"heart" Tagged Sermons

"heart" Tagged Sermons

Transparency

God wouldn’t allow his people to have brotherhood with false things under the old covenant and He certainly won’t under the new. It’s easy to look religious, to fool people into thinking you have a relationship with God – but real believers know that God sees and knows our thoughts. One who understands the value of real relationship with Him gets transparent with Him to…

Lay Aside Every Weight (Hebrews)

The Book of Hebrews serves as a reminder to us to go back to the foundations of what Christianity is. Our relationship with an indwelling God who directs our path daily as we yield to Him sets us free from bondage to the law. We can lay aside the weight of trying to get ourselves to heaven. Faith in His promises reassures us that as long as we stay in relationship with…

Where the King Is…

Jesus was a prophet and He confronted the Jews about who they were and the changing covenant. The leaders thought they could rule God’s Kingdom from the outside, but Jesus told them it was being moved inside a man. The evidence of God’s indwelling is seen in his love for his brother as told in the story about the beggar Lazarus. Where the King is, there is love and…

Endurance

When we go to the altar and give our life to Christ, that’s just the beginning. We have to come to the place where we see the gift we’ve been given as priceless and worth any cost to hold on to. He who endures to the end shall be saved.

An Epistle in Our Heart

When the truth is written in us, it’s not only in our life, but in the lives of the people we encounter who will read that epistle. Paul loved the people in Corinth into important decisions. Led them on a path at the end of which was a righteous God. The way through to victory is not to find out what’s sin and not do it – it’s about the blood, confession and repentance -…

Forfeiting Joy

True relationship with God isn’t about religious acts or attitudes, it’s a condition of the heart. We may look as though we are righteous on the outside, but the Lord knows our every thought. When we step outside of a right relationship with Him where we walk and talk with Him daily, we are forfeiting the joy in fellowship with Him that He intends for us to have. We can…

A Heart Set Free

Four women are named in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1. They aren’t the four women we’d expect to find in the King’s lineage, yet each one is remembered and honored by God. Each woman’s story reminds us that God is not interested in seeing people build names for themselves in His kingdom, but in seeing people who value the truth, the seed of life, and who want to…