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It started in Genesis and continues today, what can Saul teach us about hiding among the baggage?

The Magi and Herod have very different reactions to arrival of Jesus; it shows up in the kind of baggage they carry. What does our baggage say about us?

Many people are unwilling to experience the new things God is trying to do in their lives because of the baggage that keeps them longing for the past. When we wonder, "what if" or "if only," we rob ourselves of the fresh work of God within us that can take us places we cannot imagine.

There are certain things in our lives we simply need to let go of in order to grow in our walk with Christ. These things do not have any place in our life as a Christian. We need to get rid of them and don't let them back in.

Let me ask you a question. Have you ever been gripped by terror? You know the feeling—a shiver down your spine … the hair standing up on the back of your neck … your stomach sinking … your mouth dry. Maybe you were a crime victim—or afraid you might be. Did you know that in today’s crazy society the…

Welcome to week 4 of the series… Baggage. We are all on a trip called life and things happen and we don’t deal with it and it attaches itself to us and that’s what we call baggage. Bags attach themselves us in a couple of places. First place is some mistake you made in the past… guilt and shame. The…

Intro - We are in week three of Baggage. We are all headed somewhere, but many are not enjoying the journey because of all the baggage we carry around. Bags become heavy and ruin the trip for us. Too often we just learn to cope instead of putting down the bags. Today, we will deal with relational wounds…

If you have ever travelled, the main thing I think most people don’t like it all the baggage. We don’t travel light. Whenever you fly, you always have to go to baggage claim. In SA they lost Kathy’s luggage and we had to go buy clothes for her for the 2 weeks we were there. Now, a lot of people who travel,…

Last week, we talked about how to resist the counter attack of the devil. And he will counter attack. 24 “When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, searching for rest. But when it finds none, it says, ‘I will return to the person I came from.’ 25 So it returns and finds that its former…

Intro Baggage Series… Tonight we will talk about the baggage of guilt… or shame. Too many believers struggle with the guilt factor ... It will weigh you down. I don’t know what kind of church experience you had when you were young… it could have been good or bad… and it impacts you today. Some churches…

Good afternoon. I want to invite you to journey with me into a moment of reflection, a moment that draws us into the heart of transformation. Picture, if you will, a small workshop aglow with the gleam of gold, the sparkle of diamonds, and the hum of creativity. Consider a piece of gold, marred by impurities…

summary The prophet Ezekiel has telegraphed the doom of Jerusalem in a series of visual re-enactment signs, visions, and prophetic oracles. Chapters 12-13 continue with more sign acts, but shifts to God’s assessment of objections by the exiles as to the certainty of Jerusalem’s fate. God therefore directs…

Endurance Defined: The ability to continue doing something difficult over a long period of time. Lay Aside Unnecessary Weight Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race…

In making our way through 1 Samuel - it’s been fascinating to me - to see the correlation between - THAT TIME period - and New Testament Paul. Between THAT TIME period - and even now. Last week we looked at - The WAY of the Heart... The Way of the Heart Tastes the Blessings of God Desires to Rule Itself…

Do you know that the Spirituality of Simplicity is the most effective way to accomplish your mission? Let’s look at how Jesus teaches the Spirituality of Simplicity in this passage, and how it can be effective in fulfilling your calling.

Live produces pain, hurt, and trauma. To live means we will be hurt and have pain. We all have traumas we carry. Some may call this baggage. We eye the evil face to face and we call it what it is. Only realists can be forgivers.-Lewis B. Smedes To forgive we must remember differently. This is the main…

Series Intro People often look at happy images of relationships on social media and say, “I want that, ” but they don’t really know what “ that ” is. They don’t know what’s behind that perfect photo. They don’t know that the guy is tired because this is there 17th time posing for this same photo and…

CASKET empty It’s been a while since we were in our Casket Empty series. Actually it’s been over a year. So today, I’m going to give you a 30,000 foot reminder of where we’ve been and where we’re going. Casket Empty is a way of referring to the Old and New Testament and putting them in a context. Casket…

Deconstructing Deconstruction Week 5 of our Hot Topics Series. We polled. You voted. I’m preaching. Perhaps surprisingly, of the 12 topics in the poll, this ranked second in number of votes, and if combined with a similar option (atheism & doubt) it was tied for first in terms of topics you wanted to…

How many of you enjoyed these when you were younger? SLIDE: *Where’s Waldo I used to love these - still do - and enjoy doing these sorts of things with my kids now. What’s the point? To find - Waldo When we would TRY to find Waldo - we went into it KNOWING a couple of things... We KNEW he was in there…

Scripture and taking food, he was strengthened. For some days he was with the disciples at Damascus. And immediately he proclaimed Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.” And all who heard him were amazed and said, “Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem of those who called…

Big Idea of the Message: Fear grows when we feel our inabilities or are anxious about the unknown, but God has promised to protect us and to walk with us through danger. Fear Grows What do you fear the most in life, why do you have that fear - better yet what caused that fear to grow; What is fear; Anxious…

17 Now Samuel called the people together to the Lord at Mizpah. 18 And he said to the people of Israel, “Thus says the Lord , the God of Israel, ‘I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’ 19 But…

The Great Commission Matthew 28:16–20 (ESV) Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “ All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore…