http://www.leroychapel.org Leroy Community Chapel Podcasts en Leroy Community Chapel Podcasts Leroy Community Chapel no Leroy Community Chapel leroychapel@leroychapel.org ℗ & © 2010 Leroy Community Chapel 720 If the “put off” of the Christian life is rooting out the idols of your heart, then the “put on” of the Christian life is rejoicing in the life of faith. You see the central strategy of Satan and his kingdom is to get you and I to find our happiness in something or someone other than God, to get us to love the world and the things of the world. And many Christians think God’s central strategy is to get you and I away from anything and anyone who might bring us happiness. But this is simply not the truth. God’s heart is to free us from the silly pleasures of the world so that we might enjoy the sweetest gifts heaven has to offer. This life of faith, motivated by joy, is all about love … to God and to others. And we are right back where we started “love God with all your heart … and your neighbor as yourself.” This is where joy, peace, happiness, and hope are found. This is walking with God, and people who live like this change the world! http://www.sermoncloud.com/Leroy-Chapel/how-to-walk-with-god-pt-2 http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1930/how-to-walk-with-god-pt-2.mp3 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:58:50 GMT If the “put off” of the Christian life is rooting out the idols of your heart, then the “put on” of the Christian life is rejoicing in the life of faith. You see the central strategy of Satan and his kingdom is to get you and I to find our ... The Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is all we need! The work of the cross is done; today is the day of salvation. It is finished … and yet we never are. When at once we are adopted into the heavenly family of God, lavished the riches of heaven, and rescued from our foolishness, we learn to walk. Walk with God. Walk by faith. Walk according to the Word. Walk in step with the Spirit. Walk in obedience. Walk with rejoicing. Walk with endurance. But oh how our feet can get tired, our heart grow cold, and our mouths utter pious platitudes that feel as fake as plastic and as lifeless as a rock. But that is not what you and I were made for. We were made for so much more. I invite you to walk the path of spiritual refreshment with me these next two weeks and re-discover (or perhaps discover for the first time) the walk with God you’ve always wanted and yet could never fully grasp. http://www.sermoncloud.com/Leroy-Chapel/the-path-to-spiritual-refreshment-how-to-walk-with-god-pt-1 http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1930/the-path-to-spiritual-refreshment-how-to-walk-with-god-pt-1.mp3 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:31:58 GMT Mark Spansel The Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is all we need! The work of the cross is done; today is the day of salvation. It is finished … and yet we never are. When at once we are adopted into the heavenly family of God, lavished the riches of heaven, ... Maybe those words bring up a picture in your mind of some celebrity sporting a milk mustache, or maybe just the simple letters on a starkly contrasting background asking the question. Either way, since 1993, the “Got Milk?” advertising campaign has fixed those images in our minds, and has changed the image of milk to an entire culture. In our text today, Jesus’ words to the Jews on “death” and “life” would have certainly challenged their image of God, and been in stark contrast to their man-made system of works. Jesus’ words are no less challenging to many in this day and age, and are no less applicable. Life is found in Him! “…an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.” (v.25) Have you heard? Got Life? http://www.sermoncloud.com/Leroy-Chapel/john-5-25-29-got-life http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1930/john-5-25-29-got-life.mp3 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:47:45 GMT Chad Vavpetic Miracles and Messages: A Study of the Book of John http://www.sermoncloud.com/Leroy-Chapel/john-5-1-15-come-to-graceland http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1930/john-5-1-15-come-to-graceland.mp3 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:16:43 GMT Lad Chapman Miracles and Messages: A Study of the Book of John Oh how we like to keep God on our leash and make him perform at our calling. But thankfully, He is uncontainable and beyond our capability to control. He operates freely with one thing in mind for us – to bring our belief to maturity! Our text, this second sign, the healing of child Jesus never met, walks us through a progression of faith so that we might drop our leash and unreservedly believe in the One who gives life and gives it abundantly. http://www.sermoncloud.com/Leroy-Chapel/john-4-4654-god-on-a-leash http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1930/john-446-54-god-on-a-leash.mp3 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:42:15 GMT Mark Spansel Miracles and Messages: A Study of the Book of John Its always fun to see God at work in peoples lives. Dont forget that God has never left the business of transforming the hearts and lives of broken people. Guess what? He even works in situations that seem unlikely and unrealistic. Such is the case with our text this morning. If you had told the disciples that a shortcut through Samaria would result in a city wide revival, they would surely have laughed at such an idea. But Jesus first cross-cultural mission resulted in one of the most unlikely revivals in the Bible, and teaches us to never underestimate the power of a changed life in making a big difference in the world! 