Joyful Brokenness - Sermon Recap

Ezra 9-10

Big Idea: Repentance counts the cost; but it always counts Christ as more valuable.

From: "Restore: Moving God Back To The Center"

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• Some things in the Bible are hard because we don't understand them. Some things are hard because we do. 
• Our sin never stays our sin. There's always collateral damage. 
• Repentance starts by seeing God's desire in the Word and comparing our lives to it. 
• Just as sin can spread, so too repentance can spread. 
• God is not just interested in you feeling bad about your sin, he wants you to make wrong things right. 
• When we begin to take God seriously, we begin to take sin seriously. 
•  Repentance at the heart level isn't fundamentally about following your sin less and following God more. It's about loving your sin less and loving God more. 
• Repentance is hard when all you look at is the sin you're giving up for God. It's so much easier when you look at what God gave up for you.

Duty or Delight? - Sermon Recap

Luke 10:38-42

Big Idea: Following Jesus will become either a duty or a delight depending upon how much time you spend with Him.

From: "Restore: Moving God Back To The Center"

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• The practice of doing must be founded on the priority of abiding. 
• You will only be motivated to follow Jesus out of love for Him to the extent you focus on Jesus' love for you. 
• The reason we lovingly follow is because Jesus lovingly leads.
• It's God's grace that leads us to obedience, not obedience that leads us to God's grace.
• Grace isn't opposed to effort, it's opposed to us trying to earn something we've already been given freely. 

The Door to Good Relationships: Sermon Recap

Romans 5:6-21

Big Idea: I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. - Jesus in John 10:9

From: "Restore: Moving God Back To The Center"

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• There's more grace in Christ than there ever will be sin in you. 
• We ought to be a reconciling people. 
• Grudges, resentment, bitterness, and gossip have no place among a people charged with the "ministry of reconciliation". 
• Repentance and reconciliation must begin with the people of God. 

Speak Life - Sermon Recap

Ephesians 4:17-24, 29

Big Idea: Death and life are in the power of the tongue...speak life!

From: "Restore: Moving God Back To The Center"

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• Once your words have been spoken you cannot get them back. 
• If you belong to Jesus, your words are not your words. 
• We either give life or we drain it, there is no neutral exchange. What we say to others cannot leave them unaffected.
• The primary purpose of our words isn't to lead you to a better version of yourself, but to lead you to a better Savior. 
• Whatever fills your heart spills out in your words.

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Why Do I Keep Doing That? - Sermon Recap

Genesis 4:3-15

Big Idea: You will always reap externally what you sow internally.

From: "Restore: Moving God Back To The Center"

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• You will always reap externally what you sow internally. 
• Cain's descent into murder and exile began with half-hearted worship and a "mere" grudge.
• Half-hearted worship happens when we want God in our lives but not in control of our lives.
• Half-hearted worship treats God as a means to our own ends.
• Your sin seems small to you, but big to everyone else.
• Your sin is not done with you when you think you are done with it. - Tim Keller