By Steve Cornell,
Listen to the Sermon:
http://www.millersvillebiblechurch.org/_audio/Be%20Renewed%20in%20the%20Spirit%20of%20Your%20Minds%20(pt%202)%2011-29-09.mp3
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Your Eighteen Year factor:
The early years of life are the most foundational and important to the formation of our identity, character, and future health and stability. If you’ve experienced a healthy and functionally stable upbringing, you’ve received a gift that has become increasingly rare. But if your 18-year factor was marked by a significant [...]
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“If being selfish brings so much trouble to everybody, including oneself, why be that way? Because, as the filmmaker Woody Allen said in 1993, trying to explain his controversial affair with the young daughter of Mia Farrow, ‘The heart wants what it wants.”
“Because the hearts wants what it wants. That’s as far as we get. [...]
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Did you come from a toxic upbringing? Do you know someone who struggles with a difficult background? Was your 18 year factor significantly disrupted or characterized by a serious dysfunction? In the link below, I outline a detox plan for those who grew up in toxic homes or had toxic backgrounds? [...]
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I just returned from summer conference ministry. As I travel and teach about forgiveness and restoring broken relationships, people share many stories with me. Some have sinned in ways that make them feel beyond the reach of God’s forgiveness. Trapped in a prison of regret and guilt, they have lost their joy. Others have been [...]
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Should we expect more from our leaders?
Lately, I feel like I’ve been sitting through an unbearably long episode of a Jerry Springer show, pummeled with high-profile sex scandals from senators, governors and mayors. Their secrets become headline news and like the flow of a polluted river, their stories seem to have no end.
Most recently, South [...]
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by Steve Cornell
Does God know how bad things are on this planet? Does he care? In the early days of human existence, God observed and testified against the pervasive evil of the human heart and the way it affected life on the planet he gave to be our home. The first occasion is recorded in [...]
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Grudge-bearers have a worship deficit
By Steve Cornell
Have you ever thought of forgiveness as an act of worship? If you haven’t, what you’re about to read could radically change the way you think about forgiveness. Jesus joined forgiveness and worship when he said, “When you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, [...]
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–Challenges and Opportunities–
America is a pluralistic society rich in multi-ethnic and multi-cultural diversity. We (Christians) welcome this diversity and recognize that the gospel is meant for all nations and peoples on earth (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8; Heaven itself will be inhabited by people “from every tribe and language and people and nation” Revelation 5:9). [...]
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A new wave of radical atheism is pounding the streets. The march is led by angry militant atheists like Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens and their disciples. But look carefully because their books are full of self-contradictory arguments. The leading spokespersons for this new atheism in a strange way indirectly validate belief with the intensity [...]
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