1. The Word of an Outcast 4:39 2. The Visit of a Foreigner 4:40 3. The Confession of a Village 4:41-42 4. The Superficiality of His Own 4:43-45 http://www.sermoncloud.com/Leroy-Chapel/john-4-39-45-an-unlikely-revival http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1930/john-4-39-45-an-unlikely-revival.mp3 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:16:49 GMT Mark Spansel Miracles and Messages: A Study of the Book of John After Jesus has lovingly pursued the woman at the level of her her heart, she begins to show “signs of life!” You know signs of life, what its like in the Springtime; the grass starts to get green, buds come out on the trees, it smells new and fresh. It doesnt matter that theres a pile of nasty leaves over the bulbs. You pull that mess back and there it is, bright green life! Nobody forces it to happen. Signs of life just pop out of living things. People are the same way, signs of spiritual life just pop out of spiritually alive people. When they meet Jesus, they forget about the mess of their life and begin to think and talk about where true life is found…Jesus. And in general alive people see life the way Jesus does. Are your days filled with “signs of life?” http://www.sermoncloud.com/Leroy-Chapel/john-4-27-38-signs-of-life http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1930/john-4-27-38-signs-of-life.mp3 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:30:21 GMT Jeff Pierce Miracles and Messages: A Study of the Book of John The conversation continues … and gets personal. This Samaritan woman that Jesus met at Jacob’s well was spiritually dehydrated. She had lived for years with a thirst that marriage couldn’t fill. And now her life, littered with broken relationships, had intersected with one who offered her living water that would quench her thirst for all eternity. But it might hurt a little to drink of that water, because this thirst is quenched in the heart not the stomach. You see, sin must be dealt with for living water to flood in with joy. But when it does it creates worship, anchored in the truth of the cross, and unbound by locations. Jesus’ living water satisfies the soul like nothing on earth ever can. Got some? Quenching Spiritual Thirst Requires Dealing With Sin 4:16-19 The Sneaky Dismissal/The Thoughtful Redirect Quenching Spiritual Thirst Is Always About Worship 4:20-26 The Issue of Location/The Issue of The Gospel/The Issue of Embracing Answers Why Believe that Jesus is the Son of God? Because He is the One who floods the brokenness of your soul with the living water that satisfies forever. http://www.sermoncloud.com/Leroy-Chapel/john-416-26-got-living-water-pt-2 http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1930/john-416-26-got-living-water-pt-2.mp3 Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:26:11 GMT Mark Spansel Miracles and Messages: A Study of the Book of John Spiritual thirst is as natural as physical thirst. Everyone is thirsty for something to satisfy the deepest longings of their soul. And as water quenches their physical thirst, only Jesus quenches their spiritual thirst. But most people don’t know they are thirsty for something more. They drink from the polluted streams of the world, having built up layers of protection, keeping them from experiencing the living water of spiritual joy. Such is the story of the Samaritan woman whose life was a mess until she got living water. http://www.sermoncloud.com/Leroy-Chapel/john-41-15-got-living-water-pt-1 http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1930/john-4-1-25-got-living-water-pt-1.mp3 Sun, 30 May 2010 17:00:12 GMT Mark Spansel Miracles and Messages: A Study of the Book of John Does John the Baptist just have low self-esteem because he wants to decrease? Is he having a pity-party for himself because his ministry is going backwards in number of followers? No. He gladly (and obediently) steps aside because the greater one, come from heaven, has arrived. Jesus is above all earthly messages and messengers, supreme and superior to all else in creation. John the Baptist models it, John the writer teaches it … will you and I live it? http://www.sermoncloud.com/Leroy-Chapel/john-3-31-36-what-makes-jesus-so-great http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1930/what-makes-jesus-so-great.mp3 Sun, 23 May 2010 16:21:03 GMT Miracles and Messages: A Study of the Book of John