SERMON SERIES: PROTECTING YOUR ACHILLES HEEL

Greed
Protecting Your Achilles Heel, Sermon Series 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.

Betrayal
Protecting Your Achilles Heel, Sermon Series 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.

INflexibility
Protecting Your Achilles Heel, Sermon Series 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.

Dirty Little Secrets
Protecting Your Achilles Heel, Sermon Series 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.

Anger
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Protecting Your Achilles Heel, Sermon Series 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.

Arrogance
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Protecting Your Achilles Heel, Sermon Series Part 6
It seems that when we look in the mirror and we see the same characteristic or quality in ourselves that we see in someone else, we’ve got another word for it and that makes it ok. When we look at someone else, then we name it for what it is. When someone else is acting high and mighty they are arrogant, but when we are acting high and mighty, we are just strongly self-confident.