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Overcoming the Curse of Comparing Today we are starting a new series based on another LC series called “Overcomer.” You and I already know that we are overcomers. Through Christ we are more than conquerors. I am excited about this series because we are going to talk about some specific struggles that…

Introduction At this time of year many people are really paying attention to the sports world. Right? Next Sunday, the 13th, is the super bowl, for those who care. If you don’t care, that’s okay. It will still happen. :) How many think that the team who loses the Super Bowl should never be allowed to…

In this series, we examine kryptonite that keeps us from being grateful.

When we begin with the Word, we are equipped to live in the world. Regardless of what goes on around us or what others seem to have, we have nothing if we don't have God.

Christmas can become a season of comparisons. Some people brag about having the perfect Christmas. Some self-deprecate about having the worst Christmas. But in both of these scenarios, the focus is not on Jesus. And yet, He's the one we should put our trust in. And when we do, nothing else should matter.

Contentment doesn't come naturally. It's learned as we grow in our relationship with Jesus.

Scripture 1 Brothers and sisters, if someone is overtaken in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual, restore such a person with a gentle spirit, watching out for yourselves so that you also won’t be tempted. 2 Carry one another’s burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. 3 For if anyone…

Connect I can’t believe it! It felt like forever but we are back in action y’all! Vision: This is going to be a year of Growth, Challenge, and Discovery Read: 2 Cor. 10:12 2 Corinthians 10:12 (CSB) 12 For we don’t dare classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. But in measuring themselves…

Jesus tell the deciples that they must be a servent to all.

Our text today is from 2 Corinthians 10:12-18 and I have entitled it, Apples & Oranges & Truth. Partly because Paul shows that when the false teachers create straw-men then attack them, there is no way to see if they are right or not, because they are only looking at themselves! The context for todays…

Introduction Text: 2 Cor 10:1-18 As i thought about a message for Mother’s day, I asked myself what is a topic that Mother’s could really benefit from. My mind automatically thought, “Many women struggle with the feeling that they are less than others and the constant desire to be better than someone…

Three mindsets that can keep us from being thankful

Those who remembered Solomon's Temple bemoaned the fact that the foundations of the new temple paled in comparison. God, through Haggai, encouraged them to work, and He would be with them.

God's measure of success and value is not the same as ours

Introduction There is no greater distraction than a third wheel. Being one of the oldest being pestered by little brothers is par for the course. When I began dating, we did not have cell phone usage. Even when cell phones came around more minutes weren’t free until 9 PM. So back in the day we used a…

Hosea sees that God is not that interested in religious practices such as sacrifice as he is in their covenant loyalty and truly knowing him that may be expressed in sacrifice. And so in the parable of the Pharisee and tax collector the former knows he keeps all the outward rules and makes all the proper sacrifices (fasting and tithing) and ignores his inward nature by comparing himself to the tax collector whom he does not know. But God knows the Pharisee and does not declare him just, for he does not know God. The tax collector knows God and therefore knows that he is a sinner and that God is merciful. He does not get distracted with comparisons. This results in a desperate loyalty to God. God responds with declaring him just, for in knowing God he is becoming like God. That explains both the danger of the rule-keeping Christian or religious and also the possibility of blessing if we make the rules and practices simply the expression of our inward knowledge of God, which will show itself in humility.

Introduction What is the greatest threat facing the church today? Loose morality of a secular world? Opposition to Christian values? Shrinking religious liberty? Ungodly education? One of the greatest threats facing the Church today is the spread of fake gospels and the lure of false gods that deceive…

Loyalty is relative to whom one is loyal to, and that is what we see in the prophets. Hosea speaks to those who called on God thinking he would save because the Temple sacrifices were going on, but their deeper loyalty was to pleasure, power, and that that goes with that. Jesus speaks of a Pharisee whose world revolved around "I". He was righteous and he knew it for he obeyed the Torah minutely and wet beyond it too. But he despised others and missed love and mercy, the heart of God. The tax collector knew God enough that he could call for mercy and not justify himself. He was the humble one. We have to apply this to ourselves, for it is in application that we are saved, not in knowing about these truths.

Have you ever played with someone who was so competitive they took the fun out of whatever you were doing? Have you ever been that person? - Competition... At least I’m not that guy…Comparison... Often we have conflicts in our relationships because we’re comparing or competing rather than connecting…

The nation of Israel wanted a human king to be like all of the other nations surrounding them. However that was not Gods plan. Often times don't we do the same thing with our walk with God. We ask for something and he doesn't always give us exactly what we wanted. But what he has planned is always better.

Intro *READ passage w/emphasis and FEELING Idea: I can’t love _________ because of _________________. Pray They found the security they needed to make sense of their world by putting—and keeping---people in their places. This served to preserve social and ethnic distinctions and to safeguard their positions…

Following Jesus Introduction: Jesus and the Beloved Apostle 20 Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them, the one who also had leaned back against him during the supper and had said, “Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?” 21 When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord,…

Scripture 21 So Peter seeing him said to Jesus, “Lord, and what about this man?” 22 Jesus said to him, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me!” 4 But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in…