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Love Forgives – Sermon Slides

by Steve

Worship 10.23.11 40 days of love wk 4 [slideshare id=9912254&w=425&h=355&sc=no] View more presentations from steve4040 Sermon Audio Early service   Related posts: Love Forgives Love is Patient, Love is Kind Love Matters Most Doctrine of Hell Sermon Slides

Love Forgives

by Steve

40 Days of Love, Week 4 “Let LOVE be your Highest Goal!” 1 Corinthians 14:1   Discipleship – When we change the way we think, then it’ll change the way we feel and it will change our behavior. Sometimes we think we can change others, but we can’t. However, we can change ourselves. Look what happens to an […]

Love is Patient, Love is Kind

by Steve

 40 Days of Love, Week 2 “Let LOVE be your Highest Goal!” 1 Corinthians 14:1   You can’t fully understand how to love other people until first you understand how much God loves you. You cannot offer to other people what you don’t possess yourself. You can’t be gracious to others if you haven’t felt God’s grace. You […]

Love Matters Most

by Steve

40 Days of Love, Week 1 “Let LOVE be your Highest Goal!” 1 Corinthians 14:1 So often, love is seen as an uncontrollable event, like something you “fall” into or fall out of. But love is a choice, a commitment and the greatest challenge of your life. We need HELP! We need Divine intervention, we need God. The […]

Definition of Love

by Steve

40 Days of Love, Day 1 “Let LOVE be your Highest Goal!” 1 Corinthians 14:1 To love at all is to be venerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even […]

Now it begins…

by Steve

Following the 40 days in the desert, Jesus began His ministry. Jesus was both focused and energized to proclaim boldly what was confirmed in the desert. Jesus was no longer distracted by voices heard in the desert, but knew his mission and the voice of the One to whom He would seek guidance and help. […]

Day 23 – How We Grow Up!

by Steve

God wants you to grow up!    “God wants us to grow up … like Christ in everything.” Ephesians 4:15a (Msg)    Your heavenly Father’s goal is for you is to mature and develop the characteristics of Jesus Christ. Sadly, millions of Christians grow older but never grow up. They are stuck in perpetual spiritual […]

Day 25 – Transformed by Trouble

by Steve

God has a purpose behind every problem!    “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.” 2 Corinthians 4:17 (NIV)    He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our […]

Day 24 Transformed by Truth

by Steve

The Truth Transforms Us!    Spiritual growth is the process of replacing lies with truth. Jesus prayed, “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.” John 17:17 (NIV)    Sanctification requires revelation. The Spirit of God uses the Word of God to make us like the Son of God. To become like Jesus, we […]

Day 7 – The Reason for EVERYTHING

by Steve

It is all for him!  “With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith. We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus […]

Day 6 – Life is a Temporary Assignment

by Steve

Life on earth is a temporary assignment!  “Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered, and that my life is fleeing away.” Psalm 39:4 (NLT)  To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: – First, compared with eternity, life […]

Day 4 – Made To Last Forever

by Steve

This life is not all there is! “God has…planted eternity in the human heart.”  Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NLT)  Life on earth is just the dress rehearsal before the real production. You will spend far more time on the other side of death—in eternity—than you will here. This life is preparation for the next.  You have an […]

Day 3 – What Drives Your Life?

by Steve

Everyone’s life is driven by something!    “I observed that the basic motive for success is the driving force of envy and jealousy.” Ecclesiastes 4:4 (LB)  What is the driving force in your life? Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. There are five great benefits of living […]

Day 2 – You are NOT an Accident

by Steve

You are not an accident!  Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it. God never does anything accidentally, and he never makes mistakes. He […]

It All Starts with God

by Steve

It’s not about you! “For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, …everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him.” Colossians 1:16 (Msg) “It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone’s life is in his power.” Job 12:10 (TEV) You were made for God, not vice versa, […]