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"Too blessed to be stressed" means that you are well-off enough in life that you shouldn't be worrying about trivial matters. It is a way of looking at your life from a macro perspective and remembering to be thankful for what you have. Ps 29 tells us The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace.

Introduction We all have moments of doubt, worry, and fear. We have moments of hopeful expectation. We desire great things to happen and great things to change the situations we are in. Maybe we have great promises guiding us and to lean on. Maybe we just have a strong positive attitude and mindset.…

Sadly people miss the intendewd blessing of the abundant life because they fail to recognize Jesus

The book of Psalms was formed over a long period of time. Various groupings within the Psalter—such as the “Songs of Ascents” (Pss 120–134), the “psalms of the sons of Korah” (Pss 42–49; 84–85; 87–88), and the “prayers of David the son of Jesse” (72:20)—indicate that there were earlier collections before…

Introduction Thankfulness seems to be a lost art today. Warren Wiersbe illustrated this problem in his commentary on Colossians. He told about a ministerial student in Evanston, Illinois, who was part of a life-saving squad. In 1860, a ship went aground on the shore of Lake Michigan near Evanston, and…

Today, we conclude this series on money. We have taken the time each week to look at what the bible says about earning money, saving money, spending money and today we want to look at giving money. First, I want you to understand. I am not preaching this sermon because I need your money. I am also not…

Are You Happy? Be Blessed

Before I begin today, I want each of us to go to Philippians 4:8 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. When you are traveling…

Revelation 22:7 7 “And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.” Jesus says, “I am coming soon ,” six times in Revelation. He says twice, “The time is near. ” What does he mean when he says, “I am coming soon,” or, “The time is near”? It has been…

Matthew 5:1-12 What was the purpose of the beatitudes? Highlight our total depravity and point to our needs for a savior? **Describe a challenging but practical way of life the Jesus expect of his followers. This expectation also comes with a promise. Blessed Repeated nine times. All shown to be the…

1 My son, forget not my law; But let thine heart keep my commandments: 2 For length of days, and long life, And peace, shall they add to thee. 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the table of thine heart: 4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding…

1 Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. 2 And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. 5 “Blessed are the…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, as we listen this morning, we ask that you would open our hearts, our minds, and our spirits for the words that we each need this day to lift us up, to lighten our loads, and most importantly, to carry us throughout this coming week, Amen. As we begin this morning,…

The gospel - the good news - is that Jesus took the judgement of God for all of humanity. He offers this free gift of salvation to whoever believes in him. Yet it does not stop there. The gospel is also that justice will prevail ; the guilty and wicked will not go unpunished. Revelation is a detailed…

Our Inheritance in Christ has benefis for both now and eternity.

Happy Endings Who does not like a movie with a happy ending. I think we all hope for happy endings. Paul lived knowing what he had coming and it made his outlook for the end a happy ending. May we learn and gain his outlook. Tradition would have it: The bible is silent about Paul’s death, but not in…

Most of us have experienced what happens to motorists when one of those huge graders goes to work on a highway repair job. when the machine is operating on a busy road, traffic is halted and the cars lined up in opposite directions are allowed to proceed alternately. A veteran operator of one of those…

As we begin this final week of looking at just a very minor portion of the 150 Psalms we have in our Bibles, I want to encourage you to continue exploring the remaining 146 Psalms. One of the things my very first mentor in ministry taught me, was that there is something in all of the Psalms for each…

Jesus cmmissions ambassadors to spread a counter-cultural kingdom

Today we continue in our study looking at the Blessed and Happy life.The place we will be looking is at another of the Beatitudes.This is the very first recorded sermon that Matthew recorded for us in his gospel and what really speaks to me in this message is who Jesus spoke the message to and what He…

Trouble in the Text: One day we will all come to judgment. What will happen when Jesus returns? On the Day of the Lord, Jesus, the Son of Man will return in glory with angels and sit on his throne, as Lord and King with majesty and grandeur. Where is Jesus’ throne? 18 Then Jesus came to them and said,…

Introduction I want to begin today with a question. But before I do, I want to talk about our response. When we are asked a question in church, there is a temptation. The temptation is to give an immediate Sunday School answer. The temptation is to say what you think I want to hear. However, that’s not…

Introduction This week we celebrate moving forward. This is promotion Sunday. Which for some of you means nothing, for others its a time of Transition. But it is a wonderful time to talk about moving forward, and transitions in our lives. Psalms 1:1-6 How happy is the one who does not walk in the advice…

I hope you all had a little better week than last week.Thank you very much for the kind words that many of you had from applying these teaching to your life. Just to bring you up to date on our series and what I want you to think about as we begin.We are looking at the Blessed and Happy life as it is…

Be Comforted And Controlled By God This morning we continue our study about the blessed and Happy life.And what we have seen each week is that the Blessed and Happy life according to the Bible is when you become stable or have the ability to stand firm during the storms of life.The way to get to that…