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Breakthrough Doubt

April 25, 2021 by Brad Murphy

This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series Breakthrough 2021

DIGITAL PROGRAM & BULLETIN 25 April 2021

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Week 4 Breakthrough

Today is your day for breakthrough.

“Breakthrough” is one of the most powerful words; whatever was strong enough to stop you initially, has been defeated!

Hopelessness, abuse, fear, anxiety, grief, pain… you name it, God offers HIS power to help us breakthrough.

In this message, you learn how the resurrection of Jesus overcomes doubts about God and His love for us. Through Jesus’ revelation to “doubting Thomas,” you will see evidence that demands a verdict.

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Matthew 19:26 (ESV)
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Breakthrough Doubt

John 20:24-29

Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”

John 20:24-25 (emphasis added, ESV)
  1. Do you doubt? (John 20:24-25)
  2. Do not disbelieve (John 20:26-27, 1 Corinthians 15:3-8, 17)
    • Why do We Believe in the Resurrection? by Lee Strobel
    • Four Convincing Pieces of Evidence for Belief
      (1) Execution, (2) Early Accounts, (3) Empty Tomb, and (4) Eyewitnesses.
  3. Blessed are you (John 20:28-29, John 1:12-13)

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”  
Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

John 20:28-29 (ESV)

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For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Ephesians 1:8-9 (ESV)
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But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Acts 1:8 (ESV)
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COMING EVENTS:

Breakthrough Worship Night. May 5, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m..
You are invited to worship and pray for a breakthrough in your life, our church, and our community.

April

  • 25 – Breakthrough Doubt Week 4 | 10:30am
  • 28 – ELC Worship Practice | 6:30pm, Worship Center
  • 29 – Ladies Book Club LifeGroup | 6:30-8:00pm, Zoom Meeting (weekly)

May

  • 1 – Farm to Family Food Box Outreach | Unload at 9am, Distribute at 10am
  • 2 – Breakthrough Despair Week 5 | 10:30am
  • 5 – Breakthrough Worship Night | 7:00-8:00pm, Eagle LifeChurch
  • 8 – Farm to Family Food Box Outreach | Unload at 9am, Distribute at 10am
  • 9 – Mother’s Day
    • Breakthrough Shame Week 6 | 10:30am
    • Missionary Guest: Barrett Gibson, Church Planting, Nicaragua
  • 15 – Farm to Family Food Box Outreach | Unload at 9am, Distribute at 10am
  • 16 – Breakthrough Pride Week 7 | 10:30am
  • 22 – Farm to Family Food Box Outreach | Unload at 9am, Distribute at 10am
  • 23 – Breakthrough Power Week 8 | 10:30am
  • 29 – Farm to Family Food Box Outreach | Unload at 9am, Distribute at 10am
  • 30 – ALL CHURCH MEMORIAL DAY PICNIC | After Service on the Lawn, Bring your own lunch

June

  • 5 – Ladies Coffee Talk | 9:30am, In-Person and on Zoom (monthly)
  • 12 – Men’s Breakfast | 8am, ELC Fireside Studio (monthly)
  • TBD – Wednesday Night Picnic in the Park | 6:00-8:00pm, Gerber Park, Hill Road, Eagle
  • 20 – Father’s Day

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Filed Under: Breakthrough, Sermons, Topical, Sermon Series, Featured Tagged With: Overcoming Doubt, Resurrection, Doubt, Faith in Action, Faith

What about Suffering?

September 25, 2017 by Brad Murphy

What about Suffering?

There are many types of suffering in the world.  During this season of natural disasters in North America, many are wondering what all this suffering and pain  could mean.  They wonder, “Where is God?”

Pain is a universal condition.  The Bible has a lot to say about suffering and pain.  I’ve identified 12 different types of suffering that show up in the Bible and in our lives.

12-Types of suffering or affliction:

  1. Fallen World Suffering – This includes things like natural disasters, human illness, and death.
  2. Consequence Suffering – This is the natural result of bad decisions, mistakes, and sin.
  3. Demonic Suffering – This is the direct work of our enemy tormenting, possessing, or oppressing people.
  4. Victim Suffering – This is the result of one persons sin against another and includes things like rape, human trafficking, abuse, and neglect.
  5. Community Suffering – This is individual suffering that is a result of the suffering of a community and includes things like war, epidemics, and corruption.
  6. Discipline Suffering – This is suffering that happens to correct or punish for a mistake or sin that didn’t have a natural consequence or whose natural consequence was avoided because of the discipline.
  7. Persecution Suffering – This is the kind of suffering that Christians experience for just being Christian and includes martyrdom.
  8. Empathy Suffering – This is the kind of suffering we experience because someone else we love or care for is in pain.
  9. Purpose of God Suffering  – This is the kind of suffering given by God for his purposes.  Jesus crucifixion is the greatest example.
  10. Preventative Suffering – This is suffering that prevents greater suffering.  An example is the person who had a relentless sore throat that took them to the doctor only to find out they had a tumor or heart problem.
  11. Mysterious Suffering – This is the kind of suffering that’s cause is unknown.
  12. Apocalyptic Suffering – This is the kind of suffering sent by God as judgment on the world.  It is described in the end times passages of the Bible.

