Tag Archive - Preaching

The Will of God

April 19, 2010 in Church, Jesus, Preaching, Reading with 0 Comments

Here are a couple of quotes I used this past weekend from Francis Chan’s book, the Forgotten God.

“It is easy to use the phrase ‘God’s will for my life’ as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. It’s much less demanding to think about God’s will for your future than it is to ask Him what He wants you to do in the next ten minutes. It’s safer to commit to following Him someday instead of this day.”


“You don’t need the Holy Spirit if you are merely seeking to live a semi-moral life and attend church regularly. You can find people of all sorts in many religions doing that quite nicely without Him. You only need the Holy Spirit’s guidance and help if you truly want to follow the Way of Jesus Christ. You only need Him if you desire to ‘obey everything’ He commanded and to teach others to do the same. You only need the Holy Spirit if you have genuinely repented and believe. And you only need the Holy Spirit if you understand that you are called to share in Christ’s suffering and death, as well as His resurrection… If you truly believe and have turned from the way you were headed and joined a different Way of living, then you desperately need the Holy Spirit. You know you cannot live this Way without the Spirit in you.”


Living by the Spirit of God each day is a choice, as is understanding the will of God. Don’t worry about getting the whole picture in advance – rarely does God work that way (although I’m sure guys like Noah, Abraham, and Moses would have appreciated it). Focus on living for Him a moment at a time and learning to allow His Spirit to be your driving force.


On a side note, if you are a Francis Chan fan (say that ten times fast) then you might be interested in watching this video where he explains that he just stepped down from his church ministry position and why.

The Hatred of God

January 27, 2010 in Bible, Preaching with 0 Comments

I spoke at our Men’s ministry group called Ironman last week. My topic was “A God of Hate vs. a God of Love.” I’ve never said anything before that has caused that much spiritual vertigo (to my knowledge). If you’re interested, you can give it a listen by clicking here.


Deploy to Your Community

September 25, 2009 in Open Source, Preaching with 2 Comments

Here’s your chance to add to the messages at Central each week as we employ open source sermon prep (or more accurately, “crowd sourcing”). In a couple weeks, we’ll be in our series, Now More Than Ever, where we’ll be celebrating 50 years as a church. The focus of this series will be on carrying our cross and how we can fulfill the third D of our strategy (discover, develop, deploy). We’ll be highlighting 50 ways in 50 days on how to serve others. Let’s brainstorm for the week where we’ll deploy to your community.


So if you can take a moment, please leave a comment with any ideas you come up with concerning movie clips, quotes, scriptures, illustrations, stories, etc. for the topic of deploying (or serving) to your community. The sky is the limit, so think creatively and share some of your genius with us.

Deploy to Church

September 17, 2009 in Open Source, Preaching with 5 Comments

Here’s your chance to add to the messages at Central each week as we employ open source sermon prep (or more accurately, “crowd sourcing”). In a couple weeks, we’ll be in our series, Now More Than Ever, where we’ll be celebrating 50 years as a church. The focus of this series will be on carrying our cross and how we can fulfill the third D of our strategy (discover, develop, deploy). We’ll be highlighting 50 ways in 50 days on how to serve others. Let’s brainstorm for the week where we’ll deploy to the Church.


So if you can take a moment, please leave a comment with any ideas you come up with concerning movie clips, quotes, scriptures, illustrations, stories, etc. for the topic of deploying (or serving) the Church. The sky is the limit, so think creatively and share some of your genius with us.

Deploy to Friends

September 10, 2009 in Open Source, Preaching with 1 Comment

Here’s your chance to add to the messages at Central each week as we employ open source sermon prep (or more accurately, “crowd sourcing”). In a couple weeks, we’ll be in our series, Now More Than Ever, where we’ll be celebrating 50 years as a church. The focus of this series will be on carrying our cross and how we can fulfill the third D of our strategy (discover, develop, deploy). We’ll be highlighting 50 ways in 50 days on how to serve others. Let’s brainstorm for the week where we’ll deploy to our friends.


So if you can take a moment, please leave a comment with any ideas you come up with concerning movie clips, quotes, scriptures, illustrations, stories, etc. for the topic of deploying (or serving) to friends. The sky is the limit, so think creatively and share some of your genius with us.

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