Deep Blood and Fearless Spirit

Reading: Colossians 1:3-29

We’ve spent some time focusing on a variety of very important spiritual disciplines that can help form us into deep, beautiful, and fearless people, but as important as they are, they’re not what matters most. None of it makes any difference if we don’t keep coming back to the deep blood of Christ and the fearless Holy Spirit.

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Preached on October 21, 2012 at PLWC.

Fearless Worship

Reading: Exodus 35:30-36:1; Acts 16:16-34; Psalm 96

Worship is one of those things that we don't tend to think of doing alone, and yet it can (and should) be a part of our individual spiritual lives.

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Preached on October 14, 2012 at PLWC.

Deep Community and Beautiful Hospitality

Reading: Psalm 133; Judges 21

It should be pretty clear from some of my other preaching that our treatment of and relation to others has a serious impact on our spirituality, so the call for this week is to evaluate whether we need to go deeper in our community.

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Preached on October 7, 2012 at PLWC.

Fearless Generosity

Reading: Isaiah 25:1-9; 2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Continuing with the need to become deep, beautiful, fearless people of Jesus Christ, this week we focused on how we can use our money and other resources to become deeper spiritually.

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Preached on September 30, 2012 at PLWC.

Beautiful Simplicity

Reading: Matthew 6:19-34, 19:13-30

Continuing with our "Deep, Beautiful, Fearless" theme, this week's focus was on the need for simplicity. Sometimes in order to follow Christ more closely, we need to do less, not more.

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Preached on September 23, 2012 at PLWC.

Deeper Prayer

Reading: Psalm 77, Daniel 6:6-13, 16-23; Acts 6:8-15, 7:54-60

So how do we start becoming the deep, beautiful, fearless people God wants us to be? It has to begin with prayer. This is not our work, but God’s work within us.

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Preached on September 16, 2012 at PLWC.

Deep, Beautiful, Fearless

Reading: Ephesians 3:14-21; Revelation 2:1-7; Luke 10:1-24

This week was our fall kickoff of sorts, but it was also bigger than that. I've been pushing people for the last couple of months to plan on being here for last Sunday's sermon because it sets the tone for a lot of what we're going to be doing in the future. The sermon is longer than usual (so if you download the recording, you'll get a warning that it's too big for the online virus scanner -- don't worry about that, just click on "Download anyway"). Also, the credit for the music in the first part of the recording is:

Sunsets And Rockers (Rebecca Foon) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

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Preached on September 9, 2012 at PLWC.