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What You Don't Know About The Presidential Candidates
In this primary season, as no other in my memory, the stands of the presidential candidates on issues of importance to a Christian have been very difficult to determine. Even though there is broad agreement among Christians on a great number of moral issues, there has been no agreement on the best presidential candidate who supports those positions. National Christian leaders seem as confused as rank and file Christians, one endorsing one candidate, one another and some not knowing who to e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Your DreamToday, we are concluding our message series "Dealing with Difficulties." In this series, we've looked at how the Bible teaches us to handle the tough times that we all have to face. As we finish the series, I hope you've noticed that we are now not just focusing on difficulties. Last Sunday, we talked about "The Joy of Thanksgiving." As you focus on God and His power through thanksgiving, you gain strength and joy to face life's difficulties.Today, I've entitled the message "Living Your Dre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Joy Of ThanksgivingThanksgiving is almost here. Thanksgiving is a time for family and food. Lots of it, turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. God has given us both family and food to enjoy, yet I believe there is something else He wants us to learn this Thanksgiving. It's a lesson that is not just for one day of the year, but something you can practice every day. Thanksgiving is not meant to be about us, it's meant to be about God. He's the one that we are to thank. He's the one that we are to b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Becoming An OvercomerIt seems to me that these days a lot of people are overwhelmed with life. What I mean is that just the task of making an income and holding together a family is too much for many people. The average credit card debt is $10000 per family and rising, despite most families having two wage earners. On the relationship front, about 50% of marriages end up in divorce. One of the current presidential frontrunners is on his third marriage, as is his current wife. My point is that the simple things ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Finding Courage In CrisisThe dictionary defines courage as "the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action." Do you have courage? Are you a courageous person? The only way that you know for sure that you have courage is when you face a difficulty, danger or crisis in life. How you respond to a crisis will determine how much courage you have. Todd Beamer was a passenger on board Flight 92 on September 11, 2001 when it was ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Defeating DepressionCurrently we're in a message series called "Dealing with Difficulties." What I trust we're learning is that no matter what difficulty you're facing in your life, there is hope. God is bigger than any mountain you may be up against in your life. God's Word, the Bible, has all the answers you need to live the life God created you to live. NLT 2 Peter 1:3 As we know Jesus better, His divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. Circle that word "everything." Everything yo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Overcoming FailureCurrently, we're in a message series called "Dealing With Difficulties." We're talking about what the Bible has to say about dealing with the difficulties that we all face in life. Those difficulties loom in front of us like mountains to be climbed and overcome. God doesn't want to see you overcome by difficulties, He wants to see you successful in life. Success in God's eyes does not depend on making a lot of money or making it to the top in your career. Success in God's eyes is found by f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Finding Peace Of MindToday, my message is called "Finding Peace Of Mind." What is peace of mind? Peace of mind is not something that comes when every conflict in your life is resolved or every stressful situation is a thing of the past. That's how some people seek peace of mind. They think that if only their difficulties in life were fixed, then they would have peace of mind. The problem is that we live on earth, not in heaven. Difficulties are simply part of everyone's life, you can't escape them.So then, how ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Coping With StressLife is certainly not easy, it can be like mountain climbing. Just when you thought things were going to get easier, another mountain looms in front of you. Those mountains are the difficulties that God allows into our lives. Everyone one of us has at least one difficult mountain that we've got to climb over to move on in our lives. This morning we start a new message series which I've entitled "Dealing With Difficulties." If God allows those difficult mountains to come into our lives, does ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healing For InjuriesWhen American adults are asked what their top priority in life is, 91% list good physical health Good physical health is an important part of life but even more important is our emotional health and the most important part of life is our spiritual health. People can get sick physically emotionally or spiritually and need healing. God wants you to have good health in all these three