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Sermon Notes 02.05.2012

February 6, 2012 — 2 Comments

Where: Rock City Church

Series: Guard Rails

Week: 3

Title: Flee Baby Flee

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:18-20

Definition: A guardrail is a personal standard or behavior that becomes a matter of conscience.

1 Corinthians 6:18 tells us to flee from sexual immorality.

My body is a temple; and I am not my own.

5 Practical Guardrails to Direct and Protect: These I will determine in my heart…

  1. No more second looks
  2. (a) For Marrieds: I will not allow myself to be alone with a person of the opposite sex. (b) For Singles: I will be cautious and intentional about the time I spend alone with a person of the opposite sex.
  3. I will establish personal accountability.
  4. I will honor God’s design and intuition for when and where sex is to be experienced.

Note: Every time sex is mentioned in Scripture, it always related to marriage.

5. It’s never to late to begin again.

In Faith ,
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Sermon Notes 02.05.2012

February 6, 2012 — Leave a comment

Where: Rock City Church

Series: Guard Rails

Week: 3

Title: Flee Baby Flee

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:18-20

Definition: A guardrail is a personal standard or behavior that becomes a matter of conscience.

1 Corinthians 6:18 tells us to flee from sexual immorality.

My body is a temple; and I am not my own.

5 Practical Guardrails to Direct and Protect: These I will determine in my heart…

  1. No more second looks
  2. (a) For Marrieds: I will not allow myself to be alone with a person of the opposite sex. (b) For Singles: I will be cautious and intentional about the time I spend alone with a person of the opposite sex.
  3. I will establish personal accountability.
  4. I will honor God’s design and intuition for when and where sex is to be experienced.

Note: Every time sex is mentioned in Scripture, it always related to marriage.

5. It’s never to late to begin again.

In Faith ,
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Sermon Notes 12.24.2011

December 26, 2011 — Leave a comment

What an incredible Christmas Eve service at Rock City Church. Since the church just launched in April, this was the first ever Christmas Eve service and they didn’t disappoint. Record numbers in both services knew right away they were at Rock City when it began with the Worship Team singing “Better Days” by the Goo Goo Dolls. It was brilliant. The rest of the service was on par with a typical Sunday at Rock City. So glad we were there to experience it all.

Series: Home For Christmas

Scripture: Isaiah 9:6

Title: Prince of Peace

The essence of the Christmas story is Emmanuel, God with us.

The reason Jesus came was to make a way for us to come back home.

This is our shared dilemma: We are all natural wanderers.

The moment we walk away from God our propensity for sin is limitless.

We see two responses modeled by the son in the story of Luke 15:

  1. He recognized and admitted that he was wrong
  2. He started his way back home.

Jesus came to make peace between us and God.

In regular ,
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Sermon Notes 12.24.2011

December 26, 2011

What an incredible Christmas Eve service at Rock City Church. Since the church just launched in April, this was the first ever Christmas Eve service and they didn’t disappoint. Record numbers in both services knew right away they were at Rock City when it began with the Worship Team singing “Better Days” by the Goo Goo Dolls. It was brilliant. The rest of the service was on par with a typical Sunday at Rock City. So glad we were there to experience it all.

Series: Home For Christmas

Scripture: Isaiah 9:6

Title: Prince of Peace

The essence of the Christmas story is Emmanuel, God with us.

The reason Jesus came was to make a way for us to come back home.

This is our shared dilemma: We are all natural wanderers.

The moment we walk away from God our propensity for sin is limitless.

We see two responses modeled by the son in the story of Luke 15:

  1. He recognized and admitted that he was wrong
  2. He started his way back home.

Jesus came to make peace between us and God.

In Faith ,
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Road Trip Sermon Notes

April 18, 2010 — Leave a comment

It has been a few months since I last posted “Sermon Notes”. Truthfully, an entire teaching series on the Beatitudes went by without me getting any of them up here to the blog. I can’t say that I will get them up here every week, but I thought I would get you all caught up on the most recent teaching series at Journey Church. Sadly we will miss next week and 2 other weeks of this series while we are (ironically enough) on Road Trips to Half Marathons. Here is a taste of the first 2 weeks of the series:

Week #1 – Road Trip Preparation

1. There is no such thing as a perfect family

2. Choices we make today will have generational consequences

3. Every family is fixable

Week #2 – Rules of the Road (Ephesians 4:24-32)

Rule #1 – Keep it honest (vs. 25)

Rule #2 – Keep it under control (vs. 26, 27)

Rule #3 – Keep it constructive (vs. 28)

Rule #4 – Keep it respectful and wholesome (vs. 29)

Rule #5 – Keep it cleared up (vs. 31-32)

Two Questions

1. Who are you fighting with in your family?

2. How would the relationship change if you applied these rules for the road?

In Misc ,
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