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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:...

Verde Valley Christian Church Sep 24, 2023 Sermon Series: "Supernatural" Sermon Title: "Supernatural Provision" Speaker: Jim Hammond Deuteronomy 29:5 Yet the Lord says, "During the forty years that I led you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet. Philippians 4:19 And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. I. When God GUIDES, He always PROVIDES Isaiah 58:11 The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. II. God MULTIPLIES what you GIVE 2 Corinthians 9:10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be pour...

Verde Valley Christian Church Sep 17 – 23, 2023 Sermon Series: "Supernatural" Sermon Title: "Supernatural Protection" Speaker: Jim Hammond I. Long before you face a PROBLEM, God already has a PLAN Psalms 18:2 The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety. II. God does not ALWAYS PROTECT us fhe way we EXPECT Acts 16:16 Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling. Acts 16:17 She followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved." Acts 16:18 She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so annoyed that he turned around and said to the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!...

Verde Valley Christian Church Sep 10 – 16, 2023 Sermon Series: "Supernatural" Sermon Title: "Supernatural Healing" Speaker: Andrew Webb Luke 8:40-56 Now when Jesus returned, a crowd welcomed him, for they were all expecting him. Then a man named Jairus, a synagogue leader, came and fell at Jesus' feet, pleading with him to come to his house because his only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. "Who touched me?" Jesus asked. When they all denied it, Peter said, "Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you." But Jesus said, "Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me." Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at ...

Verde Valley Christian Church Sep 3, 2023 Sermon Series: "Supernatural" Sermon Title: "Supernatural Deliverance" Speaker: Jim Hammond Q: Why is the world so messed up? Why is life so hard? Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Revelation 12:9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. John 12:31 Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out. John 14:30 I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me, John 16:11 and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned. 1 John 3:8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been si...