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Big Idea - Grumbling and complaining undermine the grace of God and poison the heart. Scripture - Exodus 16 , Numbers 11 , James 1 INTRO: Humans are interesting creatures, we tend to become focused on the negative more than the positive - just look at our newspapers, TV news, any information services…

Join Pastor Matt & the Christ-followers at Charity as we Turn Grumbling into Gifting - The art of Thanksgiving

Religion leads to grumbling, glorying the past and fearfully mistrusting God in the present; where as relationship leads to gratitude, glorifying God and faithfully trusting Him in the present.

Exodus Chapter 16 Good morning everyone. I am going to be continuing our series through Exodus today! It is always a joy getting to preach the word of God to you on Sunday mornings. I am really excited for today’s story and my prayer has been that the Lord would speak to you. Let’s begin our time by…

Introduction: Last week we began walking through this passage, Philippians 2:12-18 and its very practical implications from the previous week’s deeply theological passage. I told a story about how I used to play football and had learned that you always play till you heard the whistle blow. I related…

The Bible tells us that the gentle actions of those who follow Jesus shine like stars in a dark world.

1 They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. 2 And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses…

I recently went in to see my dear friends Ed & Sue. We watched a movie together. If you ever get to see the movie, “The World’s Fastest Indian”, see it. You may ask, why did we watch it? It’s not about an indian- it’s about an Indian. An Indian Motorcycle That is Burt Munro’s 1920 Indian Scout. It had…

Evening 8 Oct 23

Broadly in this series of sermons we are talking about the need for patient endurance in our obedience. Last week I used the illustration of not only loosing weight, but keeping or maintaing that weight loss. After the sermon I was talking with a brother and he shared another good illustration of our…

We’re saved by grace to show of God’s glory and goodness by loving God and Our neighbors.

What’s The Big Deal about our Obedience? When I was growing up as kids me and my sister when not obeying our parents would often quote the passage in Ephesians 6:1 , “Children obey your parents.” If my sister Candy saw that I was doing something disobedient should would tell me this verse and I would…

Me: Grumbling and complaining undermine the grace of God and poison the heart. The movie Grumpy Old Men - I wanted at a clip but they where all way to inappropriate for a sermon Another favorite is the two old codgers from the muppet show. My coworker at Vienna says that us. We love to laugh at this…

I believe: The church is plagued with dissatisfaction. The church is focusing more on being welcoming and entertaining than it is on worshiping God. The culture is pushing back on Christianity with such force that we must purify and reform ourselves, else be found to be hypocrites. Read 2 Peter 2 . 11…

GOSPEL Matthew 20:1-16 Sermon Notes/Introduction The goal of the sermon is that we will be happy that God is so generous to all. The problem is that we sometimes live more under Law than under grace and do our share of pharisaic grumbling about others receiving more than we. The means to the goal is…

An Appeal to Obedience and Humility (2:12-13) Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things…

Victory What a great series this has been thus far. I think there may be a few more. May we have some quick reminders. Faith is a victory picture here Victory overcoming sin . Victory overcoming anxiety , boredom , depression and despair . Faith is a confident belief in Jesus Christ that can give us…

How do we continually put on the mindset of Jesus? How do we grow in the area of sacrificial gospel ministry?

Some have called James the Wisdom literature / Proverbs of the NT - 50 imperatives in 108 verses Jesus name only mentioned twice (1:1 & 2:1) NKJV Study Bible intro to James “Compared to other NT writers, James says little about Christ, and yet his speech is virtually saturated with allusions to the teaching…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 5, Session 1, © 2018 LifeWay Christian Resources Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., Feb. 2022. A Test in the Wilderness Summary and Goal God had delivered His people out of slavery in Egypt…

There was a boy who asked a girl to the school dance… She agreed… so he went to rent a tux, but the rental store had a long line… so he waited and waited, and finally got his suit… Then he decided to get flowers, but the flower shop had a long line… so he waited and waited, and finally, got his flowers……

Trust 5 The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.” How quickly the people forget about whips and oppression - about making bricks without straw. As God sets them…

What is your favorite kind of bread? Any homemade bread fans out there? According to one website that I found, there are over 200 different kinds of bread in the world... And these are just known, identified kinds.. This doesn’t count all the different kinds bakers may experiment with! People love bread…

Intro: biblical counseling: questions about our parents to learn from their strengths and weaknesses re: marriage Paul is continuing his argument about Christian liberty and he will eventually return to the problem of the Corinthian church in regards to them abusing their liberty. Catch up: We have observed…

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…