Sermons Christ Community Church: Daytona Beach, FL

As we live a life of faith, we can count on God to know and care for us.

In our text today, James corrects our view and understanding of God, who he is and what he does.

Our pilgrimage is perilous but the Lord is powerful. We must be willing to fight knowing that the Lord is the one who brings victory.

The that we're called to live as children of God requires two things: our faith and God the father's faithfulness.

Hebrews 11:13 tells us that Abraham lived, by faith, as a pilgrim on the earth. God uses his story to teach us how we grow beyond a faith that's theoretical to a faith that is trusting. The better we understand that the more equipped we are to experience life in a relationship with God, get through its difficulties, glorify God, and grow stronger spiritually.

God initiates our pilgrimage of faith.

God in Christ readily gives what he has promised. Therefore, we must know Jesus Christ in order to receive God's promises.

Christians have not always loved one another with a beauty that turns heads. We love safely and comfortably, but not always authentically. We love our doctrine, our traditions, and our preferences. But when it comes to loving one another, we struggle. Because it’s possible to be doctrinally right while relationally wrong, the Apostle Paul gives us some help in Romans 12.

Set your hope fully on the grace that is to come.

In Christ you are called to freedom from the "curse of the law," the crushing constraints of legalistic religion, and to live in love.

...who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification. That's the heart of the gospel for Easter and every day! Jesus was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

No matter how bleak our present circumstances, God’s holy name is the guarantee of all God’s promises. When all is said and done, God’s holy name will be our eternal reason for praise.

The more fully you receive the grace of the cross, the more thoroughly you find the power of hope.

Through the cross Jesus passed the test that Adam and every human fails, and bore the condemnation of our failures to bring us back into covenant with God.

What does it mean to go deeper in times of difficulty?

This morning we’re looking at how a deeper communion with Christ leads to deeper commitment to each other.

This morning we’re looking at how a deeper communion with Christ is deeply connected to a deeper obedience to Christ.

Jesus says fruitful spiritual life comes through deeper communion with him.

What are you building your life on?

The deeper strength you need in life comes from being deeply rooted in the love of Christ.

Firstly, can you have peace with God? Secondly, can you KNOW you have peace with God?

But again and again, we come up against the gravitational pull of our former selves or our current selves. We look into our hearts, and we realize - that thing I was struggling with when I was young, that thing I’ve been praying about for years, I’m still struggling with it now. So, is there any hope of deep and lasting transformation in the Christian life?

: You must walk with integrity because the Lord is coming to destroy evil and bring you home.