Living Jesus is Greater: Found - Audio

Reach Community Church

Most people in this room believe God can do great and miraculous things. God's ability isn't the hard part. Don't get me wrong, it takes faith to reach this point, but it's relatively easy to believe that God can. The hard part is this question. Is he willing to do it for you? This is where the text is going to lead us today. Let's see what God might want to say and do today if you are willing.

Pastor Randy Thornton - Grace Church Southern Pines

How do you see the Father? How you answer this question determines your willingness to interact with him. Does he care, does he pursue, does he forgive, and does he want me? I don't want you to answer those questions with just your theological knowledge because good theology matters for nothing if it doesn't affect how you live. The Gospels were the Father's way of teaching us truths about him. Religious people of Jesus' day missed it, and there is a strong possibility that so will we if we are not careful. Today, we will walk through the first fourteen verses of Matthew 18 and ask ourselves what the Father wants to say about these things.

Today, we continue our walk through the life of Joshua, a faithfully consistent man. We have seen that his faithfulness starts with his connection to the presence of God. I believe that was the seed that grew him into the man we are reading about today. We also saw how important it is to have a POV filtered through our trust in the father. Recently, I have been challenged by the fact that I don't live historically. What does that mean? It means I often forget that God loves me and has historically taken care of me. Looking at my life in decades, not days, I always see His redeeming grace. The problem is that when I choose to live in the moment, I often forget the decade's history. Today, God wants to reset your reminders and help us live historically.

Do you know what POV stands for? Anyone?! It stands for Point of View. POV is a particular attitude or way of considering a matter. The way you interpret what you see matters. You people can see the same thing and have two completely different perspectives. If you are married, you know exactly what I am talking about. You can both witness the same thing and have two different responses. Right!!! As we continue our series on Joshua, looking about you was faithfully consistent. He had a view of God that was shaped by his connection to the presence of the Father. He trusted the Father first and filtered everything he saw and experienced through that trust. Today, we will learn that POV matters.0101

Welcome to 2024. Ready or not, it is here. What do you want out of this year? You may even have set some goals. Sadly, most of those will be forgotten by the middle of this month. I want more for you than just a better, skinnier, or richer you. I want to help you live like Jesus is better than everything else. I want Jesus to invade our hearts, homes, and cities. The real question is, how do we do that? You aren’t going to like my method because it isn’t fast, flashy, or easy. We will spend the rest of this month looking at the life of Joshua and how He took the long road of being faithfully consistent. I don’t believe he was after anything other than being a man who loved God. And as he pursued God, God did some pretty wild and amazing things with and through him.

Christmas Eve Service 2023

Today, we continue our Love Showed Up series. When love shows up hope in never lost. Hope is a dangerous word when it is linked to most things. I hope this doesn’t happen, or I hope so. Biblical hope isn’t placed on something that may fail you. Biblical hope puts all its confidence in one person. Today, I want to take a more extended look at a text I briefly discussed two Sundays ago and wrestle with the implications. Today’s text will stretch you, confront you, and call you to a greater level of trust in our SAVIOR. A call to follow Jesus is a call to surrender and trust. Hope is never lost when love shows up.

When Love Shows up, forgiveness is always close at hand. When sin entered the world, people started hiding from God. Because of sin, Shame and fear control much of our life. We medicate to forget and get by, give ourselves to work, hoping to be distracted and seek value, and turn on the TV to forget. What if we could stop hiding from God and live in the forgiveness he offers to all who put their faith in his completed work on the cross? Colossians says in Jesus we have redemption and the forgiveness of sins; Psalm 103 tells us that he removes our transgressions from us as far as the east is from the west. To understand forgiveness, we have to understand a few things. First, can Jesus give it? Second, do we need it?