This is the third part of our “Old Habits Die Hard” sermon. Remember, YOU are the church. You are the church at Walmart. You are the church in your workplace. You are the church when you are driving down Hope Mills road. You don’t stop being the church. Do people see Jesus in your life?…
Why is change so difficult? Why is it so hard to break old habits? Our pride hinders us from seeing our sin, our hardness of heart, and our utter brokenness. Tomorrow we’ll continue our #EXILES series in 1 Peter as we look at part 1 of “Old Habits Die Hard” 1 Peter 2:1-12.
One of my favorite movies growing up was Back To The Future with Michael J. Fox. It’s one of those movies that all the kids of the 80’s rave about. It’s about a small-town California teen, Marty McFly, who is thrown back into the ’50s when an experiment by his eccentric scientist friend, Doc Brown,…
If you haven’t noticed, the world can be a pretty hostile place to live… especially for a follower of Jesus. What are we to do? Worry? Whine? Cry foul… or have pity parties for ourselves? Do we sell everything we have and move to Montana in hopes that Jesus will return soon to rescue us…
If you haven’t noticed, the world can be a pretty hostile place to live… especially for a follower of Jesus. What are we to do? Worry? Whine? Cry foul… or have pity parties for ourselves? Do we sell everything we have and move to Montana in hopes that Jesus will return soon to rescue us…
In the first and second week of our 2016 Advent series, we’ve looked at the significance of three trees… the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the tree of life, and the tree that was used to build the manger. In each of those gatherings we opened two gifts: the gift of choice…
How do you handle suffering? What do you do when your world is flipped upside-down? How does the Mechanical Christian react to suffering? In James 5:7-12, James now turns his attention from the rich oppressors to the poor who were being oppressed. Job tell us that “Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly…