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HELL PROOF MY HOME | Week 3, Pt.1
Posted by: | CommentsThe following is an excerpt from The Dialogue Church’s current sermon series, HELL PROOF MY HOME. Here is a short description of the series:
Hell has a wanted poster with your family portrait on it. These dark forces have waged war on Heaven’s plan for a happy and successful family. Thus, the biblical model for home-life is under attack and people are suffering the tragic consequences in their relationships, sex-life, parenting, and finances. In this series, Pastor Steve unpacks some heavy artillery from the Bible to help families fight back and become homes of healing instead of houses of hurting.
You can listen online to any of these messages at www.theDC.tv/listen.
IT IS IN FAMILIES WE ARE BROKEN AND IT IS IN FAMILIES THAT WE ARE HEALED.
Most people can trace their baggage (emotional, relational, and spiritual) all the way back to their childhood and their upbringing. Now, this doesn’t mean we should blame our decisions on our upbringing, we have to own our own decisions. With any mistakes in life, WE MUST OWN IT BEFORE WE CAN OVERCOME IT! But, it does demonstrate the amazing impact HOME-LIFE has on our entire existence. Those few formative years really to form who we are. But just as we are broken in FAMILY, we can also be healed in FAMILY! This series is all about turning our houses of hurting into homes of healing.
Too many of us are living defeated lives because of “something in our past”. We must begin to deal with the “junk in our trunk” if we want to live a life of real freedom, which is only found in the Person of Jesus Christ!
I believe this series can change the course of our culture. As the family goes, so goes the church, as the church goes so goes the community, as the community goes so goes the culture!
Christmas Is Forgiving, Pt.7
Posted by: | CommentsI yes, I alone am the one who blots out your sins for my own sake and will never think of them again. (Isaiah 43:25 NLT)
GOD CHOOSES NOT TO REMEMBER MY SINS . CAN I DO THE SAME WITH OTHERS?
God chooses not to remember your sins. Can you do the same with others?
I have a hard time with the part “NEVER THINK OF THEM AGAIN”. I want to hold onto them; that’s a grudge. A grudge is when we harness our hurt to hurt others. Hurt people, hurt people. Resentment means to re-think. We are thinking of this hurt over and over again. When GOD FORGIVES HE TRULY FREES US AND HE DOESN’T THINK OF IT AGAIN – INSTEAD HE GIVES US GRACE, or ROOM TO CHANGE.
GOD DOESN’T ACCIDENTALLY FORGET – HE CHOOSES NOT TO REMEMBER – THAT’S INTENTIONAL; that’s a CHOICE!
Forgiveness is a choice, not a feeling. If you wait till you feel like forgiving it will never happen. Nobody wakes up one morning thinking, “GEE, I JUST CAN’T WAIT UNTIL SOMEBODY BACK-STABS ME, SO I CAN TURN AROUND AND JUST RELEASE THEM.” Nobody feels like forgiving.
The MIRACLE is not FORGETTING THE OFFENSE – the miracle is OPTING TO FORGIVE! When we opt to forgive, healing starts to happen! We want God to heal us in order to forgive, but God says healing happens when we choose to forgive!
Christmas Is Forgiving, Pt.6
Posted by: | CommentsYou must make allowance for each other’s faults and forgive the person who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. (Colossians 3:13 NLT)
FORGIVENESS IS A GIFT. When we offer somebody forgiveness we are offering them room to change; we are giving people some margin to change. Isn’t that what we all need? Don’t we all need a little more room to change, a little more space for transformation?
God is challenging us to ALLOW ROOM FOR ONE ANOTHER TO CHANGE. FORGIVENESS OFFERS SPACE TO CHANGE – IT SAYS “YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE PERFECT TO BE LOVED BY ME”.
Forgiveness says, “You can be imperfect and I will still love you and accept you.” Wow, what relationship wouldn’t thrive in that kind of environment!
