Mountain Ridge Church

In chapter 3 of 1 Corinthians, Paul addresses those Christians who's lives don't look much different than the world around them, and we can all relate to living a Christian life sometimes. Are you giving your best for God?

The Holy Spirit literally unlocks our spiritual eyes and ears to live a different life, a life of Spiritual Maturity. Do you depend on the Holy Spirit in your life? Do you allow this God given GPS device to guide you through life?

Do you feel stuck? For a Christ follower the Cross isn’t just what Jesus did, it should be the place we go to take our mess, our selfishness, our fleshy desires to die each and every day. How do you view the cross?

Today we are opening our series on the book 1 Corinthians. After today, we hope that you have a clear understanding of the timing of this letter, the author, the city and what this letter means to us.

When we trust, we are giving up control over things, knowing that the one we trust will keep their word. We give up control and trust that whatever we gave over will be taken care of. It’s why Solomon says that we should, in all our ways, know Him intimately.

What if busyness is more than just something you are stuck in? What if busyness is actually us rebelling against God? What if it is exactly the same thing as our children pushing against what we ask even as we know what we are asking them to do will actually help them?

Mountain Ridge Church

When we understand that Jesus is truth, and when we live in a relationship with Him, and follow Him believing that He is truth, we are free! Free from what? We are free to live for Him!

Jesus is our way to eternal life. Jesus is the answer to the sin problem. Remember that sin is the divider between us and God. And Jesus was God’s loving answer to sin. The answer, the way is Jesus.

Happy Easter! We begin a new series today called My Story, and to start it off, on Easter Sunday, we want to talk about what God did for us. Religion will always have you trying to earn something. You will always have to work for God’s love, His grace, and your own salvation but there is a huge problem with that idea…it runs completely opposite of what our Bible tells us.

Are you so focused on God so that you can engage community well, or have you started to let go of the rope? Are you seeing weeds of bitter discontentment in your life? Are you allowing your desires to lead you? Remember who you are!

As we chase our desires we are becoming isolated from God and it’s ruining us. We do what we want to, when we want and how we want, and we resent anyone bringing God into it. Maybe we need to understand that what is normal in our culture is nothing more than idol worship.

One of the major ways that our enemy comes at us is by using things that God wired into us. Today we are going to look at probably the biggest and maybe the easiest target of our enemy: He will come at us and use our appetites against us.

The last thing your enemy would ever want you to know about what is really at the very center of all the enemy is up to. He is doing whatever he can to get you to chase everything and anything around other than God to find fulfillment, to find peace, to find life… and none of it will work.

If I could give you one spiritual principle that would take care of 90% of all of your spiritual warfare issues, would you be interested in hearing it?

What do you do when you face a battle that is overwhelmingly …physical?

For so many of us the biggest blocker in our spiritual journey is us. We don’t see a life filled with God’s love pouring in and pouring out of us and it’s because we are working really hard at all we need to do, to be a success, to be a good Christian, and to follow all the rules. In all of it we just aren’t willing to lean fully on God.

Think about this: God’s life sends the message to us, “Your well-being is more important than my well-being.” What message does the local church send to their community? God wants to redeem your world through you in the local church. You have the ability to bring God and your world together through prayer.

If you grew up around religion your focus is probably on sin, and rules, you know the do’s and don’t do’s… when your focus is on sin and not love, Christianity will always look and feel like work to you because your focus determines your experience. Our focus shouldn't be on us, it should be on God and His love for us.

Evil is always trying to get you to make the worst trade of your life. To trade God for sin. Every time sin is offered to us, and it looks better than what God offers, and we go after sin, we have to know the deal we are making.