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Intro; This morning we looked at “Setting Up Spiritual Stones” in our lives for the purpose of remembering what God has done and continues to do for us in Jesus Christ. We talked about how it is important that these memorials not be just for ourselves but for other generations that they might come to…

How do I have a better relationship with God? Why doesn’t my Bible reading produce spiritual growth? Meditating on the Bible is the key spiritual discipline that God gives us for spiritual health and well-being.

We come to a place

We are considering the picture of Romans 12 living a life God can bless last week at a glance we saw first we give all to God The picture reveals our life to us, having tried doing life our way and it isn’t working We come then to a place of brokenness, where we are ready to give our life to God as a…

A picture of Authentic community

Open your bibles to (Pew Bible 760) Romans 12:4 -8 So the picture is becoming clearer We lay our life on the altar in response to what God has done for us We do this as an act of worship allowing the Spirit to come in and transform us. No longer conforming to the world and changing the way we think.…

Por el engaño de las falsas enseñanzas, vs: 1-6. Características de las falsos maestros, vs: 1-3. Apostatas y engañadores enseñando doctrinas demoníacas. Hipócritas prohibiendo cosas buenas. Esta forma de liderazgo pone mas autoridad en el líder que en la Palabra de Dios, 2 Tim. 3:5 . que tendrán apariencia…

The Picture so far Romans 12:1 Total Surrender to God Romans 12:2 The Spirit comes in and life change begins - Thinking changes, a renewed mind, proving the will of God Romans 12:3 Come to grips with the real you, looking under the mask Romans 12:4-8 Your place in the body, gifted by God Romans 12:9-13…

This was done for my Master Assessment. It encompasses a few things. It is a description of my walk through Christian Spirituality. It looks at what spiritual formation is and the kind of questions it asks. It takes a look at the benefits of using different spiritual disciplines in our walk with Christ. It looks at what Spiritual disciplines have worked for me in my life and my vocational context. It looks at what spiritual direction means and how that looks when we engage it. And finally it establishes what spiritual mentoring looks like in our personal/ community/ and vocational life.

Living a Life God Can Bless We see as we seek to live a life more like Christ, a life of holiness we cannot do this ourselves. So we look for a picture in scripture of spiritual formation of true discipleship where day by day, minute by minute, moment by moment we are becoming more and more like Christ.…

Spiritual transformation, not behavior modification

Light helps us see and know the world around us. Light nourishes and supports life. Light is also what gives life beauty, because it opens our eyes to a whole world of color which is made possible by light. Just as with the circle of life - there is a circle of light. We receive light and we also give it out.

As we conclude our sermon series to begin the new year, we look at the ways that true change can happen in our lives and what we as followers of Jesus need to do in our walk with him to bring this change.

If we wish to life Life in the Spirit, then we must overcome our faults, particularly our predominant fault. We identify it by prayer and sincere self-examination. We fight against it by prayer, the particular examen, and a sanction.

PRESENTATION: Jesus Hid Himself Each year on Passion Sunday, when we arrive at church we are greeted with the stark sight of the statues and images veiled. This is traditionally connected to the final verse of today’s Gospel passage, “They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself…

Faith practices are intentional attempts at resting and learning the “unforced rhythms of grace” from Jesus. The early church was a picture of believers who shared a desire to go deeper with God, a community characterized by spiritual rhythms that made space in everyday life for him.