 2:13 But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ...

Verde Valley Christian Church Jun 26 – Jul 2, 2022 Series: Center Stage Title: "Jesus Is Greater Than Expected" Speaker: Jim Hammond Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Week 1:Jesus Is Greater Than Moses (Today we discover Peter believed it!) Week 2:Jesus Is Greater Than David (Today we discover Peter believed it!) Week 3:Jesus Is Greater Than Expected (Today we discover that Peter had a lot more to learn!) I.Their greater EXPECTATIONS were too small Matthew 16:13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?" Matthew 16:14-16 They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets." "But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?" Simon Pete...

Verde Valley Christian Church Jun 12 – 18, 2022 Series: Center Stage Title: "Jesus Is Greater Than David" Speaker: Jim Hammond Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I. One son of David would reign FOREVER 2 Samuel 7:12-13 When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, your own flesh and blood, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. II. Jesus was the THAT son of David Matthew 1:1 This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham: Luke 1:32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, Micah 5:2 "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are...

Verde Valley Christian Church May 22, 2022 Series: Fan Into Flame Title: "Be Courageous" Speaker: Jim Hammond BE COURAGEOUS: 1. There will be TERRIBLE TIMES ahead 2 Timothy 3:1-5 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. 2 Timothy 3:13 while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 2 Timothy 3:6-9 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. Just ...

Verde Valley Christian Church May 1, 2022 Series: Fan Into Flame Title: "Be On Guard" Speaker: Jim Hammond 2 Timothy 1:12 (KJV) … he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. 2 Timothy 1:12 (ESV) … he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me. I. What's the CONTEXT? 2 Timothy 1:8-14 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convi...

Verde Valley Christian Church April 24, 2022 Series:   Fan Into Flame Title:    "Take Your Baton and Be Faithful" Speaker:    Doug Freeman "I know of  nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death." ~C.H. Spurgeon "Intentionality is the measuring stick of faithfulness." Philippians 3:12-16 ESV <small><font color="#999999">12</font></small> Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. <small><font color="#999999">13</font></small> Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, <small><font color="#999999">14</font></small> I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Chr...