This Sunday, we’ll wrap up our sermon series on “Mastering Your Mind” by exploring three killer attitudes that anyone of us can slip into if we’re not careful. With each killer attitude, we’ll talk about how to replace it with its positive opposite. Don’t let life beat you up! Power up on Sunday morning!
Category Archives: Mastering Your Mind
The Problem With Positive Thinking
These days everybody’s talking about “the power of positive thinking.” But not so fast! Did you know that “positive thinking” has some serious pitfalls. This week, we’ll look at both Scriptures and psychological studies that challenge us to take a modified approach that promises to yield much better results! Join us Sunday, as we resume our sermon […]
Harnessing The Power Of My Brain
For the past two weeks, we’ve talked about the power of our brains to shape our lives for better or worse. We’ve talked about the biology of the brain. We’ve talked about “negative strongholds of the mind” that drag us down. This week, we’re going to talk about three positive practical strategies for tearing down […]
The Thing In Your Brain That Holds You Back
You know what it is, right? We can all name something, maybe several things. It’s so easy to develop entrenched negative thought patterns that constantly undermine us. So we’re ushering in the New Year with a sermon series called “Mastering Your Mind.” Join us to discover powerful, positive spiritual principles that can free your mind […]
Positioning Myself For Success In 2015
This Sunday we will launch into a new sermon series called “Mastering Your Mind.” We’ll look at some fascinating scientific research that confirms what the Bible teaches about how we can best equip our brains to respond to life in deeply spiritual ways. Did you know that there are certain key things you can do right […]
More Than Meets The Eye
It’s so easy to do: Something bad happens, or somebody does something mean and unwarranted to us. We respond reflexively — fighting fire with fire. And before we know it, we’re caught up in a futile cycle of recrimination, threats, and aggression. In the end, nobody wins. There is a better way. This sermon explores […]
More Than Enough
When you think about your time, money, and energy — does it seem like there’s never enough? Most of us would say so. We feel stretched so thin. Jesus invites us to see the world in a different way — a way that gives us much-needed relief. Watch the webcast. Use the player below to […]
Stuck
There are certain places in all of our lives where we are stuck — and tempted to say, “That’s just the way I am and always will be; there’s no point in trying to change what cannot be changed.” Think again! This sermon examines a dramatic Bible story that shows us how to achieve transformation […]
Jerk!
It’s one of the most basic of all human impulses — to judge others. We know judging others is bad because it hurts others. But have you ever thought about what judging others does to you? The Bible says the impact can be devastating. That’s what this sermon explores — the impact of my judgments […]
I Want It, and I Want It NOW!
This sermon looks at the example of Esau, who sold his birthright (a double portion of his father’s inheritance, plus family leadership rights) for a bowl of soup. We’d never do something so stupid, right? It’s so easy, though, to look only at how I feel now, and what I want NOW, and not even […]
Am I Coachable?
One of the most important skills for successful living is being able to acknowledge mistakes and learn from them. But that’s painful. It’s much easier to just avoid it. This week we’ll look at how to get better at practicing healthy introspection. In this series, Mastering Your Mind, we’ll identify and root out the most […]
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
We return to Mastering Your Mind. With this new series, we’ll identify and root out the most common forms of distorted thinking that hold us back. This week: low self-esteem. Love of self — the healthy kind that the Bible speaks of — means feeling genuinely good about who you are at the deepest core […]
Think Different
For the next few weeks, we’ll look at common, distorted patterns of thinking that drag us down, and pair each of those with a spiritual antidote. This sermon tackles fatalism — a victimized pessimism that tells us life is bad and nothing good can ever come from what we do. Know anyone like that? Contrast […]