areas. NIV 3 John 1:2 Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, ev ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Resisting QuittingToday, I'm going to talk about "Resisting Quitting." Ever felt like quitting? People quit for all kinds of reasons. Might be that waiting in the line at the checkout counter is just taking too long, so they put their stuff down and leave. Maybe someone is in some kind of relationship and things aren't going well, so they break off the relationship, whether a friendship or a marriage. Could be that someone thinks that God isn't helping them as much as they think He should, so they bail out o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Keeping Team UnityToday I'm going to talk about "Keeping Team Unity" in our message series Faith Workout. Each of us is on multiple teams in life. Your family is a team, you should work together for common goals. Not just the parents, but the parents and all of the children are together on the family team. You're part of a team at work, maybe multiple teams. If you're in a Life Group you're on a team. If you're a member at Full Life, you're part of the Full Life team. If you're working on a ministry with oth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living With Resurrection PowerHappy Easter! What a great day to worship God together. Welcome to all of our guests. We’re glad that choose to join us on Easter. There’s just something special about Easter. The people that keep track of such things tell us that Easter has the highest church attendance of the year. What is it about Easter? What draws people to church on Easter? It’s not the Easter bunny, Easter eggs or springtime, it’s something else. I think what draws people to church on Easter is related to the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Exercising Your TongueCurrently we’re in a message series called “Faith Workout.” In this series we’re looking at many of the important themes from the book of James. James is a short book of five chapters in the New Testament. If you haven’t taken the time yet to read through it during this series, I would encourage you to do it this week. James is an intensely practical book that deals with many of the day to day issues we all face. Today I’m going to talk about “Exercising Your Tongue.” When y ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Faith That WinsCurrently we’re in a message series called “Faith Workout.” In this series we’re talking about real faith. I use the term real faith because not all so-called faith is real. There are a lot of religions in the world: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and the list could go on and on. Is the faith of all these religions the same? Is it real faith that connects to God? The answer is “no.” Christianity is unique among the religions of the world in teaching real faith.In all t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Learning TeamworkCurrently we’re in a message series that I’ve called “Faith Workout” Living the Christian life is not for wimps, you have to be a strong person to stand up for God in a world that wants little to do with Him. Your faith must grow stronger each day in order to handle the challenges that you will be facing in the future. So, we don’t have any time to waste, let’s get on with our Faith Workout for this week. Today our Faith Workout lesson is “Learning Teamwork.” Contrary to wha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Your Workout ManualCurrently we’re in a message series called “Faith Workout.” A lot of people think that faith is just about something that you believe in. For example, someone might say “I believe in Jesus” and by that statement, they mean that they believe that a man named Jesus lived 2000 years ago. That’s not what the Bible is talking about when it talks about faith. No, faith involves a commitment to whatever we believe in. That faith commitment is worked out in the actions of our lives. I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
No Pain No GainToday we begin a new message series which I’ve entitled “Faith Workout.” Faith is essential to the Christian life. In fact the Bible tells us in Hebrews 11:6 that without faith it is impossible to please God. Therefore if you want to have a relationship with God in this life and for eternity, you’ve got to have faith. But what is faith? How does faith work itself out in the lives of a believer? How can your faith grow stronger? In this message series, we’re going to learn that fa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Discerning God's VoiceToday, I am concluding our July message series, which I’ve called “How To Hear God Speak.” In this series, we’ve been talking about prayer as not just one-way, but two-way communication. Prayer is not just about asking God for things, it is about a relationship in which God speaks to His children. If you believe that God is speaking to you about a direction for your life, then the wise thing to do is to do what He is saying. But how do you know if it really was God speaking to you? ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Getting Direction From GodWe are currently in a message series called “How To Hear God Speak.” Last week we talked about five common ways that God speaks to us. God is a speaking God, we’ve just go to learn how to hear Him. Sometimes we need direction from God, but we miss His call. We haven’t learned how to get direction from God in the very real decisions that we have to make in life. This week I’ve entitled the message “Getting Direction From God” I’m going to expand on how God communicates with u ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Understanding How God SpeaksLast week we started a new message series called “How To Hear God Speak.” We talked about why it’s important to hear God and how you can prepare your mind to actually hear God speak to you. It’s very important to be able to hear your heavenly Father speak to you. Just imagine what trouble your children would have in life if they couldn’t hear you speak to them. You are God’s child and God is your Father. You never outgrow that relationship. You never grow up to the point that yo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Preparing To Hear GodToday we begin a new message series entitled “How To Hear God Speak.” This is an incredibly important topic. People who hear God speak to them are successes in life, people who don’t hear God speak end up failures. People who hear God find joy in fulfilling God’s purpose for their life. People who don’t hear God miss out on God’s purpose.Just this past week, someone made the following comment on my blog “No matter what I try (and I've tried for 30 years), I don't hear God. I l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
What Happens When I Die?Today, we tackle the ultimate God Question “What Happens When I Die?” It is an incredibly important question, but a lot of people just try to ignore the fact that we’re all going to die. However, death is not just the end. Death really is the beginning of another existence that will continue forever. No matter what difficulty or pain you experience in this life, no matter how bad or how long it lasts, it will be over in 100 years or less. Eternity will never be over, it continues on f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Why Does God Allow Suffering?Today, we tackle one of the toughest God Questions of all, “Why Does God Allow Suffering? Suffering is all around us. We see it on the news, we hear it from our friends and we experience it in our lives. Some suffering is just a momentary inconvenience, other suffering is devastating. Jesus told His followers in NIV John 16:33 In this world you will have trouble. Jesus says that as long as we are in the world, we will have trouble, we will have pain and suffering. For some people, sufferi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Is Jesus The Only Way To God?Currently, we’re in a message series called “God Questions.” We’re looking at some basic and tough questions that people have about God. I encourage you to read along in The God Questions book that we have made available. If you’re a first-time guest, you can pick up a free copy at the end of the service at the rear of the auditorium. Today, I want to address the question “Is Jesus The Only Way To God?” The majority of people in America would answer that question with a resoun ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Why Should I Believe The Bible?Currently, we’re in a message series called “God Questions.” We’re looking at some basic questions that everyone has had at one time or another about God. Last Sunday, we addressed the question, “How can I know that God is real?” If you missed the message, you can listen to it on our website or order a CD at the Information table. One of the evidences we have a God’s existence is what He has revealed to us in the Bible. However, today in America, less than half of the adults b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Is God Real?Welcome to all of you who have joined us for this message series called “The God Questions.” Over the next five weeks, we’re going to look at some of the central questions that people have about God. Tough questions that many people struggle to find answers to. I’m going to provide you with answers to those questions from the Bible, answers that will make sense to you, answers that you can use to answer other people’s questions. I believe that the end result will be positive not m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Opening Doors For OthersToday, I am excited to begin a new series at Full Life called “God Questions.” In this series, we’re going to look at some tough questions that people have about God. Take a look at the God Questions survey in the middle of your bulletin. I’m going to read through the questions and as I do, put a 1 next to the hardest question for you to answer, then 2 then 3. Here are the questions: What happens to me when I die? What proof is there that the Bible is true? If God is so good, why is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Being An EncouragerBeing a mother is an awesome privilege and a great responsibility. NIV Psalm 113:9 He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD. God wants Moms to be happy mothers of children. To be a happy mother, you’ve got to have a sense of humor. We don’t live in a perfect world, and even if we did, the kids would mess it up in short order. Some elementary school children were asked the following questions about Moms: Why did God make mothers? She's the on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Forgiving When It's HardCurrently we’re in a message series called “God’s Power For Your Relationships.” In the last weeks I’ve talked about the importance of love and patience. This week, I want to tackle a somewhat more difficult topic. What do we do when a