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I titled the message “Tough Love”, but in the case of our text this morning, tough love does not mean what people usually mean by it. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with the terminology Tough Love. This is because often times what people mean by tough love is not really love at all. What many people…

As much as we may all want the world to be simple and full of easy decisions, life turns out to be a bit more complicated than that. So, what do we do when tough questions come up that don’t have any easy answers?

Your “Go To” When all else fails what do you fall back on. If life would just always work this way, I’d be: Content Focused Successful Happy _________ Today’s sermon is about the fact that life is not always easy and the question we face is where is God and how do we interact with Him when life goes…

NOTE: This is a manuscript, and not a transcript of this message. The actual presentation of the message differed from the manuscript through the leading of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it is possible, and even likely that there is material in this manuscript that was not included in the live presentation…

Jeremiah had a tough task. He lived at a tough time. He was confident God would help him. Jeremiah had a God of the impossible.

Sometimes faith requires careful discernment. Esther’s faith was challenged with some tough choices; how was she able to discern the right actions to take?

Introduction 27 “But I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you. 29 To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either.…

Intro We have had an interesting couple of years here. First there was a virus we began to hear about and in almost no time, the world shut down. President Trump shut down the borders and had everyone stay home… we along with the rest of the world went into a 2 month lock down… some longer. The isolation…

Right now, we are at a point of growing tired of this Pandemic… It hasn’t gone away like people said it should, but it’s bounced back. Politics has gotten involved and that always messes stuff up. So today, I want us to look at How Faith Make Tough Choices Easier . Think about it. How should you react…

Habakkuk ends his letter with a prayer acknowledging God’s sovereign ways. We may desire to align our will with God’s will, yet often it ends up with an attempt to bend God’s will to line up with my will. Habakkuk shows us how to get it right.

Joke - Priest… Rabbi … Pastor… I am preaching some of the messages we have been preaching because as your pastor, I am concerned with how you are handling all the Trauma of the last 18 months as well as the last 2 months. Covid has changed the world… the way we travel… requirements to go places… Who…

What happens when I don’t like the answer God gives? We all hit points in life when we would rather be the ones making the rules, and Gods calls us back to remember that he is in control—even when it doesn’t feel that way.

17 Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, And there be no herd in the stalls— 18 Yet I will rejoice in the Lord , I will joy in the God of my salvation. Faith…

Introduction Tough Things Jesus Said or Did! Find some things that you think is difficult and shoot them to me this week! You can call, text, e-mail, FaceBook, or mail a letter, Faithlife message me! I want to hear somethings that you things that you think are difficult and we can talk about them! What…

Challenge last week: thank you to those who reached out! You can still send your tough scriptures to me this week if you want to! Question: How often do you find yourselves in awkward situations because you are a Christian? When Jesus came, He brought the message that the kingdom of heaven has come.…

Tough things in the Bible! You all enjoying this series? If not, you will love the next one! If so, you will love the next one! Have you ever been in those situations where you have been completely slapped in the face? Not necessarily literally, but that would work too I suppose! I mean, where you think…

What things do you worry about? Why do we worry about these things? How does worrying help? According to the book: “The Stress-Proof Brain” by Melanie Greenberg- “85% of the things that people worry about never happen” Worrying is something that is natural in all of us! In fact, we are wired to worry!…

Be It Resolved... Introduction Good morning and Happy New Year to you. It’s so good to have you here with us. This morning’s message will be a little different. I want to open the New Year by challenging you to long for the Lord. Go ahead and open your Bibles to Psalm 42 and 43. We’re going to take a…

The Book of Acts, or the book of the spirit. We need to be those that are still following the spirit of God. Many times in acts it says and the spirit says, or to do or to Go Always go to the Scriptures for our answers about Life. Lots of people will tell you there opinions and many has great advice…

Introduction: What would life be like without family? What would life be like without church family? We need both and it is a major blessing to help us get through the difficulties of this life. {Insert Illustration} We are going to take a short journey through the Book of 2 Thessalonians as we worship…

Jesus Christ had finished His work here on earth and ascended to His father in heaven some 18-21 years before this book was written (45-48 AD). The Apostle Paul was already on the scene, was or had spent a year in Antioch and Jerusalem being taught and teaching himself before setting out on his first…

It was her own personal nightmare. Something terrible had happened to her little girl. There was something inside her, something tormenting her, something controlling her. She was under the power of the devil, possessed and afflicted. Her mother couldn't do anything about it. She surely tried. No doubt…

Unbreakable Faith We’ve been looking at the life of Daniel and his friends for the last 4 weeks. They all faced a changing culture that ripped everything they were familiar with away from them then demanded that they change and be like a new culture. Their changing culture demanded that instead of relying…

Tough as Nails Today we are starting a new series we are calling “Unbreakable”. In this series we are going to look at the first few chapters of the book of Daniel. For several weeks now, God has been putting Daniel on my mind. Specifically this early part of his life. As I was preparing for this series…

We have not taken an offering in quite some time - there are offering plates in the back of the sanctuary if you feel lead to give financially to the church and to what God is doing here. We stopped passing those plates around when COVID was starting to be a concern, and found that you are all incredibly…