Sunrise Church High Desert

Christians sometimes stop before God's blessing can be poured out onto their lives. Instead of stopping or coasting in their Christian life they should go forward by faith to receive the blessing of God. Listen to how we can have a great faith commitment to receive the blessings of God.

Fear is a great obstacle that can wreck our lives and even keep us awake at night. The Israelites were paralyzed by fear and did not go forward but those who did received God's blessing of the promised land. Listen to how we can overcome this great obstacle by going forward with God.

God has designed us for something significant. God has a plan for all of us to receive a blessing if we choose to take on this great challenge. Listen to how God can bless us if we take on new challenges.

What will we give the rest of our lives to? It has been said American resolutions is the goals you make for one week at the start of January. That is the trend we tend to follow when we make goals for the New Year. God did not design us to live an insignificant life but a significant one. Listen to how we can make our lives count by making the great decision to go forward with God.

Americans are going to spend just under a thousand dollars on average on Christmas presents. This is a lot of money and this heavy emphasis on presents and lights during Christmas comes from the book of John. Listen to how the grace of God is needed in this world during Christmas and beyond.

Everyone is hurting and how we deal with pain and suffering will determine the outcome of life. In America statistics show that we have been dealing with pain and suffering in an unhealthy way. Looking everywhere else except God for help. Watch and listen to how we can deal with pain and suffering in a healthy way by processing it in God's love.

We will not hear this Bible message from most TV preachers. They try to convince us that if we have enough faith and positive thinking we will have a near perfect life. They try to display that with all of their possessions on TV but that is not reality. In the real world, we have real people with real needs and hurts. Listen to how God can meet those needs for all of us who are hurting.

Stats show that the depression rate in America is at an all-time high. We have more entertainment, materials, and possessions but yet we are more depressed after 30 years. We have become more and more self-focused not having our emotional needs met. God has called us to be something more than depressed selfish people. Listen to how we can be better together by renewing our conduct.

A married couple said they thought they would be better divorced. Narrowing their options to either continuing in the pain or separating. There is a third option, staying together and learning how to have healthy relationships. Listen to how we can be better together by renewing our minds in Christ.

God's people are better together when we work together, pray together, fight together, and sacrifice together. Listen to how Nehemiah can help us achieve this goal of being better together.

How we deal with tragedy in our lives changes from one person to another. Some of us choose to use our gifts to help others regardless of who they are and some of us shy away from doing that. Every day of our lives we have the opportunity to display the worse of humanity or display the best of humanity. Listen to how we can have true unity by embracing our differences.

The key question is how do you express your differences and disagreements with other people? It is interesting that we have had earthquakes and hurricanes and the media is more focused on if NFL players should kneel or stand before the National Anthem. People have made offensive statements and negatively contributed to the disagreements. Does this help us become united or divided? Listen to how we can become united by the truth to be better together.

How do we have unity and peace in a world that is in disunity and does not have peace? The only way is by joining the body that is being controlled by the same head and that head is Christ. Listen to how we can be better together by being united by truth.

People who do not go to Sunrise Church will often ask why is this church multi-ethnic, multi-generational, and multi-cultural? The answer to that is we wanted to follow God's Word and through searching and studying the scriptures this was the conclusion. It was not a vision of diversity, but a commitment to be relentlessly biblical. Watch or listen to how we can be better together by learning that we were designed for interdependence.

The people in Houston stepped up to volunteer to help because they saw a need and took the next step to meet it. When hurricane Katrina hit, the same thing happened where churches and people volunteered to meet the needs of the people. Are we seeing the need and are we taking that next step to meet it? Listen to how we can see our need and how we can take the next step to meet it.

A week ago with all the flooding in Houston, Texas authorities were posed with a question. They received over fifty thousand 911 calls. How do you rescue fifty thousand people with only a hand full of first responders and boats? The answer is to call on volunteers to help. This is also the same answer for rescuing spiritually lost people. Listen to how we can go forward by outreaching to a hurting world.

The richest man in the history of the world is J.D. Rockefeller. Throughout his life, even with all of his riches, he became miserable. And through the misery one day he decided to make a change at age 53. That change was to follow God and live selflessly by loving others more than himself. Listen to how we can go forward by first loving God and then loving others.