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Inviting and Instituting Accountability
Please Note: the full transcript is available in the Manuscript link above. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 - The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil. Ecclesiastes 4:8…Read More -
Planning Through the Grid of God’s Wisdom
Please Note: the full transcript is available in the Manuscript link above. Proverbs 21:5 - The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance. 1. Continue to Discuss, Refine, and Implement Our Discipleship Process. 2. Organize and Launch Our New Cluster of Ministries at Faith West. 3. Work Together as a Church Family to Develop…Read More -
The Power of Hope in the Planning Process
Sermon Preview Sermon Outline Romans 15:13 - Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:4 - For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through…Read More -
Recognizing Your Strengths and Weaknesses
Sermon Preview Please Note: The charts Pastor Viars referred to @ 2:06 can be viewed by clicking on the Sermon PPT Notes thumbnail in the Handouts section below. Sermon Outline Please Note: the full transcript is available in the Manuscript link above. Proverbs 21:5 - The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance.…Read More -
Stewardship of Spiritual Disciplines
Stewardship: God-given responsibility with accountability 1. God owns everything. I own nothing. 2. God entrusts me with everything I have. 3. I am responsible to increase what God has given to me. (I may increase it or diminish it) 4. God can call me into account at any time. It could be today. Psalm 1…Read More -
A Thrilling Finish
Please Note: the full transcript is available in the Manuscript link above. Luke 2:8-14 - In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them;…Read More -
The Strength to Use Your Tongue Well
Please Note: the full transcript is available in the Manuscript link above. James 3:2-8 - For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well. Now if we put the bits into the horses’ mouths so…Read More -
The Strength of Waiting
Please Note: the full transcript is available in the Manuscript link above. Psalm 27:14 - Wait for the Lord; be strong and let your heart take courage; yes, wait for the Lord. James 1:22-25 - But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer…Read More -
The Foundational Strength of Thanksgiving
Please Note: the full transcript is available in the Manuscript link above. 2 Timothy 3:1-5 - But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of…Read More -
The Strength of Solving Problems
Please Note: the full transcript is available in the Manuscript link above. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 - Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price:…Read More -
The Strength of Forgiveness
Well, how many of us would say we really like physical exercise and we find it a very easy thing to do? Is that where you are coming from this morning? And I realize there may be a few odd folks who would say yes. But for the rest of us exercise is hard work. …Read More -
Strength That Leads Somewhere
Well many of us have watched the recent wild fires out west with concern and amazement, haven’t we? There are currently fires burning in six different states. In Colorado alone they are fighting 10 major fires right now. The statistics are really staggering. For example the Waldo Canyon fire resulted in 18,000 acres burned—think…Read More -
Understanding Your Source of Power
- I'd like to begin this am with a little audience participation…are you up for that?... - 3 questions… 1. How many of you have ever run out of gas? 2. Where?...what city?... 3. How far did you have to go to get it?... - I've mentioned to you before that my dad and his…Read More -
Marveling at the Power of Christ
- Do you believe that God wants to powerfully minister to your soul in times of need in your life both great and small?... - and I'm really not asking how we would dutifully answer that question on a theology exam…but seriously – for just little old you, and little old me – do you…Read More -
Figuring Out Where You’re Going
- here’s an example of someone where there was real confusion about where he was going… - this is a true story of a man from Egypt named Hamdi Hafez al-Nubi…our tech staff investigated the reliability of this so hopefully I won’t have to turn around and ask your forgiveness next week for being caught…Read More -
Figuring Out What You Want
Well, for most, if not all of us, we can’t fathom having to make this particular decision, but some parents in some countries are faced with either staying where they live and having very little food or clothing or education for their children, because there is simply no work or where one of the parents…Read More -
Figuring Out Who You Love
- imagine it was your responsibility to prepare a group of 2,000,000 people to go from where they are today, to where God wants them to be in the days ahead… - and let’s assume that your words have to be somewhat succinct—because there is no way to provide mass copies of your speeches to…Read More -
Astonishing Faith
- Would you agree with me this morning that Jesus Christ was an astonishing person? - would that be the understatement of the morning?... - the details about the birth of Jesus were unusual at every turn… - the fulfilled prophecies…the virgin conception…the shepherds…the angels…the manger…the Innkeeper…John the Baptist’s parents…the little town of Bethlehem… -…Read More -
You Can’t Do That
- one of the invitations we’re given in Scripture is to… - Psalm 37:4 - Delight yourself in the Lord… - fundamentally our faith is not about religion, or ritual, or duty, or principles…though some of that has its place… - but fundamentally it is about delighting ourselves in the Person of our Savior, the…Read More -
Comfortable In Your Own Skin
- Most of us have watched with horror the events unfolding in the country of Syria… - regardless of what you think of all the political issues involved in the so-called Arab Spring…the humanitarian crisis is undeniable… - whenever a government trains its guns on its own people, something is seriously wrong… - several activist…Read More
