Pikes Peak Christian Church Sermon Podcast

Those that want to get rich fall into temptation, a trap, and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

People have a very different concept of what being wealthy is. We fight strive, dig, and struggle to be what the world describes as rich. We are all wealthy, if we understand where wealth resides. "But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we will take nothing out of it. But we have food and clothing, and we will but any content with that. "~ 1 Timothy 6:6-8

Pastor Matt Ross shares with us how we as the church need to be prepared for the next thing God is doing in our lives and in the Body of Christ!

The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell ~ James 3:6

The most important words you will ever speak, are the ones that bring people____________. Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. and pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders, make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation always full of grace, seasoned with salt,so that you may know how to answer everyone. Colossians 4:2-6

"Be angry, but sin not". As the bible tells us, we as people are allowed to get mad, but what we do with that anger determines how successful our conversation with others will be. in "Fighting Words" Pastor Darrin Ronde instructs us on how to fight fair, and "Win the relationship", Ref; Phil, 2;1-4

Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. ~Ephesians 4:29

No one likes dealing with criticism, but in almost every area and arena of our lives we are open to receive a critic from others. Our bosses, our spouses, even congregation members have something to say about the way we conduct ourselves, behaviors, and possibly ministry. Today we learn how to give and receive criticism well, in addition to prayerfully serving those who criticize us. God shows us the perfect way to communicate information to one another, even when it is hard.

"I began with a mind unfavorable to it. but more recently I found myself brought into contact with the Book of Acts as an authority for the topography,antiquities, and society of Asia Minor. It was gradually borne upon me that in various details the narrative showed marvelous truth. Luke is a historian of the first rank; not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy, this author should be placed along with the very greatest historians" ~ Sir William Ramsay (former atheist)

One religion says you disappear into the greater conscience. Another says you come back as another life form. Yet another says that those that have previously died, fate is influenced by what those currently living do for the deceased. Is there a Purgatory? What about the biblical Heaven? Is it for real? What about Hell? Why would a loving God create such a horrible place? Find the answer to these questions.

This question is the single biggest obstacle for spiritual seekers ~Lee Strobel author

You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)

Anyone who enters the church expecting perfection does not understand the nature of that risk or the nature of humanity. Just as every romantic eventually learns that marriage is the beginning, not the end, of the struggle to make love work, every Christian must learn that church is also only a beginning. (Philip Yancey in the book, Church: Why Bother?)

Friendships that shape our faith