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UNBROKEN… almost supernatural ability to withstand torture We have this ability, but it’s not the life God wants for us Today we are looking at the Tortured soul… WE ARE NOT A BODY WITH A SOUL . • WE ARE A SOUL WITH A BODY . 26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their…

Welcome to Heartland Christian Church. if this is your first time here we are happy to have you. Let’s get started. Please Stand. Somebody give him thanks for something He is or does. Today we’ll be reading Psalm 51 . Psalm 51 says: To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came…

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” "The church is to be a community of people who know how to love and how to live, a community that…

Reading 1 John 1:1-10 Introduction Today was going to be our last day in James but I have decided to break it up into two more sermons. We are going to finish out the the section of scripture we started last week by picking up where we left off in prayer and finish his thoughts on that. Next week we…

This Torah Portion: Gen 44:18 - 47:27 Introduction In the previous Torah portions we talked about how Jacob finally settled and had children - among who Joseph became the first born of promise We heard how Joseph had a first dream -regarding ruling over his brothers and that seem to have made him overconfident…

It is important to be reminded of vision. Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Part of shepherding is keeping us laser focused. We easily forget and get distracted. We gain new people that don’t understand. So we will kick off 2023 with a couple sermons that help us…

An old saying goes, “A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to come unraveled. 16 Rejoice evermore. 17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and…

Things are not as they always seem. Sometimes what we see doesn’t at first make sense to us. This is especially true if we are unfamiliar with a practice of another culture or person. We need to live integrated lives. This is part of what James has been teaching us. As we gather into Holy Week, and I…

Introduction Another moral failure. Why isn’t the church more different from the world? All the same issues. 1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so…

Matthew 5:9 We have been going through a series on the Truth about having a Blessed Home. Each week has been very convicting for me. But we all want to have a blessed home, but it takes some work to get there! We saw that a blessed home is one that hungers for Righteousness. We have seen that a blessed…

When I did youth ministry, we would take kids to Chuck E Cheese. They had a game called Whack-a-mole. In WAM, moles pop up out of holes and you have to hammer them back down. But as soon as you slam one, another pops up. And on and on it goes. The thing about this game and the reason it’s just evil,…

Prayer is coming into communication with the living and active God... Prayers moves us from the: Physical to the Spiritual Temporal to the Eternal From self-focus to God-focus This week we are going to look at the NT How Not to Pray 5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to…

2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial,…

Reading 1 Thessalonians 5:12-24 Introduction We are coming to the end of James. We have two more weeks and we will cover the last section of James’ teaching. Throughout the book we have seen James focus on a couple themes. We have seen that he had been encouraging and correcting the Christian believers…

When we sin, we are not only harming ourselves, but we are also harming our relationships with God and others. The Bible tells us that we need to confess our sins to one another so that we can be healed and restored. This is not always easy to do, but it is necessary for our spiritual growth. When we confess our sins, we are admitting that we need help and that we are willing to change. Learn how to confess your sin and how to walk those who confess through restoration in the message Confess your sins to one another.

The Church is called to caring for the poor, needy, and afflicted We have allowed pagans and degenerates to hijack social justice But the Church has always been meant to be the center of charity Justin Martyr (Justin the philosopher) gives us insight into the earliest churches He tells us Christians…

This morning, our Scripture lesson from Luke is just one verse—we are revisiting Luke 6:19 . Although, the function of Luke 6:17-19 is to provide the context and location of the Sermon on the Plain, this verse jumped out at me and I could not get it out of my mind. It is a very powerful picture of Jesus’…

Over the past few weeks we have taken a look at some of the Lord’s Parables that He used to teach others as well as His own disciples important lessons. Last week we began to look at some of the parables that deal with Christian living. In other words, how are we to live as believers? Today I want to…

Main Idea Prayer is a means by which God works out His ends and changes us in the process Outline & Passage Why is devoted prayer a core value? I - Because it's effectual II - It honors God III - It’s thoroughly biblical IV - It changes us 6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer…

Welcome Good morning everyone, today we are finishing our series on the book of James. He has been speaking against them doing a lot of different things, arguing, slandering one another, looking out for themselves, but in the last part of James he speaks more pastorally to the church, offering sympathy…

Skinny on Prayer IACTS Intercession 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. Adoration Thinking about the characteristics of God 9 “This, then, is how you should pray: “ ‘Our Father in heaven,…

Today we are concluding our series on the Book of James. If you have not read James, go back and read this short book. There are only 5 chapters. It won’t take you long to read it. If you don’t like to read, find it in some kind of audio device and listen to it. Over the last few weeks we have learned…

Don’t Give Up This morning I just sense a different anointing. I just want to encourage you today. Some of you are fasting. You need God to move. You need God to answer. You are seeking a fresh vision of Jesus. You are hungry. You are desperate. You have been in a wilderness. But hear me, the wilderness…

Someone wrote these interesting words entitled, “Only in America:” 1- Only in America can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance. 2- Only in America are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink. 3- Only in America do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of…

Criteria For Finding God’s Will God has an individual will for each Christian and that His direction can be discerned. God’s leading never contradicts Scripture rightly understood The person who wishes to know God’s will must be willing to do God’s will (obedience to God’s will already known) God’s will…