relationship has problems? When a relationship becomes damaged? When someone we care about hurts us? Some people hold a grudge and become bitter. Others try to pretend that nothing has happened. Neither response is God’s way to deal with problems ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Practicing PatienceToday I am going to talk about “Practicing Patience.” Patience is an essential character trait that you need to develop in order to have healthy relationships. You can’t talk about patience without talking about anger, because the word patience means “slow to get angry.” The Greek word for patience is “macrothumos” where macro means “long or slow” and thumos means “anger or wrath.” So patience means you have a long fuse, you don’t blow up easily, you manage youranger ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Learning To LoveToday we begin a new message series which I’ve entitled “God’s Power For Your Relationships.” We’re going to look at how God’s power can help you with your relationships. Quite frankly, relationships are what life is all about. Relationships with family, with relatives, with neighbors, with co-workers, with people at church. Relationships can make life wonderful or miserable. We need God’s power to help our relationships be everything that God intended. Today, my first message ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Believing In God's PowerToday, we’re concluding my message series “Bright Living In A Dark World. We’ve been looking at the ancient book of Esther as a model for how we should live for God in the world that God has put us into. Our world in the 21st century AD is a dark world, but so was the world of the Persian empire that Esther found herself in the 5th century BC.Let’s review the story of Esther so far that we’ve covered. If you haven’t yet read the book ofEsther, I encourage you to read it this wee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Finding Courage To Serve GodIn my message series, ”Bright Living In A Dark World” we’re looking at how you and I can shine like candles in a dark room. As believers, as followers of Jesus Christ, ourpurpose in life is to push back the darkness around us by allowing God’s light to shine through us. The brighter you shine for God, the more power God gives you so you can shine even more brightly.The problem is that many people aren’t shining at all. They’re being overcome by the darkness, by the dark side tha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Understanding The Dark SideCurrently, we’re in a message series which I’ve called “Bright Living In A Dark World.” Even though we may all agree that the world is a dark place, God is calling us as believers to shine as candles in the darkness. The Bible speaks of two kingdoms, the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light. Every person is in one of those kingdoms or the other. No one can straddle the fence. Those two kingdoms are in conflict. There is a battle raging between these two kingdoms that has gon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Designed For A PurposeThe world is a dark place in many ways. The top headlines on the MSNBC website last Tuesday were: Fall Guy – Libby was set up to take the blame for CIA Leak, Dozens of Iraqi pilgrims massacred, Sumatra quake kills scores. You might say that the news media is not a true barometer of what is going on in the world. I think there’s a certain amount of truth to that – seems like the only news fit for print is the bad news. However, you have to admit that everything is not right in our worl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Questions Parents Should AskToday, we’re beginning a new message series on parenting called “Parental Guidance Required”. Being a parent is a great joy, but it is also a great responsibility. My wife Carol and I are in the middle of learning how to parent. We have seven children with ages ranging from 2 through 11. With God’s help we have learned a few things that I believe will be helpful to you and your children.Each of us of course had parents. When you look back on your own childhood, what do you remember? ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Finding The Right FriendsA man once had a pet canary that had a beautiful song. During the summer, the man thought he would let his canary enjoy the sunshine. So he put the canary’s cage in a tree in his backyard. Of course, there were a lot of other birds that frequented the tree, mainly sparrows. Whereas canaries sing, sparrows simply twitter and chirp. Over the course of the summer, the canary’s song began to change. By the end of the summer, the canary sounded just like a sparrow. He had lost his beautiful ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Influencing Your ChildrenThis Sunday, I’m returning to our message series on parenting called “Parental Guidance Required”. In this series, we’re talking about the importance of relationships in raising your children. As a parent, you need to influence three relationships with your children. Their relationship with God. Their relationship with you as their parents and their relationship with others outside of your home. Each relationship is vital for you as a parent to work on with your children.Today, my m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Your Children And GodCurrently, we’re in a message series on parenting called “Parental Guidance Required”. Children need parental guidance, it’s