Loud Cries and Tears

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It’s dangerous to preach on suffering because many of us are in very different places right now. Some of us are in agony, some ...

Friend at Midnight

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(Read Luke 11:1-13)

Warren Buffett is one of the greatest investors in our day, and he is also the second richest man in the world, with an ...

The Unsuccessful Successful Prophet

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I’ve read Jeremiah many times over the years, but never got much out of it, apart from various passages. There’s something ...

The Point of the Power

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I want to talk about the whole point of power here in Mark 4. What does Jesus’ power over the world, which comes from the fact that ...

Unshakeable Hope

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Happy Easter! Welcome to the largest digital Easter the world has ever seen, as thousands of churches are online right now!

It’s been ...

A Tale of Two Basins

The entire story of Holy Week can be told with two basins. And maybe the entire story of your life, and my life, can be told with two basins.

Here is that ...

'A Thrill of Hope'

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I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but we’re going through a season of change. Maybe you’ve felt it, the leaves ...

Blessed In Order To Be A Blessing

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I want to tell you a story about my uncle. My uncle is a missionary kid in Pakistan and like myself he was a bit of a troublemaker. So, as ...

The Prayer Test

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If you knew James way back then you might have known him by the nickname he had, “Camel Knees” because he spent so long on them ...

Jesus: A Power Greater than the Angels

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The focus of the Book of Hebrews is perseverance. It’s about finding strength to press on in the faith when things get difficult. Our ...

Receiving Power

This sermon is part of the “More Than a Holiday” sermon series. See the whole series here.

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We’re in the fourth week of our ...

Hiss or His?

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(Read Luke 4:1-13)

Are you interested in having power? You don't have to have delusions of grandeur or dreams of being elected President ...

God's Anger and Mercy Toward Sin

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If you want to know the three points that I'm going to walk through this morning, they are very simple. I want to talk about God's heaviness ...

There Must Be Some Mistake

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Do you know who TIME magazine's Person of the Year was for 2011? The Protester. Protesters were the big story in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, ...

Humble Leadership

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The goal for this series, "Four Pillars of a Healthy Community," is for us to look at the vision that Jesus was putting on display when he ...

When the Spirit Comes with Power

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Acts 2 brings us to an event that most of us are relatively familiar with—Pentecost. The drama we are dealing with here in these verses ...

Power, Politics, and the Example of Christ

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In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus shares some important insights on power. Mary the mother of James and John came to him and asked, "When ...

God Is Holy

The story behind the sermon (from Dan Meyer)

The idea for this series grew out of a frank appraisal I did of my preaching curriculum over the past couple ...

God Is Present and Powerful

Introduction: Our struggle with sin

We've been trying to renew together our vision of who God really is. Everything good in life flows from the person ...

Jesus Christ: His Resurrection from the Dead

"The gospel of God … regarding his Son, who as to his human nature was a descendent of David according to the flesh, and who was declared to be ...

Heart Throb

If you've picked up nothing else from our study over these past weeks, I hope you've absorbed this simple truth: the heart of God throbs for human hearts. ...

When God Doesn't Listen

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I did something I thought I would never do in my life: I went to a NASCAR race. I know some of you are big ...

An Unstoppable Force

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Last week we learned that the Church was meant to be a life-changing community, where people are transformed by their encounters with God ...

Lifestyles

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A group of scientists got together who wanted to win the Nobel Prize. They thought, What can we do that's never been done? How can we use ...

Return to Power

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We talk a lot here at New Life about the kingdom of God. The reality is that the kingdom of God comes first in the lives of God's people. ...

God's Protection and Delight

Trusting in God's Process

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Coco was a pit bull mix, just barely one year old. As a puppy she was dumped on the freeway and rescued by a teenager who handed her off to ...

Big God/Little God

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When our first child was quite small, we used to ask her, "Laura, how big are you?" She wasn't even a year old—couldn't even hardly ...

Putting the Kingdom First

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In an article entitled "A new kind of urban Christian," Tim Keller argues that "Christians should be a dynamic counterculture. ...

King Me!

The House of Love

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This message concludes our series on the four best places to live. We've looked at the House of Worship, the House of Prayer, and the House ...

What Do Christians Think About the Holy Spirit?

From the editor

Tim Peck acknowledges that any discussion of the Holy Spirit has a certain mystery to it. After all, Jesus himself compared the Spirit ...

The Kingdom of God Is Near

From the Editor

Hamilton's passage is but two verses long, but the chief idea of those two verses—the kingdom of God—knows no bounds. ...

Cross Bow

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I recently turned on the news and found myself confronted with another one of those stories that have become so common; my great fear is that ...

Body Life

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That the church is the "body of Christ" is more than simply a figure of speech. The church is the chief means by which Christ works today; ...

The Miracle of Christmas

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In Luke 11:33–35, Jesus says, "Your eye is a lamp, lighting up your whole body. If you live in wide-eyed wonder and belief, your body ...

The Prime Principle

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Abiding in Christ is simply staying near a friend who loves you. But what happens to a person who abides in Christ? If I really walk with ...

A Strange Résumé

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It's the most dreaded question of the job interview, and when the time comes, you can't seem to push the words out of your mouth. "Tell me," ...

Beyond Comfort

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Where do you turn for comfort when you encounter loss, pain, or disappointment? Some people turn to food. For some reason, certain foods—like ...

Unbreakable?

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M. Night Shyamalan's film Unbreakable begins with a train wreck. Everyone on board is killed—over a hundred people—except for ...

Battered into Submission

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Not long ago, someone said to me, "I've never heard a sermon about violence in the home. I've never heard the preacher pray about it. I've ...

Paying Your Dues

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How many of you would say, "The truth is, I really am more clued in than my boss"? Who would say, "My boss, my company, my manager, my supervisor, ...

The Second Extreme: Contempt for the Lost

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I've got good news, bad news, and hard news.

The good news: The best argument for God is the church. Everyday, God becomes accessible to a ...

God's Consuming Fire

Text: 1 Kings 18:16–39
Topic: What we learn about God and ourselves from fire

Fire. It was there from the beginning of God's creation. He said, "Let ...

Power

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"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together ...

A Prescription for Burned Out Christians

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A man went to the doctor complaining of fatigue. He described how he just felt burned out all the time. The doctor asked him to try to identify ...

Know Your Treasures

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Warren Wiersbe relates an account of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. One of the wealthiest men of his time, Hearst spent a large ...

Tongues of Flames

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The very first Christian festival was Easter. The early church celebrated the resurrection of Jesus before it thought of celebrating anything ...

Prayer Priorities

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When you pray, what do you pray about? What are the priorities in your prayer life? When you really get down to business with God, what rises ...

Salt and Light

Alienation was originally a Marxist word and Karl Marx meant by it the alienation of the worker from the product of his labors. When what he produces ...