Sermons Christ Community Church: Daytona Beach, FL

In a culture without the fear of God, to live as God's pilgrim children must be our firm resolve.

God does what is right because that’s who he is. Because God does what is right, the way he rules is right. Because God does what is right, his words are right.

We’re going to look at Genesis 18 through the lens of where the story ends up in Genesis 21 and see this idea of the better laughter as a theme for what faith can look like in our lives.

It is God Almighty who gives us His promises and calls us to our pilgrimage.

The God who looks after us will do what he has told us he will do. Therefore, we can and should trust him to care for us his way.

One thing that makes the Bible so relevant to us all is that it speaks, what are sometimes surprising truths, to issues that are very much still at play today. How do you get right with God? What can most powerfully motivate you to live for God?

God's strengthens fearful believers with covenant promises. We can take our fears to him and trust in him.

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.