Sermons

1. Not all anger is sin Ephesians 4: 25, 26 So stop telling lies let us tell our neighbors the truth for we are all parts of the same body and don’t sin by letting anger control you We are not called to ignore all that is going on around us, yet we have to be careful how we confront… Continue reading Love Defined Anger

We are answering the question in Mark “What is the most important commandment?” Jesus answered. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart soul mind and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.” 1 Corinthians 13 4b, 5a “Love is not…Proud or rude” Pride = a high or inordinate opinion of one’s own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, displayed… Continue reading Love Defined Pride and Rude

1 Corinthians 13: 4 Love is not jealous or boastful Jealous means… Seethe or to boil Seeing deficiency Key Thought Envy will wound others, but it will kill the one whom it is manifesting itself through. James 4: 1 -3 Ecclesiastes 4: 4, 6 John Dawson called it a handful of nothing Roots of Jealousy 1. Distorted picture of who… Continue reading Love Defined Jealousy and Bragging

Long suffering is enduring what comes against us by putting anger far from us. Long suffering is a passive quality because it is withholding our anger, while kindness is the counter part. Key Point: Love is not love just because it suffers long. It is love because when it suffers, it answers with kindness. 1. Kind with our Words Matthew… Continue reading Living Near the Kingdom Kindness

Key Point: We are called to walk out patience int his world 1. Agapee is God God would never ask us to do something that He Himself did not demonstrate to us. The words that define love are words that define God Himself. 2. Love is long suffering Patience has to do with things longsuffering has to dow ith people… Continue reading Living near the Kingdom: Patience Lived Out

Love Biblically defined Philia based on agreement friendship Sterge in family affection Eros love between the sexes Agapee it is born in Christianity as there is no trace of it in any heathen writings Eroos is upward movement while agapee is downward movement. Eroos lifts man up, but agapee brings God down and indwells us so we can also show… Continue reading Loving your neighbor as Yourself

Where we have been. We want to be good ground so we can produce a harvest for the kingdom of God. Break up hard ground (Attitude of superiority) Pull out rocks that make us shallow (lose interest and become offended) Pull out weeks that choke out what God wants to do in our lives (love of wealth) Mark 12 states… Continue reading Living Near the Kingdom (Loving God with all our strength)

Mark 12: 29 the most important commandment You Must love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Heart means compassion Mind, means curiosity Soul means wonder A. We can lose the awe of the world around us Psalm 29: 7 The voice of the Lord strikes with bolts of lightening. All those in the temple… Continue reading Not Far From the Kingdom – Love with all your soul

Mark 12: 28 What is the most important commandment? Loving God with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength. If we can grasp what this means, we are not living far from the kingdom of God. Heart = passion Mind = curiosity 1. The Brain. The brain is an incredible thing which has amazing abilities to grow and learn…. Continue reading Not Far From the Kingdom – Love with all your Mind

You must love God with all your heart Mark 12: 30 1. Our hearts can become like well trampled ground (Luke 8: 12) Trampled means an air of superiority or becoming a sermon proof christian. Ezekiel 36: 26 “I will give you anew heart and put a new spirit inyou; I will remove from you your heart of stone and… Continue reading Not Far From the Kingdom – Love with all your heart

Jesus is being challenged by questions from the crowd Where do you get your authority from (Question asked in Luke version of the story) This is comparable to asking “Who says you have the truth?” Should we pay taxes? Trying to make Christianity look foolish Questions of the resurrection those who are set in their beliefs and just want to… Continue reading Not Far From the Kingdom

Simplicity is defined as freedom from complexity Complexity is defined as composed of many different parts, hard to understand or deal with. Oliver Wendell Holmes former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court distinguished between two types of symplicity. Simplicity on the near side of complexity and simplicity on the far side of complexity. He said he would not give a… Continue reading Missional Grace – Audacious in the Midst of Complexity