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Read through the parable of the sower and you’ll see three different categories of worldly ideas that will choke out the Word of God: cares of this world, deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things. This week, Pastor Mac focused in on how the cares of this world will choke your faith. That includes both the distractions of this world as well as fear-based anxiety and worry that will ke...

After the Word of God is planted in hearts that are not hard or stony, the Word has the opportunity to grow and produce fruit. However, the cultivating of soil doesn’t stop there. In order to reach the harvest of God-ideas that the Word can produce, we must be aware of weed seeds. Weed seeds are worldly ideas that are counter to the Word of God. Weed seeds will choke out the truth of God’s Word. I...

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Mysteries of the Kingdom 14 | Imagination | Mac Hammond | Living Word Christian Center The seed of God’s Word is a powerful and valuable creator in our lives, but it cannot be planted and left alone. If so, it will be choked out by weed seeds or hardened through the heat of adversity. That’s why we must learn how to put down deep roots. We can do that through our imagination. When we use our imagi...

God wants you to have a life that is filled with peace and comfort. That doesn’t mean it will be easy or without adversity. God will bring you peace in the middle of the storm and despite the difficulty that life brings. One way you can ensure you have God’s peace in your life is through cultivating the garden of your heart. Pray for hard areas to be softened, and then meditate on the Word of God....

Since sowing the seed of God’s Word into people’s lives is the source of our harvest in life, we need to know how this actually happens. Pastor Mac explained this past weekend that seed is found in the fruit, so if we don’t have fruit in our lives, we can’t plant seed in the hearts of other people. Cultivating a good harvest starts by cultivating the soil of our own hearts to provide a healthy pla...

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This weekend, Pastor Mac was back from vacation, ready to minister truths from the God’s Word about Mysteries of the Kingdom. This week, he talked about the mystery of sowing and reaping. This principle helps us identify where certain problems—and good things!—come from. People are quick to blame the enemy when they see adversity in their lives, but sometimes problems come from the seed they have...

Look back through history and you’ll see that with every season of life, God continues to unveil truth to His people. He is drawing people to Him, teaching them about faith, healing, prosperity, and love. Through all these seasons, we need to become more and more concerned about what God is doing rather than what we are doing. It’s easy to focus on what we are doing. Whether it’s our sin we are tr...

God has forgiven you completely. Keep that truth central in your thinking. Too many times, people think that God will turn His back on them after they sin. They ignore the gift of God’s mercy and undeserved favor. God, however, wants each one of us to live with His free gift of righteousness central in our thinking. As we are quick to remember and receive God’s forgiveness of sins, we can also be...

Dads make a difference. They can provide stability, comfort, and strength to their families and communities—or as guest speaker Robert Madu put it this past weekend, they can be like trees planted in the ground. We need more men who don’t allow the winds of this world to break them or the enemy to chop them down. We need more men who are planted, stable, and secure. Even more so, we need men who a...

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Too many Christians focus on sin so much that they forget they were forgiven. They hold grudges and keep count of wrongs because they forget that God freely forgave them and enables them to freely forgive others. The laws of the Old Testament weren’t given so that we could fall on our knees in sorrowful repentance every time we break a law. They were given to expose our sinfulness and show our ina...

In today’s society, truth has become hard to identify. That’s why it is important that we recognize the Word of God is our benchmark, our marker on which truth is found. That’s what guest minister Pastor Russell Kalenberg talked about this past weekend. He provided five ways in which the Word of God can be a standard in our lives that cannot be moved; this standard is a solid foundation on which o...

We will always be more at peace when we keep Christ central in our thinking. When we keep Christ central, we know that our sins are forgiven. We are free to forgive others. We will recognize that shame doesn’t have to stay in our lives for God’s forgiveness is full and complete. This is what Pastor Jim reminded us of this past weekend. Staying conscious of our righteousness will remind us that we...

The sacrifice that Jesus made for you is enough to cover your every sin. There is nothing you can do that will make you unworthy to receive God’s grace. God does not look at you through the lens of all of your actions. He sees you as He saw Jesus, sinless before Him. This past weekend, Pastor Jim reminded us that the less we focus on ourselves, the more we can focus on Jesus and what He did for us...

God is a God of order. He does not create chaos. In fact, He ordained offices of authority within various realms of humanity that will help keep chaos and anarchy at bay. Why would anyone step outside of those laws and choose to create chaos? Why would anyone choose anarchy over peace? What can we do to prevent lawlessness in our family, our city, and our nation? These are the questions surroundin...

God longs to reach people who are looking for a Savior. As Jesus shared in His parable about the lost sheep, when 99 sheep are safely sleeping for the night, He will leave them alone to go find one lost sheep. This past weekend, guest minister Nick Hall stirred our faith about just how much God cares for those who don’t yet know Him—even if that includes you—and encouraged us to reach out to those...

Why don’t Christians look like Jesus? Pastor Jim talked about this question this past weekend. Too many times, we allow self-righteousness to permeate our opinions and our attitudes. As a result, we walk through life with a judgmental attitude, assuming that we know the right paths to take and we know which people are right and wrong. However, judging others wasn’t what God called us to do as Chri...

Knowledge of God’s will comes to us in two ways: through the Word of God (His generic will for everybody) and through the Holy Spirit (His specific will for individuals). This weekend, Pastor Mac talked about God’s will for unity within the body of Christ and how vital it is for us to leave behind disagreements and focus on the mission God has given us to reach the world. Then, not only did we get...

God has a specific plan for your life. He has a vision for how your gifts, talents, and personality will work together to bring more people into the kingdom of God. He knows what jobs will fit you best, the people you need in your life, and the path to walk to fulfill the dreams He has placed in your heart.    God won’t show you everything He knows at once, but He will show you glimpses of your fu...

Your life as a Christian wouldn’t be the same if Jesus hadn’t risen from the dead. His resurrection is what makes Christianity come alive. That’s what we celebrated this past weekend: Jesus’ victory over death. Jesus’ sacrifice has redeemed us from life as usual. We’ve been redeemed unto resurrection power. This power can touch our lives in every area. We’ve been given victory over the touch of de...

Some people assume God’s protection over godly people means that suffering should not be a part of godly people’s lives. However, that is not the case. As Pastor Mac pointed out this past weekend, godliness is a mystery and it does involve suffering. Jesus exemplified this mystery by leaving heaven to come to earth and display both God’s royalty and majesty, as the people praised Him for on Palm S...

The moment you enter into God’s kingdom, you receive “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” What exactly does that mean? As Pastor Mac talked about this past weekend, “glory” refers to the manifestation of God. Since God is nothing but good and He is the King of glory, the most succinct definition of God’s glory is the manifestation of God’s goodness. When we enter into God’s kingdom, we receive “Chr...