In the final week of our Advent series called "The House of Bread" we were reminded that Jesus is the starter of our faith and his initiating love has changed us forever.
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It's week 3 of our Advent series called "The House of Bread." We were reminded this message of joy and how we serve a God that has called us to be happy and has made joy available to us.
Psalm 16
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It's week 2 of our Advent series called "The House of Bread." We were reminded this message of the Prince of Peace and his design for us to be Peacemakers not Peacekeepers.
Isaiah 9:2-7, Matthew 5
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We kick off our Advent series called "The House of Bread." This series is designed to focus our eyes on the first advent - Jesus birth - so we can prepare our hearts for the 2nd advent - Jesus' return. We pray this series can leave your soul satisfied and filled by his presence.
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Today we conclude our category of the Everday by looking at how anxiety can cause grief and how we can not only bring our requests to Jesus, but leave them with Jesus. We are led by guest speaker and former pastor John Onwuchekwa. He leads us through John 4 as we look at a story of a father who gets desperate enough to go to Jesus.
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We continue in our Framework for following Jesus looking at our last category of the Everyday. This Sunday we looked at the ryhthm between work and rest and how we are to work as a witness and rest as a worshipper.
Genesis 2:1-3
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We continue in our Framework for following Jesus looking at our last category of the Everyday. This Sunday we look at how the Son of Man came eating and drinking. We processed how the table could be one of our greatest tools of ministry that God wants us to use.
Luke 7:33-35
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We continue in our Framework for following Jesus looking at our last category of the Everyday. These are everyday rhythms like working, eating, grieving, rest and so many other daily rhythms, now under the direction of Jesus. If we are not careful we could miss out on what God is trying to show us in the mundane moments of our lives.
Psalm 139:7-12
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We continue in our Framework for following Jesus looking at the category of Connections and exploring how honesty informs our connections in community. In this sermon, Rich Perez gives us a vision for creating a community shaped by honesty.
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We continue in our Framework for following Jesus looking at the category of Connections and talking about the power of listening and how we serve a God who listens to us and gives us the blueprint to incarnational listening to others.
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We continue in our Framework for following Jesus looking at the category of Connections and talking about forgiveness. In this sermon, Dale Chamberlain talks about what forgiveness is and isn't and how it is essential to our formation to become like Jesus.
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We continue in our Framework for following Jesus looking at the category of Connections and talking about the power of proximity.
Jesus' life modeled getting close to people that others would avoid. This story is about him not only getting close for the sake of comforting, but also for the sake of confronting death.
Luke 7:11-17
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We're back in our Framework for following Jesus looking at the category of Connections.
We are looking at the way God is taking initiative in connecting to humanity and how we can take his vision and be ministers of reconciliation.
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We continue Seek First Weekend looking at God's faithfulness to get us out of the wilderness seasons of our life.
Isaiah 43:18-19
Hakeem Bradley joins us as we start Seek First Weekend with recognizing what is at play with the Kingdom of Light vs the kingdom of darkness.
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We celebrate two years at Portrait Church. We have seen the faithfulness of God move in some incredible ways. From 70 baptisms to 157 professions of faith. We believe this is just the beginning. In this sermon we are reminded of what it means to be lost, yet found by God.
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We conclude our "One Cent" series by looking at how we can leverage our pain for the glory of God and the advancement of his Kingdom.
Text: Psalm 71v15-21
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We continue in the "One Cent" series where we explore what it would look like to leverage our lives for the glory of God and the advancement of his Kingdom. This week we have Pastor Tom Lanning of our sending church Vantagepoint coming to give us a encouragement to see all work as an opportunity.
Text: Colossians 3v23-24
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We continue in the "One Cent" series where we explore what it would look like to leverage our lives for the glory of God and the advancement of his Kingdom. This week we talked about misconceptions around tithing and how we can bring a renewed picture of Jesus and his Church through our generosity.
Text: Matthew 6:19–24
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We continue in the "One Cent" series where we explore what it would look like to leverage our lives for the glory of God and the advancement of his Kingdom. This week we talked about how we can leverage our words to partner with the Savior and not the Serpent.
Text: Matthew 5:33–37
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