Clearly, there are a lot of ways or types of suffering.  You may be able to identify more.

But why?  That’s the great question. “Why is there suffering and pain.”

Some ask, “If God is all loving and all powerful, why doesn’t he stop suffering and pain?”  It’s a good question, that must be considered.

I believe that the best approach to the problem of pain is to ask the opposite.  What is pain and suffering if there is no God?

Let me argue that if there is no God, then suffering, pain, and disappointment are all just illusions.  If humans are nothing more than conscious star dust (molecules of elements bumping into each other) then what does it matter if there is pain and suffering?

  • Who cares if one blob of star dust murders another one?
  • Who cares if 300 bags of space matter die in an earthquake or hurricane?
  • Who cares if millions of women and children are exploited and abused through human trafficking?
  • If there is no God, why care?

The reality is: our experience of pain and suffering proves that we are more than just accidents of evolution.  Our moral outrage against racism, human trafficking, war, and abuse, proves that a moral creator has endowed us with the ability to discern and experience great pain – and – great joy, agonizing suffering – and – the comfort of peace.

Without God things like beauty, love, happiness, and admiration are all just empty sentiment.  Without God things like hate, racism, rape, and assault are just a preference or dislike.  They have no value, they are just illusions of our evolved mind, they are meaningless.

Therefore, I argue, that there is a God, that suffering is the absence of his goodness and a departure from his original plan.  I argue that suffering and pain prove his existence rather than challenge it.

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The reason we know about evil is because there is good to compare it to.  The reason we know darkness is because there is light.  The reason we know pain is because there is perfection.  The reason we know ugly suffering, is because we know the beauty of goodness.

The GOOD NEWS is that God knows our pain.  He understands our suffering.  Jesus has been tempted in every way that we have, but is without sin.  Jesus experienced abandonment, natural disaster, hate, abuse, and agonizing suffering.  He entered our pain and has made a way out.  I encourage you to turn to him.  Come to Jesus!  Cry out to God and he will lift you up.

Further Reading: Romans 8:18-39 | Ephesians 3:1-13 | Hebrews 4:14-16

Filed Under: Appologetics, News, Blog, Theology, Featured Tagged With: Death, problem of pain, suffering, Doubt

Tent of Decision | Live Like Jesus Week 8

November 9, 2014 by Brad Murphy

Are you just a Christian, or are you a Christ follower?

In today’s American culture, being a Christian can be nothing like following Jesus. Christianity has become a religion. Religion is something that Jesus despised, calling religious people hypocrites and a brood of vipers.

In this series, Live Like Jesus, the Gospel of John, we will explore the Word that became Flesh. We will uncover the mystery that is following Jesus. Join us for the journey.

Listen Now to Week 8: Tent of Decision

John 7:1-52
By Pastor Brad Murphy
November 9, 2014
 

https://eaglelifechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/20141109.mp3

Follow along with the outline: Tent of Decision

  1. Living in DOUBT | John 7:1-9
    • Pursuing Power
    • Trapped in Time
    • Walking in the World
  2. Living in DEBATE | John 7:10-36
    • His Character
    • His Doctrine
    • His Works
    • His Origin
    • His Warning
  3. Living in DECISION | John 7:37-52
    • Nicodemus defends Jesus
    • Nicodemus buries Jesus | John 19:38-42

Next Steps
Answer these questions in your own personal way between you and God.

Q1. In what ways are you allowing power, time, or worldly desire to keep you living in doubt?

 

Q2. How do you need to “search and see” so that you can make a decision to follow Christ?

 

Additional Bible Reading | John 7-10 | Colossians 1-4 | Leviticus 23 | Exodus 23 | Deuteronomy 16 |

 

Filed Under: Featured, Sermons, John 1-13 | Live Like Jesus, Sermon Series Tagged With: Decision, Debate, Doubt, Feast of Booths, John 7

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