Archive for the ‘Series - Three Great Relationships’ Category
Connecting With Our Neighbors
Three Great Relationships – Part 7 [Listen]
July 15, 2007 / Matthew 22:36-40
Today, I’d like to finish our series with the third and final relationship we are called to embrace. We’ve discussed our relationship with God. We’ve discussed our relationship with each other here in the local church. Today I’d like to talk about the relationship we are called to have with those who have not yet embraced Jesus as the one they will follow to the end. I’d like to do this by asking a couple of fundamental questions: Read the rest of this entry »
Spiritual Gifts
Three Great Relationships – Part 6 [Listen]
July 8, 2007 / Romans 12:3-8; 1 Peter 4:10-11; 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, 21-22
Today I’d like to talk about one of the ways every believer should engage and commit to the local church. While my point today is not to launch a thorough discussion of spiritual gifts, this is a very important topic that we need to bring forward. Read the rest of this entry »
The First Church
Three Great Relationships – Part 5 [Listen]
July 1, 2007 / Acts 2:41-47
Today we’re going to look at those things that Luke said were important to the first church. The passage we are going to look at takes place after the apostle Peter explains to a large crowd that Jesus, the one they killed, was the savior they had been looking for: Read the rest of this entry »
Church Unity
Three Great Relationships – Part 4 [Listen]
June 24, 2007 / Philippians 2:1-8
As with most God-driven realities, they go against what we would think naturally. As frail, faulty humans, we tend to start from faulty, easy assumptions as we build our views. Scripture can help us correct that if we’re open to God’s heart. Read the rest of this entry »
To Follow as Well as to Know
Three Great Relationships – Part 3 [Listen]
June 17, 2007 / Luke 6:46
One of the mistakes we make in thinking about our relationship to God is in how we define “relationship”. Often we would love to define the essence of this relationship in terms of how we: Read the rest of this entry »
Our Call to the Priesthood
Three Great Relationships – Part 2 [Listen]
June 10, 2007 / 1 Peter 2:9-12
Introduction
Before we get to the heart of the topic today, it’s important that we talk briefly about priests. Many of us, for many reasons, may not think thoughts of grace when we think of priests; after all, the priests of the Bible did not always act rightly. The priesthood, however, was a VERY, VERY important, God-ordained position. Read the rest of this entry »
the three great relationships – intro
John 17:20-23, “the three great relationships – intro” [Listen]
How often have you watched a movie or television program where there is a climactic scene of someone uttering a few last words before death. It is understood by all that these words hold great meaning. All pretense is gone and now words from the heart will emerge that clarify the complex or cut through all the “fluff” to reveal the most important truths. In John 17 we find a wonderful prayer that Jesus uttered just before he was betrayed. In this prayer we find his heart. Read the rest of this entry »
the radical call to relationships
Did you know that the context of reality is found in relationship? This can be difficult for us. We often understand relationships as being useful as long as they meet our purposes. The reality is that relationships are the essence of life. Just before Jesus died on the cross he prayed something amazing that shows us the focus of his heart.
