If you want to make a gift/offering to Hope in Christ Church, click here to learn about ways to give. Sermon Outline Introduction on Thankful People… Thanks directed to God consistently and with Joy (1:3-5) Act of Thanks Notice who Paul directs his thanks toward. Notice the personal way Paul addresses God. Notice this is…
If you want to make a gift/offering to Hope in Christ Church, click here to learn about ways to give. Sermon Outline Prayer isn’t easy Sometimes it involves pain and deep emotion (Heb 5:7) 2 words used for praying: prayers: (Acts 1:16, 2Cor 1:11) supplication: 2 strong emotions: loud cries: (Lk 1:42, Ex 11:6)…
Sermon Outline Have you ever forgotten something? (Mk 8:14-15, 7:36, 5:43) Leaven What is it? How does it work? What does it accomplish? What is important for us to keep in mind is that ancient leaven involved something that seemed small, trivial, even minute/unseeable, but it resulted in the entire batch of dough being transformed……
Sermon Outline Importance of Praying Scripture To pray the Scriptures is to tap into the very heart and desire of God Some examples: Mary’s Magnificat (Lk 1:46-55) // Hannah’s prayer (1Sam 2:1-10) Believer’s Prayer for Boldness (Acts 4:23-31) // Gen 1, Ps 2, et al. The Lord’s Prayer (Mt 6:9-13) The OT Background to…
The Song lyrics are included in the youtube post, or you can download this lyric sheet, by clicking on the link to the right: HICC Lyrics 3.29.20 Sermon Outline Introduction (James 1:5, 3:17) Daniel 2 – Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream The Chronology Problem (Dan 2:1) The Dream (Dan 2:1) Dreams in Bible God gave dreams to warn…
Sermon Outline Bold Requests The Centurion’s Prayer Request Capernaum, Jesus’ hometown (Mt 4:23, 4:13, 8:14. Lk 7:2-5, Mt 11:23-24) Centurion Statement of Fact (Mt 8:6) My servant – (Mt 2:16, 17:14-21, Lk 7:7) Suffering terribly – (Mt 14:24, Rev 12:2) Is Jesus’ response a statement or a question? (Mt 8:7, 15:24-28) The Centurion’s reply…
Sermon Outline Crying out to God Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36-44) Context End of Jesus’ life, on the final night, Gethsemane Importance of Prayer (Mt 26:36-27) Prayer is supposed to be a group event (Mt 26:36-37) Sitting, watching, praying are all words meant as an invitation to join with Jesus in seeking the Father. (Mt…
Sermon Outline Growing weary in prayer The Parable Proper (Lk 18:2-5) The Judge (Lk 18:2) Francois Bovon notes “He disobeyed the two most important commandments” What kind of hope would you have living in a city like that? The Widow (Lk 18-3) Frequently they are categorized with orphans and aliens by the prophets – people…
Sermon Outline Introduction When words aren’t enough (Ps 5:1-2) 3 Sentences and the intensifying parallelism in them The psalmist is praying to his God and King Persistence in seeking relief from God (Ps 5:3a) Hear: a Reason for an assurance of an answer Expectation of an answer (Ps 5:3b) God hates evil and evildoers (Ps…
Sermon Outline “The Least I can do it pray for you.” As one author wrote, “”Prayer does not equip us for greater works prayer is the greater work.” Why Pray? We are called to be a people of prayer (Is 56:6-7, 1Pet 2:5, 1Cor 3:16) The Lord is at hand (Phil 4:5b) Because it…