Sermons

Essential NOT Optional Ephesians 2:8-10, Hebrews 11;1, 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17

If your truly going to surrender your life to Jesus…then you got to get out of your own way … choosing to follow Jesus is the hardest thing you will ever do!

When life is hard, we are to remember that the Lord is our Strength. Those who don’t know David that well often picture him as a man of superhuman strength. He is spoken of as the young man who single-handedly slew the giant Goliath. The truth is that David was by no means strong in himself. The key to David’s strength and greatness was that he allowed the Lord to be his strength.

To consider the thought that my life knows no secrets from the penetrating eye of God may be unnerving. Yet I want to be known. I need to be known. I need God to shape my heart and renovate my spirit.

Man lives in terror of being exposed before God. He imagines that God has one intent, to destroy him. But the true design of the observation of God is to bring repentance and life. To be known of God may mean to be exposed to His wrath. Yet without it there is no redemption. The essence of redemption is understood in terms of being known of God.

It Happens Psalm 118

Our circumstances do not shape the way we view God; God shapes the way we view our circum-stances. God is active, God is sovereign, and God is personal. And because those are true, you can have peace when circumstances seem out of control.

The essence of who we are & the direction of our lives flows out of our hearts, which means everything about us can be affected by what we allow to touch our hearts. Whatever influences us internally will impact the core of who we are, & the direction of our lives—good or bad.

You’re always going to have decisions that you have to make. That’s inevitable. But those decisions don’t need to lead to stress. Instead, you can operate with confidence of God’s wisdom, which in turn will help you live a stressless life by filling you with God’s peace.