And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Philippians 4:8 If you call yourself a Christian, this passage is the key through which we interpret our world.

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1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life - your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life - and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him. Romans 12:1, The Message Make our everyday, ordinary life an offering to God. One scholar refers to that as The Theology of the Ordinary. It’s with that idea in mind that I want to take look at the practice of Fasting.

Fasting

We can live our lives like Jesus. It won’t be easy, but we can do it. How can we do it? Just like Jesus lived every day of His life, depending on the presence of the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Live Like Jesus - A Study in Spiritual Formation

68 Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life. 69 We believe, and we know You are the Holy One of God.” John 6:68-69

Now, What Are We Supposed to Do?

34 Then, calling the crowd to join His disciples, He said, “If any of you wants to be My follower (disciple), you must give up your own way, take up your cross (My way), and follow Me. 35 If you try to hang on to your life (what you want), you will lose it. But if you give up your life for My sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it. Mark 8:34-35

I Will Follow Him

“I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. 3 You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. 5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing." John 15:1-5

Jesus' Definition of Christianity

What do you see when you look at the fields of your life, in your neighborhood? Jesus sees PEOPLE who need to know their Savior. Ask Jesus to show you what HE sees in the fields of your life. Then, allow Him to begin the work He wants to do in you.

Look at the Fields

Our Father in Heaven is not looking for church members. He is looking for sons and daughters.

Identity in Sonship

Is one day enough to recognize everything Father’s do? Of ALL the things a father does, I think the most important job we have is to provide instruction for our children. Fathers provide instruction, teach us how to do things and so much more...

The Father's Instruction

Jesus taught using stories to explain what God’s Kingdom is like. In the stories of the man who bought a field because he found a treasure in it and the man who sold all he had to buy the great pearl, both men discovered something they were willing to give up everything they owned to get. THAT “SOMETHING” IS A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS.

I Wanna Be Like You

6 So when the apostles were with Jesus, they kept asking him, “Lord, has the time come for you to free Israel and restore our kingdom?” 7 He replied, “The Father alone has the authority to set those dates and times, and they are not for you to know. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:6-8

Famous Last Words - Part 1

The Lord is my light and my salvation - whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life - of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1, NIV

Fear or Faith

12 “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. 13 You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father. 14 Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it! John 14:12-14

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Risk Declaring a Kingdom Identity

10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?” 11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 13 This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. 14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. 15 For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’ 16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17 For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it. Matthew 13:10-17

God's Trying To Get Your Attention

John Wimber, the founder of the Vineyard Movement once said, "the Bible/the Word of God is the menu, not the meal." We see the sermon as a way to instruct the Body of Christ how to live Godly lives in this present age. We aim to teach in a way that makes God's word relevant and applicable to everyday circumstances.

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