Share Your Milestone Story
What are your milestone moments? We all have those moments in our past when we just knew that something bigger was going on. You’ve seen a child’s first step, or watched someone learn to drive a car. You know what milestones look like, so what about your own life? What about your spiritual life?
Have there been any moments when God just broke through the average and ordinary of your life to remind you that he’s real and that he’s there?
Write your milestone story as a comment here, and encourage us all!
Our flesh and our gender are intertwined. That’s obvious. What isn’t so obvious is how strong the power of the flesh can be in our lives. In this message, Pastor Jeff tackles the issue of those temptations that are specifically related to gender and relationship issues.
We also used a few YouTube videos for illustrative purposes. Here they are:
Speaker: Jeff Mikels :: Passage: Various
080-03 :: Born This Way Part 03 :: The Privilege of Singleness
The image of God is beautifully expressed through the harmony of boy and girl and it is vividly seen in marriage, but there is still a great privilege to being single. Jesus was single, he said that those who could accept singleness should accept it, and Paul affirmed the freedom singleness brings to a person devoted to God.
Have you ever thought singleness was a curse? Actually, Jesus calls it a gift.
Speaker: Jeff Mikels :: Passage: Various
080-02 :: Born This Way Part 02 :: The Purpose of Marriage
Marriage was designed by God for harmony, cooperation, vulnerability, and procreation / family. But more than that, marriage is a unique representation of the image of God. The POINT of marriage is to represent God, the result of doing so is joy! How do you represent God? It’s a one-sided, total abandon demonstration of love, as often as necessary.
In the sermon, I showed an excerpt from and made reference to this video:
Speaker: Jeff Mikels :: Passage: Various
Blogging about Boys and Girls
This past Sunday, I attempted to cover WAY MORE material than I actually had time for. 30 minutes into the message, I was just getting warmed up. So we rushed through the rest of the material, and I promised that I would post here or on my blog some more in depth thoughts on the issues.
Well, I’ve started that process, and if you want to join in the conversation, click here to get started.
