Stonebridge Church

Gift giving gets to the true meaning of Christmas. The first gift was when God gave His Son. We all need this gift, and once we have received from God we need to give it to others by giving our time and love.

In the Golden Rule Jesus requires us to love with intentional action. The only way we can do this is by knowing that God is a good Father who loves us and who can help us love others.

In these passages Jesus is illustrating the character of relationships in the Kingdom of God. We need to have people in our lives that we can be transparent and vulnerable with to help us mature as Christians.

Worry is often a symptom of being a person of little faith. Jesus said if we have faith the size of a mustard seed we could move a mountain. The point Jesus is making is not how much faith is required to get God to act, but how little. The ground for answered prayer is God's heart.

We become hypocrites when we pretend to be something that we are not. God doesn't deal with fake. We have to be honest with Him and others and confess our sins so He can work in them and with them.

Our desire is to see everyone become more like Jesus before they die. The best way for this to happen is to be involved in a small group with people who love Jesus and love you and you can be open and honest with.

No matter how hard we try to obey the law we will ultimately fail because we have a wicked heart. But Jesus is the fulfillment of the law, and when He makes us clean He enables us to keep it by giving us a new heart.

In the Beatitudes, the ones Jesus says are blessed are not the ones that looked blessed in the eyes of the world. But they are the winners in God's economy. His values are very different from the values of this world.

It is not enough to know the Truth, we must live out the Truth that we know. God is concerned about our hearts, but our actions should reflect what is in our hearts. If the Truth is in there, it ought to be coming out in the way we live.

Jesus wants us to cast our cares and anxieties on Him. We do this by humbling ourselves before Him, praying, and turning our focus from our problems to the One who is the Answer.

Making a transition from one thing to another can be difficult, but if we keep looking to Jesus He will provide us with all we need to make the change.

Making a transition from one thing to another can be difficult, but if we keep looking to Jesus He will provide us with all we need to make the change.

When we try to do things in our own strength, things will eventually fall apart and we will not be useful. When we trust in God's strength, He will hold all things together and will be able to use us.

Relationships are at the heart of life. What can we do to ensure that we are living in peace with everyone?

When we are neglecting God's plans for our lives, He will often frustrate our plans to get our attention and turn our focus back to Him.

God isn't interested in doing business with you, He wants to be in a relationship with you. When we negotiate with God we fail to realize that everything we already have is his.

We all have a Mara in our lives (someone who has become bitter from their circumstances). If we reach out to them in love and devotion, God will orchestrate things so we can introduce them to the One who redeems.

We are all headed for Judgment. The question is whether we want to be judged based on what is written in the book of our life or the Book of Jesus' Life.

The Great Prostitute described in Revelations 16-19 represents the End Time anti-Christian Kingdom. What we will see in the End Times will differ only in scope and intensity from what we experience now. We must learn to engage with Jesus to combat the pull towards the worldly values of politics, lukewarm religion, and economics.

We need the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life. The Holy Spirit seals us through tribulations, confirms Truth in our Spirit to keep us from being deceived, strengthens us to stand firm, and empowers us to do the work of ministry and evangelism.