Category: Sermon Thoughts
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Marriage, Divorce, & Remarriage – Position Paper from the Elders
This past Sunday the sermon from Mark 10 dealt with the topic of Marriage and Divorce. We know that this topic will raise a lot of questions, and there is not enough time in a sermon to deal with all of these. So the Elders have composed a position paper and published it here to…
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iPray – Ideas for using prayers of Lament
This week we took a look at a type of Psalm that contains prayers of Lament. These are prayers where people honestly open their heart to God by expressing anger, frustration, disappointment, and feelings of abandonment to God. These prayers give us permission to cry out to God when life doesn’t make sense or the…
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Downloading the Confession App – Integrating confession and repentance in your prayers
Continued talking about prayer this past Sunday, with our focus on confession and repentance in our prayers. As we have done each week of this series, I wanted to post a blog that I hope will become interactive with ideas on how people can incorporate prayers from this week’s them in their lives. This list…
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Cross Chart – What Confession and Repentance produces
The sermon yesterday dealt with creating a life of confession and repentance in our prayers. During the sermon I mentioned and displayed the Cross Chart created by Bob Thune from Corem Deo Church in Omaha. This chart is a terrific image of how true growth in our faith happens. The basic idea here is that…
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Downloading the Thanksgiving App – Ways to integrate thanksgiving into your prayer life
Second week in our series on prayer. This week we talked about downloading thanksgiving and gratitude into life. Here are some of the ideas we shared in the service, and a few others to help with growing in our prayer in this area. Good things, bad things, God things – Have each family member discuss…