sermons: spiritual Growth

Celebrate Getting Connected
It's Party Time , Part 2
It seems that too many people today are on a course in life that they're convinced is the right course. But what they have forgotten or not noticed along the way is that they have traveled so far outside the path that God would have for them that they have become disconnected; the cord has been pulled out from the power source and they have not noticed it and they’re headed for a crash. In this sermon, Gordon talks about two very basic principles that can help us to get and stay connected to God.
>>sermon filed under: celebration, spiritual growth

Lose the Love that Fades
There is a love that fades and needs to be lost in our life, not cultivated in our life. And it has to do with holding our life up to the light and seeing it for what it is. The kind of love we are talking about in this sermon is the kind laden with spiritual fat that can lead to all kinds of spiritual disease. It's the kind of love that eventually fades. And it all starts out with something that at first appears to be a good friend. Something that satisfies our appetite and feels good. Its name is desire.
>>sermon filed under: desire, spiritual growth

Arrogance
Protecting Your Achilles Heel, Part 6
This sermon is the final message in the series "Protecting Your Achilles Heel" and the focus of this message is arrogance. The process of spiritual growth is promoting the good and overcoming and working through these areas of immorality and weakness.
>>sermon filed under: arrogance, spiritual growth

Anger
Protecting Your Achilles Heel, Part 5
What are those things that really make you angry? With most of us, if we have the right buttons pushed enough, we can have anger erupt within us like a volcano. The process of spiritual growth is promoting the good and overcoming and working through these areas of immorality and weakness.
>>sermon filed under: anger, spiritual growth

Dirty Little Secrets
Protecting Your Achilles Heel, Part 4
Have you ever tried to lift something that looked light but when you went to lift it, it was heavier then you thought? Deceit is something that is a much heavier load then frequently we know about. The life of deception weakens us, it makes cowards of us, it stunts our spiritual growth, it affects every area of our life, it is a heavier load then we can ever hope to carry by ourselves, and thinking that we can carry the load of deception is, in fact itself, a deception.
>>sermon filed under: deceit, spiritual growth

INflexibility
Protecting Your Achilles Heel, Part 3
If our faith doesn’t get stretched regularly, it can become inflexible, and it can snap. If we are not constantly stretching our faith, learning, exercising, and growing our faith, our views can become calcified to the extent that we’ll not be able to see what Jesus is trying to teach us. Spiritual growth requires the acknowledgment of one’s need to grow.
>>sermon filed under: faith, change, spiritual growth

Betrayal
Protecting Your Achilles Heel, Part 2
Loyalty and integrity are probably the least used and practiced words in America today. You don’t even hear them spoken let alone practiced. In this sermon we are going to look at the Achilles Heel of betrayal. The process of spiritual growth is promoting the good and overcoming and working through these areas of immorality and weakness.
>>sermon filed under: betrayal, integrity, spiritual growth

Greed
Protecting Your Achilles Heel, Part 1
You’re probably familiar with the mythic Achilles, greater than mortal man but not quite God, he’s a fascinating example of how great promise can fall victim to moral failing. Achilles heel has endured for centuries as the metaphor for a fatal flaw, a chink in the armor that permits the tip of an arrow to penetrate and to kill. It turns out that many characters in the bible have that same flaw, and chances are that most of us do too. If we open ourselves up to spiritual growth, I believe God is going to show us these flaws that we’re going to have to deal with in our lives.
>>sermon filed under: greed, spiritual growth

Life In A Box
Boxes, well, they box us in. They rob us of life, they anesthetize us, they limit us, they blind us. Boxes, after all, are what they bury us in. So who wants to live in one? Take a look around and you’ll see a world of people whose life is lived in a box. People who are desperately looking for a way they can experience life.
>>sermon filed under: spiritual growth

The Race of Faith
If you were to describe your life as a race, where would you be in your faith with God? 1. Just getting in the blocks - Just starting out in my faith? 2. Not even in the race yet - Just looking on, checking things out and considering it. Nervous? 3. Stopping to grab the water bottle - Starting to slow down? 4. Or, are you just now hitting your full stride? The best is yet to come!
>>sermon filed under: faith, spiritual growth

How To Be Grateful
Part 1 of 6 :: It's A Brand New Year, Is It The Same Old You?
Now is the time to take a personal inventory and ask ourselves this question: Am I the person I want to be? Am I the person I ought to be? Am I the person God wants me to be? This 25 minute message is the first in a series about the basic makings of a good person, starting with gratitude.
>>sermon filed under: gratitude, spiritual growth

How To Be Courageous
Part 2 of 6 :: It's A Brand New Year, Is It The Same Old You?
Take a step of courage, listen to this 21 minute sermon and break out of this gravitational attraction of the familiar. What is it that you need to do that takes courage? What step do you need to take in your life that is going to require you to quit listening to the chickens in your life?
>>sermon filed under: courage, spiritual growth

How To Be Transparent
Part 3 of 6 :: It's A Brand New Year, Is It The Same Old You?
Transparency means owning your own story, not pretending to be someone else and not spinning your story to be smarter than you are or dumber than you are, poorer than you are, richer than you are, better than you are or worse than you are. Integrity is owning the story God has given us to write.
>>sermon filed under: integrity, spiritual growth

How To Be Proactive
Part 4 of 6 :: It's A Brand New Year, Is It The Same Old You?
Have you ever wondered which it is... Is God in control or am I in control? If God is in control, why does He talk about self-control? If the Bible promotes a kind of spirituality that is to be spirit-led then why does it talk about self-discipline? God grants to us responsibility for our life. He is still in control. He is still leading things, He is still opening and closing doors and windows of opportunity, but we are responsible.
>>sermon filed under: self-control, spiritual growth

How To Be Attentive
Part 5 of 6 :: It's A Brand New Year, Is It The Same Old You?
Pay attention! Maybe you've heard that from the policeman who just pulled you over. Maybe you are half-asleep when awake and half-awake when asleep. Maybe you stopped asking the question a long time ago. Maybe you are just going through the motions and have missed the moments of grace that God has put in front of you because you were not paying attention. The light may be about ready to turn green...so you better pay attention.
>>sermon filed under: attentiveness, spiritual growth

How To Be Loving
Part 6 of 6 :: It's A Brand New Year, Is It The Same Old You?
Our lives depend upon love. Living depends on love. You may exist...but if you’re not loving, you’re not living, you’re just existing. If the good news means anything it means that we don’t have to be the person that we used to be. The Gospel is the power that is within us that allows us to become what we otherwise would not have been. Listen to the final message in this series and see how, at the end, with all of these linked virtues, we are led to a place that we otherwise would have never been; when God produces within us the ability to love ourselves and to love other people. That’s the miracle, that’s the good news.
>>sermon filed under: love, spiritual growth

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