Sermons by Kurt Jurgensmeier (Page 9)
#4: Understanding Endtime Christianity Helps Us Appreciate Our Eternal Promises
#4: Understanding Endtime Christianity Helps Us Appreciate Our Eternal Promises Matthew 24
Real Christianity: The Sermon on the Mount #3: Real Christianity is fighting for happiness.
Real Christianity is fighting for our happiness now, by focusing on what we will experience on the New Earth, in spite of the hardships we face on this Earth. Matthew 5:3 – God blesses those who are poor and realize…
Real Christianity: The Sermon on the Mount #2: Real Christianity is feeling Happy.
#2: Real Christianity is feeling happy Matt 4:23 – Jesus traveled throughout the region of Galilee, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And he healed every kind of disease and illness.
Real Christianity: The Sermon on the Mount #1: How should we preach the word?
Jesus taught topically, practically, and with repetition.
#4: The Father has Suffered to Comfort Us
God reveals His suffering to bring us comfort in our suffering. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles.
#3: God’s Purpose for Suffering: Spiritual Growth
A purpose for our suffering is to become better. But if we do not respond to it properly, it will make us bitter. Romans 5:3-4 – “We can rejoice too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and…
God’s Promises in Suffering
God promises to intimately know our suffering, experience it with us, be in complete control, and that all of a Christian’s suffering is temporary Revelation 2:8-10: – Write this letter to the angel of the church in Smyrna. This is the message from the one who is the First and the Last, who was dead but is now alive: I know about your suffering and your…
#1-God’s Expectations about Suffering
Do not resent suffering, but rejoice in suffering. 1 Peter 4:12-13 – Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you. Instead, be very glad—for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all…
Spiritual Freedom # Renewing your Hidden Heart
Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope on God. Psalm 42:5 Why are you in despair, O my soul?And why have you become disturbed within me?Hope in God, for I shall again praise HimFor the help of His presence.