Challenged to Change

Water baptism symbolizes that a person no longer depends on the world for security, significance, & happiness-but on Jesus for these things.

Scholars have said the most established fact of all is that Jesus died and became alive again. Does this have any effect on your life?

Are you free of darkness? Are you fit for light?

We weren’t meant to get our satisfaction and exhilaration from our possessions, having sex, or taking drugs or alcohol. We were meant to get our satisfaction fr

Did you ever have a close relationship with someone-like your spouse or Dad? Could it be-that you can have a similar relationship with your Maker?

Do you-like many of us-have trouble with anger, or dirty thoughts you can’t shake off? Do you wonder-can I get free of this somehow?

We sometimes sense we act so that we’ll get praise from others. Is there a way to quit living like trained puppy dogs-and live freely and fully?

Christmas is our Creator coming to our earth and saying ?this is the way it is?.

Is it possible to get close to the maker of the world? Would that give you a clear perspective on life?

Money and beautiful sunsets are nice-but they don’t satisfy us. What would it be like if we relied on the one who made the money and the sunsets?

In crisis moments when we are without resources, from beyond comes a power meeting the crisis completely- it’s the resurrection power of Jesus Christ

What does it mean to be born again? There is a birth into the Spiritual world, a realm inhabited by God, we must ask God for Spiritual life.

How to meet God? Listen to your conscience, Agree with your conscience, Admit you can’t change yourself, and ask God to make you a child of God.

Life doesn’t go as we plan. Problems show us something is wrong. We aren’t like God in complete control but we can ask God to help guide us in life.

There’s plenty of evidence of people being enslaved to things, which they’d rather not be. How can we choose a different version of our life?

Asking forgiveness is hard, repeatedly- is numbing. What’s needed is a change. For us individually, a willingness to change makes all the difference.

What have you done in the last year? It’s worth considering all the choices made- where have they led? Take time- consider your situation before God.

Broken New Year’s resolutions are clues to show us where we still want to control our lives. They show us where we need help from God to succeed.

Faith in action means declaring to others what is real in your heart. Even obedience to what is inside us should be expressed to the world. That is living our

What does living a superhuman life mean? Does it mean just like Clark Kent-Superman that we have been changed? How is this possible?

The demands of life take there toll on us. Is there a way to be free from them? Is there a power that will give us freedom?

Don’t reason with your conscience–just obey what it tells you. This is faith in action.

As an ordained Methodist minister, Ernest O’Neill outwardly lived a clean life — but inside there was envy, anger, lust and jealousy until the Holy Spirit gave

We often behave like robots – reacting to situations. Years of living this way have made us feel empty. We know there’s more to life than that.

Do you believe there is a God? And that Jesus in the Bible is a real historical person? Then it must possible to ask Him why you were created.

Communion is a joyous thing, a celebration of living faith in each of our lives, receiving the benefits Jesus has wrought for us.

Angry, irritable, impatient, hurtful–is this you? If it’s possible to change, do you want to?

Are three physical symptoms that we have which cannot be rid of by drugs-only covered over? Is there a solution to heal them once and forever?

Do you give thanks for everything? God does not cause the difficult things in our lives but He does allow them if they will work in us for our good.

We can’t solve the problems in our lives until we admit that we are sinners. We are to confess to God our sins and he will do the rest.

Our unclean hearts result from operating independently of God. How do we get rid of our besetting sins so we can have a victorious Christian life?

When we receive Jesus we receive a dear person and not a bundle of principles. He will make life real to you if you will come to him directly and ask.

How do we escape God’s wrath? Repent of your sins, receive God’s forgiveness and ask Him for His Holy Spirit so that you can live like him.

Is the normal Christian life just a cycle of sinning and repentance? How do we live in victory over sin?

A carnal Christian life is a frustrating life. Can we ever be free from it? Yes. Learn what God has done for us so we can walk in victory.

The resurrection of Jesus has unleashed a new power into our universe. Our faith in Jesus releases this same power into our own lives.

You have a choice to make that will set you free to live for God and fulfill the unique destiny that He created you to have.

Anxious, worried, uncertain and confused? It is possible to live without these controlling your life.

Do you long to be free of anger, jealousy, or selfishness but can’t see how that’s possible?

Our conscience is powerful only if we heed to it and do what it tells us. Have I wronged someone? Go and confess regardless of outcome-then you will have peace.

To give us freedom from all the anger, pride and jealousy, from all the deception and distrust. Today you can know freedom from all of these.

You can’t change what Christ has done through the resurrection, but you can refuse to believe it.

A lot of us get involved in good causes. Could it be that instead of doing that, God would like you to get to know him and become more like him?

Is the basis of our peace with God our performance?

Do you hide feelings of anger, lust, distrust, pride or jealousy in your heart and think no one knows?

To take communion, you don’t need to do the right Christian things or believe the right things. What do you need then to take communion?

You have to face the evidence; you can’t continue in fundamentalist blindness to assert that the resurrection of Jesus Christ never happened.

Faith is only real to you if you exercise it. You can’t think or analyze your way into it. You have to do it and then everything opens up to you.

Discovering the way to be delivered from self, fear, worry and anxiety.

Is there still some way in which you are depending on the world, people or circumstances?

Sin is when you embrace a thought to yourself, accept it with your will and entertain it.

Are you concerned about your behavior? Anger stems from the sin of trying to control things and circumstances that are getting out of hand.

Work only continues while there is a certain amount of unselfishness in it. God has given you certain abilities to help bring His world into order.

The heart of the worry is always fear. God has already gone ahead of you and neutralized every danger.

We all want to get direction in the problems we face. But do we really want God’s will for the solution? How much effort is on our part?

How do you view God? Does he seem like a terrifying tyrant or a loving Father and friend?

Can I believe that God has really forgiven me for my sins? He regards me as his own child — so do I need to stop sinning?

Many of us are having troubles with our emotions, temper of in our business and personal lives. Can there be complete deliverance?

Easter means life after death. This is only possible through a resurrection power from outside of this world which is still active today.

Is there a God? Is there a supreme being? It’s important we ask this as an intellectual question, and not as an emotional one. This talk discusses God’s exist

Change in our lives comes when we let go of this world of senses and believe plus live as a new creation in Jesus. Ephesians 2:4-7

Is there any way to know what death will be like? What is on the other side of death? Why do we fear death? Is there a death that is not dying?

How can God love me or forgive me? Where does guilt come from? Does living free of sin mean striving and living in a strait jacket?

Is it possible to be as free of worries, as free of what others think, as free of what I have to do next week as someone who died, yet still be alive?

Why is religion so popular but changed lives so rare? Why are so many so unlike the one whose name they claim? Is there a truth they skipped?

Can we remember when we knew we needed God? Do we treat him the same? Has he become a consultant? Are we so in control we can hardly hear him now?

Does our personality get out of control? Do circumstances predict our reaction? Do we have to fall into anger? Do we have to fall into lust?

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We are not meant to be weighed down and be anxious about our responsibilities. Instead we are to commit them to God & He’ll take care of them for us.