Topic: Spiritual Warfare
Stoicheion04/01/12
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The Great Contenders02/26/12
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Speaker – Shawna Boren
- Topics – Community, Sacrifice, Spiritual Warfare
- From the very beginning of Christianity, there has been contention and a battle with the kingdom of darkness. Where there is no light, we are supposed to bring light through self-sacrificial love. In this sermon, Shawna explores why we contend and offers encouragement in our spreading of the light in our dark world.
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Empire of the Baby12/19/10
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Speaker – Greg Boyd
- Topics – Kingdom of God, Spiritual Warfare, Conflict
- Christmas is a time of nostalgia when family and friends get together. Cute and serene can be words to describe this time, but Christmas and the birth of Jesus was anything but serene. The birth of Jesus was an act of war against the Empire of this world.
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Subverting the Empire12/12/10
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Speaker – Seth McCoy
- Topics – Greed, Kingdom of God, Spiritual Warfare
- Our culture is run by an empire built on the foundation of greed, selfishness, and consumerism. Jesus came to this world to subvert any empire other than the Kingdom of God. Jesus taught us the true meaning of freedom, peace, justice, and love, and He wants us to use these to subvert the empire.
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Subverting the Gospel of Being Comfortable12/05/10
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Speaker – Bruxy Cavey
- Topics – Disciplines, Fear, Pain & Suffering, Sacrifice, Spiritual Warfare, Presence of God
- There is a lot of suffering in this world and many reasons for it. God wants us to know that suffering is going to happen, and that you should walk toward suffering with the right understanding of who Jesus is in the midst of suffering.
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Getting Egypt Out11/22/09
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Speaker – Greg Boyd
- Topics – Fear, Hope, Poverty, Spiritual Warfare
- Greg shared an image that he uses to represent how principalities and powers pollute the “air” we breathe by drawing on the impact of sins committed in the past. Norm shared his story of how he got out of living in poverty with the help of a friend who provided key opportunities.
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God's Heart For The Poor10/11/09
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Speaker – Greg Boyd
- Topics – Poverty, Reconciliation, Spiritual Warfare
- We know that we are saved by God’s grace, not our own good deeds—but God still intends that we do good deeds. In fact, God saved us so that we can be restored to right relationship with God and all of creation. This restored relationship includes the activity (good works) that God has planned for each one of us.
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Animate: Final Questions06/14/09
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Speaker – Greg Boyd
- Topics – Prayer, Spiritual Warfare, Imagination
- This sermon addresses three specific questions as a follow-up to the Animate series. The first relates to the dangers of opening oneself up to the spirit realm. The second is about how we know what we sense in our imagination is from God. And the third questions whether imaginative prayer that focuses on Jesus alone is actually limiting.
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Keep on Pushing03/01/09
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Speaker – Greg Boyd
- Topics – Faith, Prayer, Spiritual Warfare
- When we pray, we’re using our say-so to partner with God to bring about his will on earth as it is in heaven. But it is not magic. Prayer is a labor of love. We are pushing for God’s will to be accomplished, against all that resists his will being accomplished.
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Praise Him09/21/08
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Speaker – Greg Boyd
- Topics – Spiritual Warfare, Worship, Transformation
- Praise Him! We may not always feel like praising God, however, there is something transformational about praise that realigns how we see God and how we see our own situations. Praise is one of the ways we fight against the lies of the enemy and walk in the victory of Jesus. Discover how praise can impact your life right now.
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Defying Tanks08/24/08
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Speaker – Greg Boyd
- Topics – Community, Faith, Spiritual Warfare
- Jesus called a crippled woman forward despite the many forces working against her. She answered the call by stepping into the powerful healing of God, and immediately she stood up and praised God. We can see this as an analogy for responding to the call of God in today’s hurting world and the powerful forces that we come up against.
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Speaking the Kingdom08/10/08
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Speaker – Greg Boyd
- Topics – Healing, Spiritual Warfare, Power
- Our passage this week shows Jesus healing a crippled woman. Jesus and his disciples regularly healed the sick and the lame and cast out demons by taking authority over the situation "in Jesus' name." This challenges us to consider the power and authority our own words and actions have in our daily lives.
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Are You in the Game?03/16/08
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Speaker – Annie Perdue-Olson
- Topics – Kingdom of God, Spiritual Warfare, Transformation
- Followers of Jesus are called to recognize the spiritual war we’re in and “get in the game” because there is no neutral zone of safety. Casual Christianity is not an option from Jesus’ perspective – he makes it clear that we cannot settle for a comfortable faith. We are called out of safe (and boring!) Christianity into the reality of a war where we stand up for truth in the midst of a world full of lies.
