Boulder Creek Community Church

"Be angry"! Anger is love in motion… it’s a response to defend someone or something that is threatened! When your child is threatened by someone trying to hurt them or violate them, a normal healthy response is to be angry! Anger is commanded! Ephesians 4:26-27 – 26 “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, 27 nor give place to the devil.” John Chrysostom (pastor in the...

There are different ways of dealing with anger... 1. Some people think they have NO anger... but they are in denial. 2. Some people have BLOW anger and they erupt when triggered 3. But the emotionally intelligent way to deal with anger is to be SLOW to anger. What's the opposite of anger...? It's not NO Anger... (to have a short fuse). But patience. (to have a long fuse). Do you have a short fuse...

Stephen Mealing

III. Pray your tears! The psalms are raw... real... But what’s important to see here that David runs to his connection to God! Friends are vital! Living in community is critical!! But… we must go to God to! Take your tears to your heavenly Father! a. Pray in light of God’s love. The beauty of the Psalms… God’s love remains… Even when you are not theologically correct… Psalm 39:12 "Lord, hear my pr...

Psalm 126 – 5 Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. 6 Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them. ** Don’t waste your sorrows… See your tears as an opportunity for growth. You can’t stuff them… you get no fruit! You can’t just walk outside and dump a pile of seeds! No fruit! Look beneath the surface! What’s going on…? W...

Luke 13:1-9 Jesus dispels two wrong ways to respond to tragedy... Blame ourselves... or blame God. The paradox of the Christian life is that we are more sinful than we can bear, and more loved than we can comprehend. The cross helps us hold these two realities in our hearts at the same time, and they keep us from becoming proud... and they keep us from being crushed and losing heart when tragedy s...

Expect tears in life... Xians have a little mythical belief... If I am a good boy/girl then God will protect me from pain in this life! Book of Job!! Job 16 – 20 My friends scorn me; My eyes pour out tears to God. Not all pain is because you have done something wrong!! Jesus a man of sorrows! And he walked in lived perfectly with the father! Interesting metaphor for salvation… Ezekiel 36:26 – 26 I...

The inner life is often ignored... and we often don't know how to manage our emotions in an intelligent and productive way. Some stuff them... others express them irresponsibly. But there's a 3rd way... a better way... pray them!

Daniel 3:14-30 13 Furious with rage, Nebuchadnezzar summoned Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. So these men were brought before the king, 14 and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the image of gold I have set up? 15 Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, if you ar...

In a funk...?

Philippians 4:11-13 - I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. 12 I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. 13 For I can do everything through Christ,[d] who gives me strength.

“Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.” ‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭4:12‬ ‭NIV “In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though...

The Christians relationship to the government - Part 4

The Christians relationship with the government - Part 3

Christians relationship to the government.

Christians relationship to the government.

8.11.2020 - The Christians relationship to the government. We can and will disagree as Christians, but we are Christians first! 1 Peter 2:9-12 - 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a [special] people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies [the wonderful deeds and virtues and perfections] of Him who called you out of darkness into His...

Commedian Michael Jr. on Forgiveness

Seeing Jesus in the Book of Daniel

Bryce Jessup

Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.