Sermons Christ Community Church: Daytona Beach, FL

The logical connection is this: the more contentment we experience in Christ, the less we feel we need materials things to be content. So our grip on money loosens. We realize we don’t need those things to be happy, so we’re happy to give them away to others. Contentment leads to giving.

We can be confident Christ will strengthen us because He is faithful to complete His work in us.

Contentment does not depend on WHAT we have, WHERE we go, WHAT we DO, or WHO WE ARE.

Even when we're well taught about the Christian life, we have to work at resilient perseverance.

We have both the opportunity and responsibility to develop our thinking in godly ways.

The object of prayer; the outline of prayer; the outcome of prayer.

Rejoicing in the Lord is a vital part of what we do together when we worship.

What do YOU do when you have a strong difference of opinion with someone at church? Well Paul does three things I’d like us to emulate: He entreats them both; He calls for mediation between them; He asks them both to “agree in the Lord.”

What we learn in this passage is that it is a sad and sorrowful thing that there are people in this world who are enemies of the cross of Christ, and some Christians are in serious danger of drifting off with them – joining them in a lifestyle as dishonoring to God as it is futile and empty. This reality breaks Paul's heart. It reduces him to tears... it is out of those tears that he calls us to l...

It’s sometimes said that seeing is believing. Baptism helps us to see and to believe. It helps us to SEE something that might otherwise go unseen, and in seeing it, we are helped to believe.