required not just recommended. Children don’t just need guidance from any source, they need their parent’s guidance. God has given each parent who depends on Him, the ability to guide their children.Last Sunday, I spoke on the importance of relationships in raising your children. As a parent, you need to influence three relationships with your children. Th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living With A Grander VisionToday, I’m concluding a message series called “Just Walk Across The Room.” If you missed some of the messages, you can listen to or download them from our website. This series is about reaching out to those around us who are not believers.Many people who are not believers consider themselves Christians. In 2006, 80% of adults in the US claimed to be Christians. Yet, only about half of the people who claim to be Christian actually believe they will go to heaven because they have admitt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Learning To Tell Two StoriesCurrently we’re in a message series called “Just Walk Across The Room.” We’re talking about how easy it can be to share your faith with others. If you’re a believer this morning, someone, somewhere, somehow, shared their faith with you. God wants each of us to get better at sharing the greatest gift we have been given in life, the gift of Jesus with others.Last week I talked about three steps to reaching out to those who don’t yet know God. The first step was simply to develop a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Three Steps To Reaching OutHave you ever wondered what the most important thing in life is? Some people think the most important thing in life is being a nice person. Others think the most important thing is to raise your family well. Still others think that having fun is the most important thing. And I’m sure there are many other ideas about the most important thing in life.How can we determine what the most important thing in life is? The most important thing is whatever has the greatest positive consequences if ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Greatest Gift You Can GiveHappy New Year everyone. It’s the first Sunday of 2007, a great year to be alive in, a great Sunday to be at Full Life Community Church. Today, I’m beginning a brand new message series that can change your life. And not just your life, but the lives of people around you that you love and care about. I’m not just talking about superficial change, but a change that will last into eternity.What I’m going to begin talking about today is outreach or sharing your faith with someone else. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Reaching Out In 2007Well, it’s the last day of 2006. Another year has come and gone. Life is a journey and the years, months and days are the stepping stones of that journey. Your life’s journey is not meant to be random meanderings, God intends for you to go somewhere in your life. His purpose is for you to accomplish things that will last for eternity. You will only accomplish God’s purpose for your life in the context of a church family that has a vision, a church family that is going somewhere with G ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Experience God's Love In JesusIf you’ve had to opportunity to watch children, I’m sure you’ve noticed that they live in a world of their own. Children aren’t interested in how much money is left in the check book at the end of month. They simply expect food on the table when it’s time to eat. Children aren’t interested in the difficulties you had with your boss this week. They want you to come and play with them. You see, children can’t come into your world, they don’t really understand it. So, we as par ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Discover Hope For Your LifeChristmas is a season of hope. Children are hoping that it snows. Adults are hoping that it doesn’t snow. Some people are hoping they’ll get a certain gift. Others are hoping that their relatives won’t fight on Christmas Eve. All kinds of hopes. These kinds of hope are wishes that something good will happen. Sometimes these kinds of hopes come true, sometimes they don’t. These kinds of hope are based on people’s wishes, a very uncertain foundation for hope.The Bible talks about a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Grow Into A Woman Of FaithChristmas in coming closer everyday, it’s only fifteen days away now. Christmas is a wonderful season of the year and a busy season. Each of us needs to be careful, that in the midst of gift buying, decorating and cookie baking, we give some thought to the true meaning of Christmas. Do your part to keep Christ in Christmas.Use the word Christmas, don’t follow the crowd and use Happy Holidays and Seasons Greetings. If your work has dropped Christmas, give them a little flack. Why is it t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Become A Man Of CourageCourage is in short supply these days. Here's my definition of courage, "Doing the right thing in the face of opposition." Why do I think that courage is in short supply? I see a lot of people just going along with the flow and doing the wrong thing. It takes courage to go against the flow and do the right things in life. The opposite of courage is simply going with the flow, doing what everybody around you is doing. The opposite of courage is cowardice, being so afraid of what other people ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |
