Oct 28, 2018
Baggage
By: Rob Kespelher
Series: Breaking Free
He restores my soul. -Psalm 23:3 NKJV
3 “G’s” we often carry around: Guilt, Grief, and Grudges
1. Allow God to take away my guilt.
2. Allow God to bring relief to my grief.
3. Allow God to remove and resolve my grudges.
1. Allow God to take away my guilt.
2. Allow God to bring relief to my grief.
3. Allow God to remove and resolve my grudges.
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- Oct 28, 2018Baggage
Oct 28, 2018BaggageBy: Rob KespelherSeries: Breaking FreeHe restores my soul. -Psalm 23:3 NKJV3 “G’s” we often carry around: Guilt, Grief, and Grudges
1. Allow God to take away my guilt.
2. Allow God to bring relief to my grief.
3. Allow God to remove and resolve my grudges. - Oct 21, 2018Busy Bees
Oct 21, 2018Busy BeesBy: Rob KespelherSeries: Breaking FreeHe makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters. -Psalm 23:2 NIV
R.E.L.A.X.
1. Recognize my value.
2. Enjoy what’s present.
3. Limit my work.
4. Alter what I value most.
5. Xchange my stress for God’s blessedness. - Oct 14, 2018Worry
Oct 14, 2018WorryBy: Rob KespelherSeries: Breaking FreePsalm 231. Remedy to Worry: I must choose to believe that God will take care of me.2. How Do I make God my Shepherd? Accept Jesus as Lord.3. How to get the control issue right – I begin to pray about everything.4. How to do this well for the long haul – Take it one day at a time.
- Oct 7, 2018Destinations
Oct 7, 2018DestinationsBy: Rob KespelherSeries: Individual SermonsProverbs 7 & 8Insight #1 – Many people wander thru life expecting everything will turn out all right
Insight #2 – Regret in our lives often happens because of lack of judgmentPath Principle – The direction, not intentions of our lives determine the destinationInsight #3 – Many people have no specific destination for their lives. Therefore, they end up at places of regretWhere am I going?Insight #4 – God gives us wisdom and direction - Sep 16, 2018A Neighbor Just Like You
Sep 16, 2018A Neighbor Just Like YouBy: Rob KespelherSeries: Won't You Be My NeighborOur Mission – God’s Church is to help all people be transformed by Jesus.Our Vision – A Church For Our NeighborsLuke 10:25-371. What must I do to inherit eternal life?- I want to check the boxes and justify my actions.2. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, Love your neighbor as yourself.- Love your neighbor who is like you.3. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, Love your neighbor as yourself.”- We love God by loving our neighbors.4. “Who is my neighbor?”- I want to affirm and confirm that it is people just like me.5. “Who was a neighbor?”... “The one who showed mercy”- To be a neighbor is to show grace and mercy even to our enemies.6. “Go and do likewise.”– Jesus wants us to love and not walk away.
- Sep 9, 2018Fresh Perspective
Sep 9, 2018Fresh PerspectiveBy: Rob KespelherSeries: Even If You Don'tHabakkuk 3Habakkuk – to embrace, to wrestleLife Point: Experiences with God raise us above the pain and doubt.Changing my Perspective in the Pain…1. I remember what God has done.2. I embrace what God is doing.
- Aug 26, 2018Embrace the Wait
Aug 26, 2018Embrace the WaitBy: Rob KespelherSeries: Even If You Don't1. Position myself to hear from God.Life Point: God’s silence doesn’t mean His absence.2. Position myself to receive, believe, and remember what God says to me.Life Point: The enemy of our soul wants to steal truth from us.3. Position myself to wait. Life Point: God’s seeming delays in your life are not denials. God’s timing is perfect and it can’t be stopped.
- Aug 19, 2018The First Chapter of My Pain
Aug 19, 2018The First Chapter of My PainBy: Rob KespelherSeries: Even If You Don'tHabakkuk – to embrace, to wrestlePainful Question:This isn’t fair, God and you don’t make sense; what are you doing?
Wrestling with God might look like:
A. Questioning God’s care.
B. Questioning God’s apparent absence.
C. Questioning God’s fairness in my situation.
When we get punched in the soul…
1. It can drive us to discover the nature of God.
2. It can drive us to raw honesty about ourselves and our situations.
3. It can drive us to a place that surrenders our own efforts for a reliance on God. - Aug 12, 2018My Story
Aug 12, 2018My StoryBy: Rob KespelherSeries: Great Choices for LifeToday’s Great Choice:
I choose to let God use me to share how he has worked in my life.“Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.” -Matt. 5:10 (NIV)
“Blessed are the peacemakers.” -Matt. 5:9 (NIV)
WHAT CAN I SHARE TO HELP OTHERS?
1. I can share how pain woke me up.
2. I can share what I’ve learned.
3. I can share how God brings redemption.
4. I can share hope.Who will you tell? - Aug 5, 2018Growing
Aug 5, 2018GrowingBy: Rob KespelherSeries: Great Choices for LifeToday’s Great Choice:
I take daily time with God for Bible reading, self-examination, and prayer in order to know God and his will for my life and to gain the power to follow his will.How to keep making choices that are great:
1. Reserve time daily with God.
2. Fill my mind with Scripture.
3. Focus on my healthy goals, not my mess.
4. Admit and confess failures quickly.
5. Flee, but don’t fear, our weaknesses.
6. Live in community.
7. Hang on and finish.