ALL SAINTS :: Podcast

Be Healed!

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 03:00:00 GMT

We are looking at the power of prayer to heal. What an important subject to understand and make personal. Prayer is vital to the growth and maturity of any Christ follower, the power of prayer can and does heal. James says that prayer actually has the power to change things as they are, to literally make a difference in the environments that we live, in our bodies and our hearts.

Be Healed!
James 5:13-18

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Patience Is Waiting

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:00:00 GMT

If you think about sin as the biggies, murder, stealing, cheating you feel pretty good. You all aren’t doing that, right? James is talking here about impatience, pettiness, jealousy, forgetting God. Attitudes in the daily way we live. At any moment you can follow the way of heaven or hell. The way of heaven is, my life for yours (serving). The way of hell is, your life for mine (consume). It’s decisions and choices and attitudes! That will determine who you are a million years from now. Let’s make this practical, there are people you want to know that will profit you. (opposite sex, career people, etc). In other words, your life for mine. There are others people who won’t profit you at all, your attitude toward them will decide the path you are choosing. Your life for mine, or my life for yours, which is it?

Patience is Waiting
James 5:7-11

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Clutter and Stuff

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:00:00 GMT

We are going to look at the problem of fruitlessness caused by the misleading comfort of money; this leads to materialism and greed. The passage is very harsh and it is direct and not at all easy. Why is James so harsh? Because fruitlessness is very problematic! A lack of growth. No transformation. Not saying that you aren’t a follower of Jesus, but don’t comfort yourself with a false assurance either, repent. It's about time for all of us to start going deeper.

Clutter and Stuff
James 5:1-6

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What, Me Worry?

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:00:00 GMT

This morning we are going to look at how we control our circumstances. A normal and natural aspect to our life is how we set schedules. “today or tomorrow we are going to this place…” We set goals, time periods, make money. Is James saying we shouldn’t do that? I wish it were that easy.

James is arguing that we commit a sin that is so pervasive that we don't even know it. What is this sin? James says its when we make our plans, do our work, play, conduct our relationships and not include God. We therefore worry and fret over circumstances that naturally happen because we don't include in every aspect of our life.

What, me worry?
James 4:13-17

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Clear Communication

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:00:00 GMT

He never simply says don’t slander, don’t be bias against the poor. He always goes to the heart not to the will. This is the secret to living the life of a Christ follower. James is going to ask us, “are you a slanderous/judgmental person?” If you are judgmental, of course he say stop it, but it’s not because you are bad, you don’t get the gospel. Your heart has been untouched by the core of the gospel itself.

James doesn’t let us off the hook by saying, “you are a bad person.” He is saying, you don’t understand! Here’s what he is doing for us this morning, he is going to start off and say, here is good communication and he will lay out a blue print for our behavior. He won’t lay out the blue print and “do it.” He lays out there and says, “here’s how you become a person like this.

Clear Communication
James 4:11-12; 5:12

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What Have You Got That I Ain't Got? Courage!

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 03:00:00 GMT

As a Christ follower, not living this life out is a failure to remember who you are, a great, loved person. James never says, “be good!” He is saying, be bold, be courageous, be holy, be humble, pray…it’s not merely this!!! In this passage he gives a huge reminder of what it means to follow Jesus. He wants us to think about this until it melts us into bold, courageous, praying, giving, humble people.

What Have you got that I ain't got? Courage!
James 4:4-10

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Put Up Your Dukes!

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:00:00 GMT

We are going to finish up James and here is our first installment!

More often than not, we aren’t peacemakers, we have conflicts with our friends, coworkers, spouses. Sometimes they are ongoing and sometimes they are like flashes of light, or they are like cold wars. James is telling us this is a common thing, but it really isn’t a proper thing.
We play a little game with ourselves and with the people we are warring, fighting with. We throw in some concern just to throw them and ourselves off a bit. So we can justify, in a sense, our irritation or lack of desire to make the relationship right.

I am sure we would all agree it can be quite draining to have conflict with people not matter what style your conflicts take. We don’t like the experience inside of us when we feel defensive, or in conflict with others. We want to get rid of it.

Put Up Your Dukes
James 4:1-3

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Is There No One Who Can Do Anything For Me?

Sun, 30 May 2010 03:00:00 GMT

How is it that we come to understand what is "good?" More importantly, why is it that we can so clearly see that we don't measure up to our own standards of goodness in how we live? Humanity has wrestled with this for millennia and it continues to occupy a lot of our thoughts and energy. In a very authentic piece of writing, Saint Paul discloses his own struggles in this area and then sums up his frustration in the question, "Is there no one who can do anything for me?"

Thankfully, Paul doesn't just leave us with the question but walks us through to the answer. In that answer, we find both hope and help to live life on God's terms. And that's a life of incredible personal freedom that benefits us and those who are privileged to live around us.

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Which Of These...

Sun, 23 May 2010 03:00:00 GMT

Essentially, the center of this sermon (and passage) is loving God and our neighbors in and through Jesus at the center. More descriptively, my general organization and movement of the sermon is to set-up the context and then ask “Which of these...” characters in the passage do we look most like, i.e. The Priest and Levite, the Good Samaritan and/or...the Man? The central teaching of this passage is that, individually and corporately, we most resemble that Man laying by the side of the road and it is Jesus who is the Good Samaritan, and on the basis of “being loved, healed, saved, etc.” we as individuals and corporately (as the Church) may participate with Jesus in “loving, healing, saving, etc.” others.

Luke 10:25-37

Which Of These...

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An Oxymoron : Alpha Sheep

Sun, 16 May 2010 03:00:00 GMT

This morning we are at the end and we are going to see one more thing that we have to have to make it through the struggles of life. It says that we need a Shepherd! We are going to look at our humble need for a Shepherd, the surprising identity of a Shepherd, and the secret power of the Shepherd we need.

An Oxymoron: Alpha Sheep
Hebrews 3:13, 10:24-25, 13:17-25

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