Living Hope Community Church - Message Archive

March 30, 2008
'Envy - Envy That Kills and Kindness That Builds' - Pastor Verlan Van Ee

Have you ever been Green with envy, wanting to do and experience and enjoy everything that everyone else is? We can have victory over our envious desires through the power of the blood of Christ. God's great act ov kindness can empower us to express kindness as the holy alternative to envy.

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Scripture: Genesis 4:1-12, James 1:27

March 23, 2008
'Lust - Dying to Lust and Rising to Holiness' - Pastor Verlan Van Ee

Lust is an excessive love for that which God created to be good. It is not a sin of the flesh so much as a sin against it. Lust is always in pursuit and ends as empty-handed as it began. Let Holiness be what we long for.

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Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20, 1 Peter 1:13-16

March 21, 2008
'Gluttony - Crossing Out Gluttony to Gain the Glory of Contentment' - Pastor Verlan Van Ee

Our appetites, desires, longing for fulfillment are answered at the cross. All of our bodily urges and things that seek to master us need to be "Crossed" out, need to be brought under the control of Christ, our Lord and Savior.

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Scripture: Phillipians 3:12-4:1, 4:12-13

March 16, 2008
'Greed - Greedy Grouches and Generous Givers' - Pastor Verlan Van Ee

Yellow, the color of gold, reminds us of the desire for material wealth. Greed today does not seem to be shut away. Rather, our love of possessing is often flaunted in others faces. Lord, help us to make an honest assessment of our heart. may we make an honest re-commitment to generosity, the holy alternative to greed.

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Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:10-15, 2 Timothy 6:17-19

March 9, 2008
'Sloth - Slothful Spectators & Diligent Doers' - Pastor Verlan Van Ee

The color blue is the color of slothfulness. When we say, "I'm blue" it is often an excuse to do nothing. But God calls us to the alternative - diligence - a trait that should more and more consume the Christian.

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Scripture: Proverbs 26:13-16, Hebrews 6:9-12

March 2, 2008
'Anger - Getting Angry; Practicing Patience' - Pastor Wick Hubers

The color red is the color of anger. When we burn with anger we "see red." Anger as a deadly sin is a disorderly outburst of emotion connected with the unrestrained desire for revenge either in regard to the object on which it is vented, or in the degree in which it is expressed. The color red also reminds us of the blood of the Lamb that cleanses us from all our sins.

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Scripture: Numbers 22:21-35

February 24
'Pride - The Pitfall of Pride / The Hollow of Humility'

The color purple is the color of royalty. Our pride makes us want to be king of our own lives. Pride is the excessive belief in our own abilities, that interferes with our recognition of the grace of God. Pride is a sin of selfishness, self-centeredness, self-satisfaction, and self-exaltation.

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Scripture: Genesis 3:1-7, James 4:6-10

Living Hope Community Church - Message Archive

March 30, 2008 'Envy - Envy That Kills and Kindness That Builds' - Pastor Verlan Van Ee

March 23, 2008 'Lust - Dying to Lust and Rising to Holiness' - Pastor Verlan Van Ee

March 21, 2008 'Gluttony - Crossing Out Gluttony to Gain the Glory of Contentment' - Pastor Verlan Van Ee

March 16, 2008 'Greed - Greedy Grouches and Generous Givers' - Pastor Verlan Van Ee

March 9, 2008 'Sloth - Slothful Spectators & Diligent Doers' - Pastor Verlan Van Ee

March 2, 2008 'Anger - Getting Angry; Practicing Patience' - Pastor Wick Hubers

February 24 'Pride - The Pitfall of Pride / The Hollow of Humility'