Practicing Fasting | To Grow in Holiness
Sermon Scripture: Matthew 6:16-18, Romans 12:1-2 When we fast, at least four things are happening in our body and soul; it’s weaning us off the pleasure principle, it’s revealing what’s in our heart, it’s re-ordering
Practicing Fasting | Offering Ourselves to God
Sermon Scripture: Matthew 6:16-18, Romans 12:1-2 When we fast FROM food or activities we also fast TO something. We fast TO Jesus. After all, hunger only results when you long for something more of what
Practicing Prayer | Being With God
Sermon Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 In prayer, we learn with quiet confidence that God is at work building a place for himself in our hearts and mind. This is not done by painful deconstruction of
Practicing Prayer | Listening To God
Sermon Scripture: John 10:2-5, Deuteronomy 6:4-5 As we mature, we begin to pray our own words, but in time, we desire not just to speak to God, but to listen to God — to hear
Practicing Prayer | Talking With God
Sermon Scripture: Luke 11:5-13 This week we will be focusing on talking WITH God, which simply means, “sharing with God what is on our mind.” In this, our prayers will include a few critical elements.
Practicing Prayer | Talking TO God
Sermon Scripture: Luke 11:1-8 Jesus did all sorts of amazing things, but the disciples do not ask Jesus to teach them how to heal the sick, or to cast out demons, or perform miracles. They
Practicing Sabbath | WORSHIP
Sermon Scripture: Matthew 12:1-8 The sabbath is a means by which we enter into what Jesus called “the kingdom, or the reign, of God.” It’s a day when God’s will is done on earth as
Practicing Sabbath | DELIGHT
Sermon Scripture: Isaiah 58:13-14 Many of us have yet to learn how to enjoy God… believe in him, yes, learn from him, yes, obey him even, but delight in him? In the access we have
Practicing Sabbath | REST
Sermon Scripture: Deuteronomy 5:12-15 The Bible gives us 2 versions of the 1st Commandment on the Sabbath. At Sinai, Sabbath is about rhythm, In Deuteronomy, it’s about resistance. We work more than ever before, we
Practicing Sabbath | STOP
Sermon Scripture: Matthew 11:28-30, Exodus 20:8-11 Flip through any popular magazine, watch any show, scroll on you phone, and you will see all sorts of advertisements; a couple drinking coffee and reading the morning newspaper