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Fighting the Right Enemy03/09/08
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Speaker – Greg Boyd
- Topics – Love, Non-Violence, Prayer, Spiritual Warfare
- Is there really a spiritual war? Do we believe that there is such a thing as a spiritual reality? If we don’t, we will engage the wrong enemy. Instead of fighting the powers of Satan, we will target other humans, often with hatred and violence. Spiritual warfare practiced through love and prayer is central to the Christian walk, but we need constant reminders in our Western culture that there really is a spiritual war going on.
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Scorpions, Eggs and Prayer, Part 202/10/08
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Speaker – Greg Boyd
- Topics – Faith, Prayer, Spiritual Warfare, Free Will, God's Will
- Why does it seem like some prayers work while others don’t give us the results we want? If our prayers don’t seem to work, who is to blame? God? Ourselves? Others? To begin to understand prayer, we must break free from a simplistic and commonly held “magical view” of prayer. There are many variables that affect prayer and faith and how they work together.
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Scorpions, Eggs and Prayer, Part 102/03/08
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Speaker – Greg Boyd
- Topics – Faith, Prayer, Spiritual Warfare
- We live in a spiritual war zone. We must partner with God to bring about his will on earth as it is in heaven. How can we do this? Simply through prayer! We can impact the world by laboring with God to resist the forces of evil through spiritual warfare. We can join in this battle by praying continually with faith and persistence believing our prayers will impact the kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
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Spiritual Warfare Q&A07/29/07
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Speakers – Greg Boyd, Paul Eddy
- Topics – Pain & Suffering, Problem of Evil, Spiritual Warfare
- This last weekend concluded our sermon series on spiritual warfare, a topic that can be neglected or overly stressed in churches. As followers of Christ, it is important to recognize that there is a spiritual side to our world, in which principalities and powers are in opposition to the ways of God. In Christ, we can overcome and resist these influences both individually and collectively. To bring a biblically balanced approach to the topic, Greg Boyd (Senior Pastor) and Paul Eddy (Teaching Pastor) held a Q&A time to help answer questions from attenders. These audio files are a collection of all the questions and answers addressed during our three weekend services.
Lessons on the Battlefield07/22/07
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Speaker – Greg Boyd
- Topics – Problem of Evil, Spiritual Warfare, Presence of God
- Spiritual warfare is a present reality in our war-torn world. There are principalities and powers, often unseen, which influence and distort what is true about God and His Creation. As followers of Christ, we do not need to fear these things. Rather, we are called to live in the truth of who we are in Christ, being filled with God’s Spirit and power, to come against and resist the strongholds and lies.
A War-Torn Creation07/15/07
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Speaker – Greg Boyd
- Topics – Creation, Pain & Suffering, Spiritual Warfare
- We live in a war-torn world of pain, hurt, violence and death. This is not how God intended creation to look. The Good News is God has sent his Son, Jesus, to defeat the powers of death, and to begin reconciling and redeeming the world unto God. When Jesus rebukes the storm mentioned in Luke 8:22-26, he is giving us a foretaste of the ultimate victory and restoration that is to come.
Resisting the Devil11/26/06
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Speaker – Greg Boyd
- Topics – Satan, Spiritual Warfare, Temptation
- We live in a war zone! It is a world that is ruled and co-opted by evil schemes and plans, brought forth by a real enemy, Satan. It is into this world that Christ came to bring forth a new Kingdom, not of this world, but expressed through the radical beauty of God’s love. As believers in Christ, we are participants in this new Kingdom, and empowered by the Holy Spirit to resist the lies and temptations of this world.
The Lamb of God (Good Friday)04/14/06
The Invisible Society05/22/05
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Speaker – Greg Boyd
- Spiritual Warfare
- Greg spoke this week on “The Invisible Society: The Truth about Angels.” The word “angel” is a transliteration and means “messenger” in Greek. We see in Scripture that God sometimes sends an angel as a messenger to God’s children. Greg offered these four teaching points during the sermon:Angels are real, there are LOTS of angels, angels are under God’s direction, not ours, and some are good, but some are evil.
Congruence with God08/08/04
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Speaker – Jim Winter
- Topics – Communion, Spiritual Warfare, Transformation
- This week Jim led us in a communion service. The sermon focused on the tension between the Spirit and the Flesh and how Jesus Christ makes it possible for us to be united with God in spirit. In communion we participate with our whole body as we obey Christ's command to "do this in remembrance of me." In this way, we submit our flesh to God's Spirit.
What's Really Real?02/08/04
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Speaker – Dwayne Polk
- Topics – Reconciliation, Spiritual Warfare
- Our being unconscious of something does not necessarily mean that it is not real. It could just as well be that we are simply ignorant of that reality for any number of reasons. Reconciliation as described in the Bible is very real, but it must be made known and manifested in our midst if people are going to believe in it and in the One who accomplished it.