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In It To Win It: The Naked Truth

The wisest man who ever lived was a guy named Solomon.  In 1 Kings 3 God gave Solomon the chance to ask for whatever he wanted—-great moment.   Solomon asked for wisdom to guide God’s people.  Because he did not ask for riches, victory or long life—God gave him wisdom and all those things.   Did you know that during the reign of Solomon silver and gold because as common place as stones.  (2 Chron 1:15)
 
Today as we talk about sex I want us to go to God’s book and the wisest man who ever lived said about God’s gift of sex to married couples.   

In It ToWin It: Married With Children

So we are in a marriage series and Mother’s Day just happened to fall in the middle of the series.  We are planning what we address in marriage on Mother’s Day and we decided on a sermon called MARRIED WITH CHILDREN.   So I begin to do some research on the topic and I will tell you that I was literally thrown into a tailspin by what I found.  Then I began to talk to couples and found out that the research was spot on…So here we go.  
 
James 1:2-4.   I want to give you the big picture of what these verses are saying to us—-Everything that happens is happening to make us more like Christ.   I need you to put those glasses on right now—What ever happens in your life is happening, or can be used to move us toward Christlikeness.   Loss, struggle, frustration, conflict—all of it is moving us to become more like Jesus.   This gives new insight into Romans 8:28l AND WE KNOW THAT GOD CAUSES ALL THINGS TO WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THOSE WHO LOVE GOD, TO THOSE WHO ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.  Think of that verse in terms, not of all things working out, but of God working His will in your life—which is you and I becoming conformed to the image of Christ.   
 
With that in mind let’s pray and talk marriage…

In It To Win It: 3 Questions to a Better Marriage

This week I’m going to break from my normal way of preaching and talk to us about 3 questions that will help us all have a better marriage. I mean that’s what we want right? We want our marriage to be the best they can be! I want my marriage to be the best it can be. And I want you to have the best marriage you can have. I think it’s safe to say this, but I don’t think any of us got married and before hand thought to ourselves, how can I have the worst marriage possible? Yet, I wonder how many of us got married thinking we’re about to get our needs met, over thinking I can’t wait to get to meet my spouse’s need.
 
The reality for each of us is that if we aren’t careful, intentional and work on our marriage to love and care for our spouse’s correctly, our marriages can become more like roommates than lovers, enemies rather than friends, competition over helpmates, and at worst indifferent over passionate.

In It To Win It: I’m Just Not Happy

What is happiness?
If you asked someone to quickly define happiness they might say—Happiness is feeling good.   Well yes, but if that is all happiness is than a cocaine addict would be the happiest person on the planet.   Right, staying high is a “feeling good” but how many happy addicts do we know?  Not many.  
 
Happiness is much deeper than feeling.   Much science and research has gone into the study of happiness.   One definition is that Happiness is the feeling that life is good, meaningful and worthwhile.   While that may be true researchers have discovered a couple of really interesting realities about happiness.

Sunday, April 17, 2022 - The Day That Changed Everything

We are calling our celebration of Easter, the day that changed everything.  Why is that?  Better yet is it really true that Easter changed everything.   I want to share a few facts with you about the life of Jesus to get us started…
 
There are 2.4 billion Christians in the world today—out of a world population of 7.9 billion people.   That is just slightly less that 1/3 of the worlds population that identify as a follower of Jesus.   
 
Jesus never wrote a book—-More books written about Jesus than any other topic in the world.  The Best selling book in all the world is the Bible with over 5 Billion copies sold—the runner up is Don Quixote with 500 million.   The Bible has sold 10 times more copies than the runner up.   That doesn’t count all the free versions of the Bible. 
 
Jesus never wrote any songs—yet more songs are written about him than all other subjects combined.
 
Jesus never built a building—yet more architecture is built to honor him than anything else in the world. 
 
Jesus never created any art—more art dedicated to Jesus than anything in history.
 
Jesus never traveled more than 200 miles from his hometown—yet his followers are in every place on the planet.  
 
What happened?   The resurrection.  We split our history by the resurrection.  Your Birthday is dated by the resurrection.   The resurrection is the day that changed everything!   That’s a really broad statement, what did it change for me, what can it change for you?  

Sunday, April 10, 2022 - Bad To The Bone: Reckless Living

I’ve done some really dumb things in my life and have made some really bad decisions, and it’s encouraging to know and see that throughout the pages of Scripture we see that the people that God used most was the ones we naturally would think that God would use least. Today, we’re going to look at the story of the Prodigal Son found in Luke 15. I love this story. I’ve been reading and listening to sermons about this Scripture what seems like my entire life.
The title of today’s message is this: Bad to the Bone - Reckless Living
The Truth of today’s message is this: No matter how far from God you may go, you are never too far to come back home.

Sunday, April 3, 2022 - Bad To The Bone: Desperation, Exhaustion and Salvation

We are not designed to live from an empty cup—when we run dry we reach for the easy and temporary source of comfort.   That means that everyday we need to drink from water that truly satisfies.  That we must sit in the presence of Jesus daily

Sunday, March 27, 2022 - Bible Reading Plan

This week we start our second quarter of the BRP—I have been so encouraged by how many people are doing this.  I believe one of the reasons we are seeing God do what God is doing is that we are all on the same page, hearing God speak through the same passage.   If you haven’t picked up your reading plan do so today or get it online. 
 
We are doing the Bible Reading plan because of how we define discipleship.  We believe a follower of Jesus Learns about Jesus, Lives like Jesus and Leads others to Jesus.   So today we are going Hebrews 11 and we are going to see what we learn, how we live, and then how we can use that to lead others to Jesus. 

Sunday, March 20, 2022 - Bad To The Bone: When Grace Makes You Uncomfortable

We are in this series called Bad to the Bone.  We are looking at the lives of men and women who were—well they were bad.  What we are discovering is that their bad wasn’t bigger than God’s grace.   That some of the baddest, became some of the greatest.
 
Today we are looking at the life of a man who sunk as low as anyone in all of scripture.  This is a message that is burdensome to share it contains so much evil.  And yet in the end we find that what Paul said is true, where sin did abound, grace did much more abound.   This bad man is named Lot, if this man can make heaven you and I can make heaven.

Sunday, March 13, 2022 - Bad To The Bone: A King’s Life

There’s just something about David. He seems to be a mirror for the world and almost a reflection of our hearts. I often feel like David is a clueless character in some crazy action and adventure story that should be played by Ryan Reynolds and yet I’m bewildered that he provokes such ruin that could easily be avoided. If I’m being really vulnerable with you: What I hate about David is what I hate about me, and yet what I love about David is what I hope to become. 
 
Listen to me very carefully, David had a profound understanding of the weight of his own personal sin, and yet he also had an uncommon understanding of God’s love. David’s story is a rags to riches story; It’s a good ole Underdog story; it’s the story of an ordinary guy that God used in extraordinary ways; it’s the story of a no-one becoming some-one by knowing the Only-One. Listen to me: It’s our story.