Wholehearted
Mar 09 2025 • Cedrick Baker, Dan Kent, Greg Boyd, Sandra Unger
Jesus told us to love God with our whole heart, and he has given us the spiritual practices we need to align our heart with his. Through intentional actions, we shape ourselves to become better lovers of God, ourselves, others and creation! Join us as we talk about the practicalities of learning to love together, with our whole hearts.
Sermons in this series:
Cedrick Baker challenges us to walk in the way of integrity, living with our actions aligned with our beliefs. In this way of life our actions are not determined by what fits the situation, but by how our conscience determines what we will choose to do in the moment.
Topics: Disciplines,
Hypocrisy,
Transformation
In this sermon, Dan Kent challenges us to enter into the way of empathy, which he says is crucial to our ability to connect with others by sharing in their feelings. It is a way exemplified by Jesus as he entered into the common human condition so that he might know what we experience from the inside.
Topics: Community,
Presence of God,
Relationships
God calls us to live in contentment, which comes in two forms. First, there is basic lifestyle contentment, where we are at peace when our basic needs are met and we are not driven to pursue unnecessary things. Second, there is radical contentment, where we are living without anxiety, when we are facing a situation that could cause it. In this sermon, Greg offers us direction in how we can grow in both kinds of contentment.
Topics: Disciplines,
Identity in Christ,
Prayer
This first sermon in our Walk the Way series addresses the importance of practicing gratitude and how it impacts our ability to receive God’s salvation. Greg Boyd looks at the story of Jesus healing the ten lepers, and how only one returned to express his gratitude to Jesus, and in doing so received something the other nine did not.
Topics: Gratitude,
Healing,
Salvation
Greg wraps up our series on spiritual disciplines by showing us the importance of meditating on God’s word. He explains how God’s word is foundational to our formation and then concludes with specific actions that can help us get God’s word inside our very essence.
Topics: Disciplines,
Presence of God
God calls us to steward creation in partnership with him. However, the modern practices of human consumption actually destroy the very fabric that makes creation beautiful. We need practices that train us to serve as God’s creation stewards. In this sermon, Shawna Boren offers two Spiritual Practices for us to consider: gratitude and sabbath keeping.
Topics: Creation Care,
Disciplines,
Spiritual Warfare
In this sermon, Sandra Unger explores the practice of forgiveness and explains how it empowers us to live out the call to love others. We learn what forgiveness is and what it is not, while also being challenged to love others in ways that counter the primary ways of our culture.
Topics: Disciplines,
Forgiveness,
Relationships
We need spiritual disciplines which will shape us so that we can live in love toward ourselves. Fasting is such a discipline because it detoxes our dependence upon food and other pleasures, enabling us to receive what is actually fulfilling and whole. Dan Kent helps us to understand the role of fasting as we seek to love ourselves as God would have us to do.
Topics: Discipleship,
Disciplines
In this sermon, Greg introduces the spiritual discipline of practicing the presence of God. This is simply the habit of living with an awareness of God’s nearness to us on a moment by moment basis. It is founded upon the invitation to abide in Christ, as he abides in us.
Topics: Disciplines,
Prayer,
Presence of God
Greg introduces a new series on discipleship by explaining why spiritual disciplines are so crucial to our relationship and walk with God. Then he introduces us to the discipline of being honest with ourselves and with God about our lives.
Topics: Discipleship,
Salvation,
Temptation
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