Results

1/ Insecurity & uncertainty is an unsettling experience. Sometimes we are just not sure about something. It just doesn’t seem right and we don’t know why. There may be an issue at work and we don’t know how to deal with it. Or a family dispute and our sense of security is threatened. Or a financial challenge…

“In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus summons us to stake our hearts on the reality of God .” I. We Must Obey Jesus ( Mt 7:21-23 ) 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to…

Introduction A sense of belonging is a powerful feeling. When I was around 12 years old I was on a baseball team. Through no fault of my own we were actually pretty good. It felt very good to be on a team that won pretty much every game we played. We ended up beating everyone in our league and being…

God promises to keep His people from all lasting spiritual and physical danger. He requires,however, that His people act responsibly.

Psalm 125:1-5 Peace be upon us! As the prayer said in this Psalm; help us be like a mountain- unshakeable, secure, and upright. With you and our trust in you we will have victory and with victory, peace.

1 Peter 1:1-9 Hope...not a wish, whim, or desire; but an essential part that helps to break the power of sin and give us security in Jesus Christ that will one day bring us to heaven to live with Him.

Since expulsion from Eden, human beings have always sought security in a city that is built on violence against the earth and against others. They want to rise up to heaven. God always destroys the city, confusing communication, scattering people into mutually hostile groups. They will only be united in the God-man who gives them true security by making them one with God.

Welcome to Iowa City Church and part six of our series, Long Obedience in the Same Direction. Anyone here into rock climbing? I’m not. I’ve tried a couple of climbing walls, but that’s about it. I’ve never tried climbing up a rock, and honestly I really don’t want to. However, I am fascinated by people…

The times in which we now live challenge the very core of our existence. There is not a single structure of contemporary civilization that has escaped the crucial tests of today’s changing world. We are challenged by society, but that is not the only challenge. We are challenged by death, pain, suffering,…

Jesus knew who He was and what His purpose on earth was. He carried that knowledge through persecution and mistreatment, all the way to the cross. We find our security in who we are as we see His unwavering commitment to who He is.

Jesus was inwardly secure and therefore he did not need the perks, symbols and titles of who he was, but he could give himself in self-sacrificial love. He instructs his disciples to do the same. The question is whether we are secure enough in him to do it or whether we fake it or simply seek the best title which will assure us of who we are not.

God the Father has and continues to secure our salvation.

People seek security in this life, in our text in particular, in possessions, in savings. Jesus tells us that life itself is uncertain, that giving to others with him is better than earthly security, and that he is our peace and reconciliation. We are secure to be part of his Temple. That is where we find peace, shalom.

Develop your hidden life

Both of our readings show that projecting from a this-world vision cannot give us the future. Antiochus had not reckoned on God and the Sadducees see their conundrum dismissed by one who knew both God and the unseen world. Thus our society may collapse around us and church structures as well, but as we know and follow God in the present who come closer to Him who is the future.

Hebrews 7:8-16

Living Water – this sense of happiness, security, of wholeness – is available to you and me today. Maybe it’s time for you to come home to Jesus today?

Communion at the end of the service this morning Quarterly Business Meeting on Wednesday at 6:30pm ? 5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” 6 So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not…

In the last of these types of appeals, Solomon brings everything together to orient our lives toward the Lord.

The Security of the True Believer

Abandoned Ship For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again…

The believer is safe and secure if he remains under the Lord's protection.

Jesus Christ - a better/sure anchor for our soul/salvation But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, Living and communicating within a new frame of reference/paradigm can be a huge challenge. i.e. major move, major life change or learning a…

You can have victory in the battle against the enemy when you stand secure in Truth!