Self-Esteem, Pride, and Humility
Posted July 25th, 2011 by Mike Hubbard
“God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” – James 4:6 Most of us would not associate self-esteem with pride. In a very real way, our culture has told us that self-love is the key to happiness, achievement, and worth. Our children are often told that the problem is that they do not […]
Posted in All About Life, Living the Gospel, Sermon Thoughts | Tags: Humility, Pride, self-esteem
Marriage, Divorce, & Remarriage – Position Paper from the Elders
Posted July 20th, 2011 by Mike Hubbard
This past Sunday the sermon from Mark 10 dealt with the topic of Marriage and Divorce. We know that this topic will raise a lot of questions, and there is not enough time in a sermon to deal with all of these. So the Elders have composed a position paper and published it here to […]
Posted in All About Life, Church Life and Issues, Downloads, Family Life, Living the Gospel, Sermon Thoughts, Theological issues | Tags: Divorce, Marriage
iPray – Ideas for using prayers of Lament
Posted June 1st, 2011 by Mike Hubbard
This week we took a look at a type of Psalm that contains prayers of Lament. These are prayers where people honestly open their heart to God by expressing anger, frustration, disappointment, and feelings of abandonment to God. These prayers give us permission to cry out to God when life doesn’t make sense or the […]
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Downloading the Confession App – Integrating confession and repentance in your prayers
Posted May 24th, 2011 by Mike Hubbard
Continued talking about prayer this past Sunday, with our focus on confession and repentance in our prayers. As we have done each week of this series, I wanted to post a blog that I hope will become interactive with ideas on how people can incorporate prayers from this week’s them in their lives. This list […]
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Cross Chart – What Confession and Repentance produces
Posted May 23rd, 2011 by Mike Hubbard
The sermon yesterday dealt with creating a life of confession and repentance in our prayers. During the sermon I mentioned and displayed the Cross Chart created by Bob Thune from Corem Deo Church in Omaha. This chart is a terrific image of how true growth in our faith happens. The basic idea here is that […]
Posted in All About Life, Living the Gospel, Sermon Thoughts | Tags: Bob Thune, Confesssion