Freedom Church

Discharge Instructions   C.S. Lewis said "Think of me as a fellow-patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier, could give some advice."   (Ecclesiastes 3:1-3)  "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven…a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build."   Emergency Room         Unresolved yesterdays.  Your Sin...

(Ecclesiastes 3:1,5)  "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven…a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance." Toxic Environments (Matthew 13:3-7)  Then he told them many things in parables, saying: "A farmer went out to sow his seed.  As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.  Some fell...

Recommended Reading Books on Communication:   Cracking the Communication Code: The Secret to Speaking Your Mate's Language By: Dr. Emerson Eggerichs   Coaching Kids: Practical Tips for Effective Communication By: Jim Ward, Ruth Ward   Will the Real Me Please Stand Up: Twenty-Five Guidelines for Good Communication By: John Powell S.J.   Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communi...

Rx for a Healthy Family This is the beginning of a new day.  God has given me this day to use as I will.  I can waste it or use it for good.  What I do today is very important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.  When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving something in its place I have traded for it.  I want it to be a gain, not loss—good, not evil—success, not failure...

Title: A Matter of the Heart (Matthew 19:6-8)  "So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."  "Why then," they asked, "did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?"  Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning." (Pro...

Life Transformation 1 Peter 4:3-6 (NLT)  You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy—their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols. Of course, your former friends are surprised when you no longer plunge into the flood of wild and destructive things they do. So they slander you. But remember that they...

(Mark 16:14-16) Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen. He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.     Why do I love my church?...

(John 14:12)  "I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father." (Philippians 3:10 GN)  "All I want to know is Christ and experience the power of His resurrection." (Romans 8:11)  "And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead w...

(John 14:12)  "I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father." (John 11:1-4)  Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.  This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his fee...

(John 14:12)  "I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father."  (Mark 9:16-24)  "What are you arguing with them about?" (Jesus) asked. A man in the crowd answered, "Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that has robbed him of speech. Whenever it seizes him, it throws...

Theme verse:   (John 14:12)  "I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father." Title of my message:   Walking on Water   (Matthew 14:22-23)  "Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismisse...

(John 14:12-13)  "I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father." (Proverbs 13:12) (NLT) "Hope deferred makes the heart sick.." (John 2:1-3)  "On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the weddin...

A Place to Grow     Every area of our lives presents itself an opportunity to grow.  (Jonah 3:10) "When God saw what they had done and how they had put a stop to their evil ways, he changed his mind and did not carry out the destruction he had threatened." (Jonah 4:1) "But Jonah was greatly displeased and became angry." (Jonah 4:2-3) "He prayed to the LORD, "O LORD, is this not what I said when I...

  (Jonah 3: 1-2) "Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: "Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you."   (Jonah 3: 3-5) "Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very important city—a visit required three days. On the first day, Jonah started into the city. He proclaimed: "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned....

Message Title:  A Place to Think        (Jonah 2:1-2) "From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God. He said: "In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. From the depths of the grave I called for help, and you listened to my cry."   1.      When we cry, God listens (Jonah 2:3) "You hurled me into the deep, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; a...

Message Title: A Place to Hide (Jonah 1:1) "The word of the LORD came to Jonah….." (Jonah 1:2) "Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it…" 1.       He speaks.   Whenever God calls us to do something, it always requires action… 2.       We run.   (Jonah 1:3) "But Jonah ran away from the LORD" (Jonah 1:4) " Then the LORD sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that...

Investing our Lives in People     John 15:12-13 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends   Laying down ones life for his friends.   Missionary goes and invests his life in the lives of others, Why?   Story – 5 Missionaries lost their lives in 1956 trying to reach AUCA or Huaorani   Nate Sai...

Precious in His Sight   "Knowing who we are shapes everything we do."   Belief determines action and action determines outcomes.   (Matthew 14:20-30) Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, but th...

True Colors    What are some of the "Shades we wear?"     1.     Red = Unforgiveness The effects of Unforgiveness: ·        Isolation ·        Stop all contact with people ·        Mindset to never to trust again   2.     Yellow = Fear The effects of Fear: ·        Hesitation ·        Holding back ·        Unwilling to risk 3.     Blue = Pain   The effects of Pain: ·        This is where pain bega...

Relationship Priority: ·        God ·        Spouse (if applicable) ·        Children ·        Extended Family ·        Friends How did it get this way?   (Genesis 1:26) "Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness,…"   (Genesis 1:27) "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."      (Genesis 2:9) "And the LORD God ma...

(Proverbs 29:18)  "Where there is no vision, the people perish…" Vision falls into one of 5 categories: ·        No vision ·        A low vision ·        A wrong vision ·        A vague vision ·        A God vision (Ephesians 3:20 Message)  "God can do anything—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams!" What's our Big Picture? (Farsighted Vision) Put up the l...

(Proverbs 29:18)  "Where there is no vision, the people perish…"     Why have a vision for life?    - A vision for life will bring focus.   (Proverbs 17:24 GN)  "An intelligent person aims at wise action, but a fool starts off in many directions." - A vision for life will bring endurance.   (Ecclesiastes 2:11)  "Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, every...

I'll be Home for Christmas (Luke 2:4)  "So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David."   (Luke 2:8)  "And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night."   (Matthew 2:1)  "After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Her...

Joy to the World   (Luke 2:8-10)  "And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.  An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.  But the angel said to them, 'Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.'"   (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 4)  "There is a...

(Psalm 51:7 NLT) "Purify me from my sins, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow." (1 John 4:9-10)  "This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.  This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins."   (1 John 4:11)  "Dear friends, since God so...