It’s all too easy to look backward. It’s easy to get trapped in this silly cycle of what happened before. We focus on the rituals and the things that have always been done but if we don’t know why – does it really matter? When Jesus came he changed our focus from the way we are to the way he is. Now his love has freed us to set our faces to what is ahead. Love can free us.
Category: Messages (Page 26 of 41)
What name tags do you wear in life? We all wear them. Some of them are good ones. Some of them are the ones we should wear, but some of them are lies. They are name tags put on us by other people. They are name tags we pick up as we compare ourselves to other people. Listen as Pastor Derrick shares how God’s love can define us and give us a new name.
This week we wrap up our series titled what the bible doesn’t say with a popularly misunderstood statement in the bible. So many of us hear these words but don’t really listen to what they’re really saying. Does God give us more than we can handle? Yes! He absolutely does and on a regular basis! Listen as Pastor Derrick shares how we regularly miss the point of a familiar bible passage.
It’s all too easy to hear one of those really good statements and then attribute it to the Bible. I think we’ve all done it at least once. It’s easy especially when the saying sounds a lot like something Jesus would actually say. This week we talk about judging. What exactly does the bible say about judging others? Listen as Pastor Derrick sheds a little light on judgment.
We all have a tendency to think that bad things should happen to bad people and vice versa. But what about bad things happening to good people or good things happening to bad people? For some reason we think God is absent or not paying attention when bad things come up in our lives. Listen this week as Pastor Derrick shares this commonly misunderstood idea that the bible never really says!
We’re a self-help society aren’t we? Just look through the television guide channel and you’ll see countless shows about do-it-yourself activities. DIY is the new craze and we love having control but is this really the way that’s best? In week one of our new series What The Bible Does NOT Say Pastor Derrick uncovers the truth behind the lie we so often believe. Give it a listen and come back next week for another truth revealed.
Do you know what you believe? Do you know where you stand? This morning Pastor Derrick showed how it’s important to know what you believe and where you stand. We also looked at the truth of who God is and what that means for us as Lutheran Christians today.
For the past several weeks we’ve been asking the question How is it with your soul? This week we wrap up our series as we look at identity and where we find value and meaning in our soul. Listen as Pastor Derrick explains how changing one question can make a huge difference.
Imagine life like a boat drifting in the ocean. You have an anchor to keep you in place but you have to throw it in the water. The same is true for our soul. The longer you hold the anchor tightly in your grasp, the farther away you begin to drift. Where do you anchor your soul? If it’s in anything other than Jesus, you’re not anchoring in the right place.
Some days our insides get so messed up that they seem to want to run the show. When your soul gets a little out of whack, what do you do? How do you keep your soul in check? Listen as Pastor Derrick shares a little on how to keep our soul in the right place.