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We continue on our journey to understand our identity. The point to this is to give you an understanding of value. Not a puffed up vain sense of value that has it’s roots in the idolatrous notion of self-esteem where we look at ourselves and try to puff ourselves up. But in looking at ourselves through…

Sacrificing for Soup Before we get started I want to warn you that you might get hungry today because we will be talking about food quite a bit. Today we are continuing the “Identity” series. Last week we kicked it off by talking about the identity crisis we face on a daily basis. Every day we are faced…

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”…

Unexpected Blessing We’ve been following Jacob in this series about identity. Jacob struggled with a bit of an identity crisis from before the time he was born. His brother, Esau, didn’t put much stock in his identity and actually sold his own birth right as first born son for a bowl of beans. Last week…

In The Middle of Nowhere The title of the message today is “In the Middle of Nowhere”. It makes me think about a story about a guy who went on a hiking trip in the mountains on his vacation… Before heading into the wilderness, he stops at a small town general store to get some supplies. After picking…

MY NAME IS: ? Today we will finish the Identity series. This has been a fun series where we have studied “Identity” through the experiences of Jacob and his family. They all faced varying degrees of an identity crisis at some point in their lives just like we face an identity crisis in our lives today.…

Story of two believers Theology matters Ephesians 1:11-14 Perseverance of the saints What it is Romans 4:21 21 fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. Simply speaking, perseverance of the saints, is believing that God is able to do what He said He would do. It is having faith that…

I have another dad joke for you this morning to kick off today’s topic. Someone once said, “ I am very upset with my mom. When I was growing up she told me, ‘You can be whoever you want to be.’ That’s not true. Turns out Identity Theft is a crime! ” Today we are starting a new series called “Identity”.…

Issue of Identity Did you know that we’re soon set to reach a world population of 8 billion people? When I checked the world population clock this morning, we were at 7 billion, 970 million, 555 thousand, and counting. That’s getting pretty close to 8 billion! Imagine if you had that amount of money…

God cares more about who you are than about who others think you are.

18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” 19 Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called…

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him…

Ten I am Statements 7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced…

How would you define love? There was a movie made by Disney over 14 years ago, with a song called: How does she know that you love her. How does someone show love? I realize that I am late to the ball game for this sermon. Every September or October, I set aside a week to prepare my preaching calendar…

We are being charged to walk out the words given to us. Is prophesy a road map in our lives? Is what Jesus says you are a road map for your life? 18 “I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. Jesus calls Simon who he…

Good morning church Announcements: Next Saturday - Youth Fundraiser, Couples dinner Tonight - Youth Group Wednesday Night - Children and Adult Bible Study Pray - Preach. We know the church is to behave as a hospital for sinners. Sometimes we look more like a nursing home, other times we look more like…

10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” 11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.…

Peter’s walk through identity. 13 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He was asking His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.” 15 He said to them,…

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself…

4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us…

When you realize whose you are, you realize who you are. When you realize who you are, you realize your purpose. 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.…

Not in spite of, but through every part of your story. I was talking to God and I told in spite of me, He will work out my life. I heard Him say back not just in spite of but in every part of your life I will work it out. The overwhelming sense I got, was that in all my mistakes and in all the times…

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself…

1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires…

Jesus was called by many names. Rabi / Teacher Son of David Son of man Messiah Christ You identity does not come from what others call you it comes from what Father calls you. Jesus became fully man so we can follow His lead as human kind. Jesus went through a process of identity too: 17 and behold,…