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Infuse | Gentleness

October 21, 2013 by Brad Murphy

This sermon is part 8 of 9 in the Infuse | Galatians 5:22-24

We are compelled by God’s LOVE and the FREEDOM offered in Jesus to infuse our relationships with the mind of Christ. As the Spirit of God directs our life, we take on the CHARACTER of the Spirit. This Fall we will ask God to INFUSE in us the love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control of Christ through the Holy Spirit!

Listen to Infuse GENTLENESS
October 20, 2013 | Pastor Brad Murphy
Galatians 5:22-24, Philippians 4:2-7, Matthew 18:15-35

Join-Up in Gentleness

Monty Roberts learned that the way to train a horse was through violence and dominance. As a boy he watched his dad tame many wild horses. But as Monty grew up he wondered if there wasn’t a better way. After years of observing horses in the wild, Monty developed a gentle method of taming called Join Up®. His process leads a horse to become a Willing Partner with its rider instead of fearful subject of their rider. Through his gentle and loving method many horse lovers have come to enjoy riding their Willing Partner better than any horse tamed another way.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
– Proverbs 15:1

Throughout the Bible God reveals through His humility and gentleness the lesson that Monty learned isn’t just true of horses, but of people too. Saint Paul instructs the church to “Let your gentleness be known to all. The Lord is near.”

Through this lesson, Join-Up in Gentleness, we learn to allow the Spirit of God to infuse the character of Christ’s gentleness into our daily lives. Gentleness is an outer garment that believers wear in every relationship. It isn’t meant to be an inner garment that only those who are closest to us experience, it should be the first thing people experience when they meet us.

Let your Gentleness be known to all. The Lord is near.
– Colossians 3:12

Infuse | Kindness

September 23, 2013 by Brad Murphy

This sermon is part 4 of 9 in the Infuse | Galatians 5:22-24

We are compelled by God’s LOVE and the FREEDOM offered in Jesus to infuse our relationships with the mind of Christ. As the Spirit of God directs our life, we take on the CHARACTER of the Spirit. This Fall we will ask God to INFUSE in us the love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control of Christ through the Holy Spirit!

Listen to Infuse KINDNESS
September 22, 2013 | Brad Murphy
Galatians 5:22-24, Luke 10:25-37

Kindness | Compassion in Action

This week Pastor Brad discusses the big idea, Kindness is Compassion in Action. Jesus Christ demonstrated his kindness toward us, not only with words and understanding, but in action. In the same way, we demonstrate kindness, because Christ’s Spirit in us causes us to bear this fruit.

Kindness is willing to take compassionate action
Kindness is willing to take a risk
Kindness is willing to put other first
Kindness is willing to pay the price
Kindness is willing to finish what it starts
Kindness is willing to glorify God

On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

“What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”

He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”
– Luke 10:25-28

Infuse | Peace

September 15, 2013 by Brad Murphy

This sermon is part 3 of 9 in the Infuse | Galatians 5:22-24

We are compelled by God’s LOVE and the FREEDOM offered in Jesus to infuse our relationships with the mind of Christ. As the Spirit of God directs our life, we take on the CHARACTER of the Spirit. This Fall we will ask God to INFUSE in us the love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control of Christ through the Holy Spirit!

Listen to Infuse PEACE
September 15, 2013| Brad Murphy
Galatians 5:22-24, 2 Corinthians 5:14-21; 6:1-2; Romans 5:1-11

Infusion vs. Transfusion

How can we have peace with God and with others? By welcoming the salvation of God and experiencing the reconciliation offered in Christ. This weeks big idea, A Peace Infusion From a Sin Transfusion reminds us that Jesus Christ, the one who knew no sin, became sin for us. God transfused our sin upon Himself so that he could infuse his peace unto us.

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
– 2 Corinthians 5:21

That great exchange, brings peace to the weary, hope to the worn down, and life to the complacent.

Infuse | Joy

September 8, 2013 by Brad Murphy

This sermon is part 2 of 9 in the Infuse | Galatians 5:22-24

We are compelled by God’s LOVE and the FREEDOM offered in Jesus to infuse our relationships with the mind of Christ. As the Spirit of God directs our life, we take on the CHARACTER of the Spirit. This Fall we will ask God to INFUSE in us the love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control of Christ through the Holy Spirit!

Listen to Infuse JOY
September 8, 2013 | Brad Murphy
Galatians 5:22-24, Luke 10:17-24

Restore Joy!

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
-J.D. Salinger

Are quotes like this an excuse to be grumpy Christ followers. I think so.

“I don’t have to be happy right now, but I have the joy of God.” Really?

Aren’t joyful people happy? Isn’t that why you say they are joyful?

You can be one of those people.

Pastor Brad searched the New Testament and found that happy, joy, and blessedness are used interchangeably. The Joy God gives, by His Spirit, will help you be a happy person. Listen to this encouraging message to discover how to Restore Joy, the Real McCoy.