Steve Fry Podcast

For Christ, emptying Himself looked like being a servant. Serving is what freedom looks like. Taking the form of a servant is far more than merely acts of service or "serving people"… To take the form of a servant meant that the entire system of thinking shaped by "becoming" was nullified by Christ. Serving people daily becomes a key part of complete surrender. 

We cultivate Christ-Culture when we ‘see’ each other primarily as members of His Body. Christ is not disappointed with His Body members, so we don’t have to be either.

The blessings of encouragement, comfort, and access to the power of the Spirit are not the result of conditions we have to meet, but the source of life we already have.

A Christ-community is not just a group that wants to exalt Jesus; it is being a group that experiences Christ by participating in the Holy Spirit’s gifts together and exhibits Christ by partnering in our God assigned gifts.

Prayer is seeking God in the places we are not yet finding Him. Where we lack peace and joy, shows us the areas where we have not found God. In this sermon we will dive into practical applications for hearing God clearly in your life! 

As a child of God we need to hear from the Lord in our relationship with Him. In this message, Steve will unpack 5 simple steps you can utilize for silencing every other voice and tuning in to what Father God is speaking to you. 

Your life is meant to flow out of not just The Word of God, but The Voice of God as well.  If you learn to listen to God in and through The Scriptures, you will be far more able to discern God’s voice from Satan’s voice or your voice.

Wrestling isn’t fighting; it is competing… in a match already won! It’s not so much that we ‘battle’ the enemy, as it is that we stand in Christ’s victory. 

Living together as members of Christ’s Body is as important to recovering your identity as being loved by God is.  If a large part of your identity is found in being members of Christ’s body; and if being members of His Body is experienced in gathering together; then gathering together as a church is key to your personal identity. 

Healthy community is the core of being a society, but a society is about the beliefs, the systems and the way we function together that preserves community over the long run. A community focuses on relating together. A society focuses on functioning together.  More than any other purpose, our purpose is to reflect The Beauty of God.

If we’re ‘born again’ we’re members of The Body of Christ. Since we are members of His Body we have accepted the joy and the obligation that what we do and how we live even in the privacy of our own hearts affect each other. Since we affect each other, one of our chief aims is to keep our hearts free of offense.

Patience is the result of the conviction that God will fulfill everything He has planned for me. When it comes to loving others I don’t have to try to love them with my love… I enter God’s love for them!

You are not the guarantee of your salvation. So the pressure of your ‘self’ is off of you. I abandon myself to the love of God which takes me to the freedom of self-denial and the joy of the ‘loved self’.

The starting point for Christian community is not our need for relationships or connection; it is our common loyalty to Jesus.  The Lord has chosen to express His identity on the earth through The Church. We can only flourish as the Body of Christ when we rest in our intimacy with Jesus and let the Holy Spirit continually show us Jesus’ beauty.

The intensity of God’s desire for you is perhaps the greatest manifestation of His beauty. Jesus’ death on the cross is the greatest display of God’s desire for you ever given!  The Cross actually abolishes all sense of personal shame and unworthiness, because if God desired you this much to have already died for you, holding on to shame and unworthiness is totally absurd.

You don’t need to fight for your freedom if you know Christ is holding everything together. In fact, since you know Christ is holding everything together, you can focus on contending for righteousness. America is unique, there is a record of evangelical shaping. The more Christian we are as a nation the more we should want people of other faiths to come so we can demonstrate just how amazing Christ and His gospel is!

We get to live from abundance, rather than striving for abundance. Abundance is reflecting the beauty of the Lord though every circumstance that He is controlling anyway. God’s love is what makes Him beautiful and that love creates peace and joy. His peace and joy equals life!

Dependence on God is not a feeling of trust.. it is an act of abandonment to God. His beauty is found at the edge of our complete dependence. That is where we find our purpose and our calling- to behold God’s beauty and to reflect God’s beauty.

When Jesus died on the cross, God made a way for us to be restored to relationship with Him. We don’t have to rely on ourselves, we can rely on Him, we can trust in Him! By trusting in what Jesus did and surrendering our life to Him, the power of self is broken and we can discover our identity in Christ! A sermon by Steve Fry. 

Christian maturity is not being weaned off of dependence on God; it is an ever increasing dependence on God! We aren’t called to manage our burdens better; but rather quickly and repeatedly we cast our burdens on Jesus. A sermon by Steve Fry.