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Today we’re going to look at some examples from Jesus. Turn in your Bibles to Luke 14 for our first example of humility in a social setting.

Jesus is the quintessential example of humility because as Philippians states, though he was God, he did not consider equality with God something to be used for his own advantage. But made himself nothing, humbled himself, and allowed himself to be killed on a cross by humans. He gave up his life so that you and I could be forgiven and free. In other words, he used his power and authority to love,...

Pastor Sam guides us through the 4 movements of the passion narrative. Prepare your hearts, grab a journal and spend time with the Lord. Be sure to pause if you need a little more time for reflection or prayer in between sections.

The external posture of humility indicates the internal heart's posture, which is a heart posture that fundamentally lacks awareness. Pride is a confused heart, confused on who is the Creator and who is the created. This confusion comes from a complete lack of self-awareness. Since humility is the antidote to pride, that must mean that humble people are self-aware people.

It is simply a terrible idea to allow pride to reside and go undisturbed in your life, in your attitudes, and in your style of relating. We have to locate and seek to illuminate pride, as the first step in learning to recognize it in your life. So, I’ve asked you to be making this a matter of prayer. And we’ve been looking at examples in the Bible to help us see it’s destructive, poisonous affects...

There is such a thing as appropriate pride. To be sure, pride is predominantly condemned in the Bible. However, there are a few instances where pride is used positively. In Deuteronomy 32:29, God is called Israel’s pride. And Israel is referred to as God’s pride and joy in Isaiah 60:15. Over and over in the Bible, God calls us to rid our lives of pride and all its expressions because it poisons al...

What would you say if I told you there was one sin, one vice that if with God’s help, you could purge out of your life, you could lessen your struggles with every other sin? What would you say if I told you there was one sin, one vice, that if with God’s help you could purge out of your system, you could improve every relationship in your life? If you purged this one vice, this one sin out of your...

We live in a broken world, don’t we? Pain, hurts, wounds are all part of what it means to live here. There is no such thing as a pain free life. Pain is inevitable and it’s universal. Following Jesus doesn’t mean all your pain is going away. Jesus doesn’t remove all the pain in life, He transforms it. He gives meaning to it. He gives purpose to it. Through Him, you can see the significance of your...

Today, I want to talk to you about how to end the race well – the Growth Choice. That’s the seventh choice we’re going to look at in this message today. “I reserve a daily time with God for Bible reading, self-examination and prayer in order to know God and his will for my life and to gain the power to follow his will.” The Growth Choice says this: “I reserve a daily time with God for Bible readin...

Most all of us have a few, if not more, relationships that are in disrepair. As we go through life, we have painful experiences with people—we’ve sinned against them, or they against us. If we’re not careful, we can build walls to try and keep the pain out, to keep ourselves from being hurt again. When we do that, we end up locking ourselves in a prison and locking other people out. To rebuild rel...

Today, we're going to look at the fifth beatitude, which is: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness sake…" While this is the fifth beatitude that we are examining in v. 6. We will be looking at it from Jacob's perspective in Genesis 31 a

The first way we let God do his work in our life is by doing a little housecleaning in our heart and soul. This choice is where the rubber meets the road for many of us. We are all fine and dandy when it comes to mentally understanding that we aren’t God and that God can do his healing work in us and that we are willing to let him do that.

if you are a Jesus follower, meekness is not optional. Let me demonstrate to you what I mean. Meek in greek is praeis, which carries different levels of meaning. On the surface, it can mean mild or humble. But there’s a deeper meaning to this word, and it’s the one I want to focus on today. In Greek, the word praeis was often used to describe animals whose natural wild spirit had to be broken by a...

That gets us to the second choice in our series. The second choice is in Jesus' second Beatitude. Look at Matthew 5:4. 4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. The second choice is the hope choice. It is the choice to earnestly believe that God exists, that you matter to him, and that he has the power to help you change. It's based on this Beatitude - Matthew 5:4. "Blessed are th...

One of the games that really stressed me out was Whack-a-Mole. Does anybody remember this game? Whack-a-Mole. In Whack-a-Mole these moles pop up out of holes. You take a rubber club, and you try to knock the moles back down. As soon as you slam one down, what happens? Another one comes up. Then you slam that one down and two come up. You slam that one down and three come up. It goes on and on and...

Throughout history, the Israelites and Christians have endured the darkness of this world through persecution from governments, wars, plagues, famines, the list goes on and on about the level of darkness in this world. I mean it’s no different today. We have people in our church family here who have endured six wars in their lifetime, the Great Depression, the 80s! Talk about a dark time! From the...

The culmination of our Christmas Series is here! The true meaning of Christmas is unveiled in the person of Jesus Christ. Join us as our worship team and pastors join together in song and conversation looking at what the hope of Jesus means in our current context.

As we unveil Christmas, today we will be unwrapping the advent of love. I cannot think of a more misconstrued topic. There is a lot of confusion out there today as to what love is. Some say love is a feeling, an emotion that rises out from within us. Others confuse it with compassion or an absence of judgment. There are so many ideas about love.

Joy is a feeling called forth by well-being, success, or good fortune. A person automatically experiences it because of certain favorable circumstances. It cannot be commanded. Joy includes happiness, contentment, satisfaction but is not limited to those things. On the other hand, Joy as an Action can be engaged in regardless of how a person feels.

Today we light the second candle: the Candle of Peace. It’s amazing the power that that little, five-letter word carries. It’s something that everyone longs for because we live in a world that desperately needs it!

Life is full of winter seasons and challenges; nevertheless hope! What an amazing concept. It stands in this text as a signal of grace! It broke into their hopelessness with a promise of mercy! It declared God’s committed love for his people then and it still speaks hope to us today.

This Thanksgiving week we have the perfect opportunity to practice thanksgiving and model it for those in our lives. The scripture is filled with instructions to be thankful and filled with examples of great men and women of God being thankful and expressing that in a regular and ongoing way, to God and to each other.

This week, we come to a passage that is really heavy on application. If you are the kind of person that likes to come to Church on Sunday morning and just wants to be told what to do, this is the Sunday for you. If you want to cut through the doctrine and the theology and all that fluff and just talk about what we are supposed to do, this is it. Paul is getting to the end of his letter to the Phil...

Some of you may have noticed that when our hearts are at peace with God and at peace with key relationships in our lives, we can navigate the stresses of life much, much better. Staying heart connected with Jesus and with one-another provides the needed elasticity to flex and bend with the crazies of life without letting them break us.

The crazy culture that the Philippians faced is similar to the crazy culture we face today. A culture torn apart by conceit, pride, and selfishness. Paul calls/commands the Christians to change their ways and conduct of living to not reflect the world in all its pride but to reflect Christ in all his humility demonstrated in the gospel of his sacrifice.