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Intro: My childhood epilepsy caused me to have a strange aura. (Mom and Dad in a shouting match with dad cussing.) You’ve probably heard the saying, like father like son. It is a saying that really is a description of sons that take on many of the traits of their father. This is not an uncommon thing…

How would you define love? There was a movie made by Disney over 14 years ago, with a song called: How does she know that you love her. How does someone show love? I realize that I am late to the ball game for this sermon. Every September or October, I set aside a week to prepare my preaching calendar…

Imitating Christ

Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their…

Home School Finished a month of home schooling! Parents, how y’all doing? Surviving? Maybe I should ask the kids, how are your parents surviving? How are they doing as assistant teachers? Assistant to the teacher? A certain kind of kid does awesome in this environment. Everyone has different learning…

Introduction As we continue to study the book of Ephesians we come to one of the most challenging passages in Scriptures: "Therefore be imitators of God" See Ephesians 4:32 32 Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Knight in the shining…

INTRODUCTION: Have you ever considered how your Bible is put together? Is it a topical index on life issues? That is – you have your book on parenting, you have your book on worship, you have your book on anger, you have your book on success. I think when we ask it that way, we realize our Bibles are…

Kelly Clarkson came out with a song in 2021 called: Christmas come early. It goes like this: Candles burning out at both ends I don't miss the crowd, just my friends Seems like everybody needs a little bit of cheer Christmas, won't you please come early this year? I don't need the snow, I'm already cold…

Those are some mighty big shoes! ______________________________________________________ Walking in the imitation of Christ, walking in His footsteps of love and walking in the light is not an easy thing to do, but it is worth it. We have been called to walk worthy of the calling (Eph4:1) now comes some…

‎Because of Jesus, Christians should be humbly united in Christ-like community

The importance of learning to Admonish one another

PROBLEM: We were at Disney last week, I know, I am not getting any sympathy from all the disney lovers in the church. While we were there, it was the Festival of the Arts at Epcot, and whenever they have one of the special seasons at Epcot, they have special food stations setup all around the world,…

BIBELTEXT Epheser 4,11–13 (NGÜ NT+PS) 11 Er ist es nun auch, der der Gemeinde Gaben geschenkt hat: Er hat ihr die Apostel gegeben, die Propheten, die Evangelisten, die Hirten und Lehrer. 12 Sie haben die Aufgabe, diejenigen, die zu Gottes heiligem Volk gehören, für ihren Dienst auszurüsten, damit die…

What is Tupos As we get into our time today, to introduce you to our Big Picture Idea for this session. While our Big Picture Idea for the weekend is discussing the What, Who, & Why of Imitation as we talked about earlier this afternoon - I want to break that Big Picture idea down into 3 parts, and those…

Leitura Bíblica: 6 Com efeito, vos tornastes imitadores nossos e do Senhor, tendo recebido a palavra, posto que em meio de muita tribulação, com alegria do Espírito Santo, 7 de sorte que vos tornastes o modelo para todos os crentes na Macedônia e na Acaia. Introdução: Hoje vamos descobrir um pouco mais…

How to imitate God

To Genuinely Imitate Christ, We Must Die to Self. Acts 8:9-25 INTRODUCTION The ability to do a great impersonation entertains me. It's amazing how an actor or a comedian can adapt a famous person's facial expressions, physiology, and vocal inflection. The first comedic impersonation I remember was back…

Put Your Love Shoes On Text: Ephesians 5:1-17 Introduction Followers = Imitator (theme of this section) Paul is making his case that children should look like their parents. Physically, that could be embarrassing as much as encouraging. Illustration: Our boys already try to mimic us. Illustration: I…

Feelings just are, and in the case of Elijah they are understandable and God gives him rest and food and the brings him to Sinai where he quietly reframes the situation and gives him a new mission, Jesus sees the disappointment of the people when he will not give them bread and their reacting to his claiming to come down from heaven, which they could not understand, and informs them that they need God’s perspective and revelation and that that is he. The important bread is that which gives eternal life, not mortal life, and that that bread iis he, and he does this by giving his flesh. So Paul calls on Christians to follow rather than grieve the Spirit of God who is helping us deal with our negative emotions: recognize them for what they are and deal with them. Instead we imitate God and Jesus by being loving, or compassionate, or forgiving. The goes to the extent to being a sacrificial offering. I will close with an example of doing this.

This is the second year of our Vision Plan. with a focus on the time of becoming like Jesus.

Big Idea of the Message: Jesus is the fullness of God in human form. Any aspect of holiness that we need to better understand can be found in Jesus. Application Point: We must take the person of Jesus Christ as the single most definitive explanation of God’s holiness. When we consider what holiness means to us in our lives, Jesus must be the standard. We are called to imitate Jesus, and so our lives must reflect the person of Christ in all that we do just as he reflected the Father.

God-the-Son, Jesus wouldn't do, or say, anything unless he checked it out with God-The Father first. Everything was done in and thorugh God's will

Jesus humbled himself to the point of the crucifixion so he could free us from our sins.

INTRO: Turn to your neighbor and say man I’m glad I’m sitting next you. Now turn to your second choice. Tell them although you are my second choice its not personal. I saved the best for last. I’m happy to... I want to thank our pastors for the opportunity to bring a word. SCRIPTURE: We see Paul encouraging…

As God’s people, we are characterized by humility