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How to make hard decisions or Handling Problems
We have to get the mind of God in the matter. (1 John 5:14-15). The hardest question we have is, “Is this God’s will?” We have to believe that nothing is too hard for God unless it is outside the will of God. Define your problem or decision. Write it down and make it...
Work Problems
Dedicate Your Work to God and It Will SUCCEED Commit your work to the Lord, and then your plans will succeed. Proverbs 16:3 All week we’ve looked at the keys to receiving God’s blessing on our work. Here is the last letter in our SUCCEED acrostic: Dedicate your work...
7 Actions to shorten the stay in your problems
1. Acknowledge the problem. I know Christians who live with a white elephant in their living room. Everyone in the household, including the family dog, knows this massive intruder is in the house, but no one has the courage to confront it. Ignoring the problem will...
Truths about Problems
Promise – Problem – Provision Ex. The Children of Israel What’s the quickest way out of a problem? The best and quickest way out of a problem is go straight through The best and quickest way to have victory over a problem is to head or go straight towards them. Most...
Pornography
If you are currently struggling with pornography, we want you to know that God loves you and he wants to set you free. This is a sin that you can overcome. God desires for you to walk in purity and not to give in to lust. “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall...
Secret to Successful Parenting
The secret to successful parenting can be found in Right relationships = right results. The secret to successful parenting results in Leaders are learners and you are all leaders. You’re not the leader because of your position, but because of your...
How to Raise Parents – A note to teenagers about your parents
I want to talk to teenagers about how to care for your parents. Understand us. We were not trained when you came. We had never been this way before. We had no precedent. We have tried to be what you need. We have loved you from the moment that we heard you were...
Ten Steps to raise Godly teenagers
Whenever your children become teenagers, they will enter a unique and critical stage. You will no longer be able to keep the careful and continuous supervision that you gave to them as children. However, it is extremely important that parents continue their godly...
Parental Guidance
The activities that use up our time and resources during our childhood have very little to do with what happens to us in adulthood. The trend in our culture is to make our children experience RICH and relationship Why do we often overreact? Because we...
Making Godly Decisions
Learn God’s Word, Will, and Ways for Success Joshua 1:8, NIV The wisest thing we can do is get Wisdom. James 1:5, NKJV God's Plan for us to prosper is found in His Word and Principles. (Obedience) Applying God’s Word to our day-to-day situation and problems helps us...
How can I overcome loneliness
Loneliness is one of the most miserable feelings a person can experience. Sometimes you may feel that nobody loves you, that nobody even cares if you exist. You do not even have to be alone to feel lonely; you can feel lonely in a crowd. It is not the number of people...
Living together before marriage
It is becoming increasingly common for couples to live together for a season before pursuing a marriage commitment. We welcome people from all living situations and backgrounds to attend our church. When God first spoke about this issue, He said that both a man and...
The power to change your Life
What would you like to change about yourself? Would you like to be more confident or more relaxed? Perhaps you’d like to be more outgoing, less anxious, or less fearful. Most of us are more than a little interested in changing because we realize there is always room...
How we’re getting through – Rick Warren
Have I told you lately that I love you? You see two waters up here today. That means you’re going to get a double-barrel sermon. In the past sixteen weeks since mental illness took Matthew’s life one of the passages of the Bible that has encouraged me the most is 2...
Stages of Grief
While degrees of emotion vary from person to person, grief almost always runs this course: Initial shock. The moment when the news first comes, either over the phone or in person. Sometimes this initial shock leaves the survivor stunned, numb to the huge surge of...
Grief & Bereavement – Billy Graham
Grief – an intense emotional suffering caused by personal loss Grief involves acute sorrow, deep sadness, suffering, pain, and anguish. Bereavement – the grief that follows the death of a loved one. This person will often feel that his/her experience is unique, that...
Grief – Man’s Questions, God’s Answer
“Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.” Isaiah 53:4 Grief is one of the most painful emotions we will ever experience. Grief is our reaction to the loss of someone or something...
Grief and Loss
Grief and loss are inevitable parts of our lives. Most of us have experienced different kinds of grieving and loss, and the longer we live, the more we tend to see. Since they’re unavoidable, the question becomes how we can face such devastating impacts on our lives....
F-Bomb
(Romans 12:19) “Dear friends, don’t try to get even. Let God take revenge. In the Scriptures the Lord says, “I am the one to take revenge and pay them back.” Truths About Forgiveness Forgiveness does not represent weakness. It is the portal (way) to power. Forgiveness...
Insights of Forgiveness
Luke 23:34 (NKJV) 34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” And they divided His garments and cast lots. We all do things that hurt others that we might not even realize. Jesus forgave them before they asked. Jesus forgives us...