Sermons, sermon helps
This is a collection of material from pastors of churches over 1,000 (COK). These resources are made available to help pastors with sermon ideas and content.
He is not here.….He is risen!…...these words changed the course of history forever. Jesus is ALIVE! Death and the grave could not hold Him! Jesus’ resurrection provided a dawn of a new day. We are promised through His resurrection power new beginnings, New hope, New Peace and new Power. Jesus is inviting us into His resurrection life, we can be ALIVE with Jesus.
Alive
He is not here.….He is risen!…...these words changed the course of history forever. Jesus is ALIVE! Death and the grave could not hold Him! Jesus’ resurrection provided a dawn of a new day. We are promised through His resurrection power new beginnings, New hope, New Peace and new Power. Jesus is inviting us into His resurrection life, we can be ALIVE with Jesus.
Mark 16:6 (NIV) 6 "Don't be alarmed," he said. "You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him.
Better Together... is really our way of talking about what Jesus calls, in these stories, the Kingdom of Heaven.
He tells these stories because they are a simple way to help people grasp what is really big, maybe even bigger than any of us realize.
Life hurts and cuts, and you bleed. You are left with permanent hurt. Sometimes, there are memories and wounds that just won't go away. Abuse. Depression. Tragedy. Death. Addiction. So what are you going to do? Faith in God doesn't prevent us from having scars like these. In fact, our Lord we follow was pretty scarred himself. But you gotta keep dancing. Through Jesus, we are given access to a living faith and hope and joy and peace and love that gives us power to keep dancing, to embrace scars and know that they don't define or destroy us.
Dancing with the Scars
Life hurts and cuts, and you bleed. You are left with permanent hurt. Sometimes, there are memories and wounds that just won't go away. Abuse. Depression. Tragedy. Death. Addiction. So what are you going to do? Faith in God doesn't prevent us from having scars like these. In fact, our Lord we follow was pretty scarred himself. But you gotta keep dancing. Through Jesus, we are given access to a living faith and hope and joy and peace and love that gives us power to keep dancing, to embrace scars and know that they don't define or destroy us.
Sometimes we take selfies to portray to the world who we are! Did God ever take a selfie? Yes, He did just that in Exodus 34 when Moses asked God for a revelation of himself. God showed Moses His glory by giving him a verbal self-description that is unique among all Bible passages. In this self-description, God selects 8 characteristics that He wants to be known by. Let’s study God’s “selfie” and learn how we can better understand who God is so we can better relate to Him and more clearly share him with others.
God’s selfie
(or another modern illustration of God’s description of Himself)
You are what you love…but you may not love what you think you love.
You are what you love…but you may not love what you think y
What We Believe
Think of the story of the Bible like this:
Relationship Status
Relationship Status
You have heard the phrase “Facebook Official,” which means you are not really in a relationship until it is indicated in your status on Facebook. You can say your single, in a relationship, or even it’s complicated. The way culture defines relationships can be radically different from what God designed or desires. In this series, we want to explore your relationship status!
Week one: Status confusion
During Jesus' ministry, we see many times where Jesus taught while sharing a meal. In fact, there are 10 different accounts of Jesus eating with various people in the gospel of Luke. These encounters left an eternal impact on those in His audience and on us as well. What can we learn as we take a seat at the table and experience Jesus' heart, responses, and His teachings?
Table Manners
During Jesus' ministry, we see many times where Jesus taught while sharing a meal. In fact, there are 10 different accounts of Jesus eating with various people in the gospel of Luke. These encounters left an eternal impact on those in His audience and on us as well. What can we learn as we take a seat at the table and experience Jesus' heart, responses, and His teachings?
Sometimes we try to convince ourselves that the busyness of life…”The Grind”, will somehow slow down after this season. However, we tend to discover that every season of life brings its own challenges, and can leave us feeling overwhelmed. That is NOT the life God intended for us! In fact, he has given us the gift of rest to give us a healthier rhythm to our lives. Join us each weekend as we discover together how to create S P A C E within a world that demands so much of our attention.
You cannot, NOT have conflict! Our fallen nature is prone to failings, fallouts, and false assumptions. Living the Christian life is not a life where we avoid conflict, it is living a life where we know how to navigate our relationships through conflict. In fact, conflict can...
You are what you love…but you may not love what you think you love. Sometimes what we think and say we want isn’t what we actually want. Our actions and habits reveal the true desires of our hearts. Hidden Heart is about rediscovering our first loves and developing habits + practices that help shape
