Sunday Sermons

To truly love our neighbors like Jesus commands, our ultimate motive must be to love them, not just to “convert” them.

Jesus commanded His followers to “love your neighbor”. Doing this requires making room in your heart and life for those who may be far from God, especially your literal neighbors.

Jesus called His followers to love their neighbors. When it comes to loving our neighbors, barriers naturally arise. The barriers can be time, fear, and apathy. Followers of Jesus are called to be light in this world and must overcome these barriers to reach others with the hope of Jesus.

Jesus calls His followers to love their neighbors. When Jesus was asked what the greatest commandment was (of the 600+ Old Testament commandments), he responded, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.” What if we truly loved our actual neighbor...

The fifth catalyst God uses to fuel our faith is Personal Ministry. Personal Ministry positions us to experience God’s Power in our weakness and His faithfulness in response to our acts of faith. When we do what only we can by having a primary ministry, God does what only He can do and transforms our faith, church, and world through our church.

The fourth catalyst God uses to fuel our faith is Providential Relationships. God uses people to transform our faith. When someone helps our faith grow, providential is the best word to describe them. However, Providential Relationships can’t be manufactured, but we can create the potential for them to form and flourish.

The third catalyst God uses to fuel our faith is pivotal circumstances. The circumstances of life (especially the negative ones) act as pivots; they will cause us to either pivot toward or away from God. When we pivot toward Him, our faith grows. When we don’t, our faith erodes.

The second catalyst God uses to fuel our faith is Private Spiritual Discipline. What’s true about all private spiritual disciplines is that they help grow our relationship with Jesus in a way that nothing else does; and as our relationship with Jesus grows, so does our faith.

Our faith grows, not just by accumulating more knowledge or believing, but by following Jesus one next step at a time.

God wants to grow our trust in Him, because as trust goes so goes the relationship.  Having unshakable, trust and faith in God is possible, but not by accident.

The best way to protect your marriage is to practice the promises you made when you said “I do”.