10 Tweets

Here's the weekend sermon in 10 tweets: Galatians 5:16-26, "Walk, Fight, Grow" 1// The way to do what God wants you to do is to become who God wants you to be.

2// The Christian life is a walk with God. It’s about a relationship.

3// You alone can choose to walk with God, but you will not walk with God alone.

4// Your fight will determine your fruit.

5// The orange tree: The new detergent didn’t grow the fruit. It removed what was hindering growth.

6// When you become a Christian, you have a new standard—to reflect the image of God.

7// There are 3 different voices shouting at us to do the wrong thing—the world, the flesh & the devil.

8// It’s a fight. Don’t be surprised. Don’t give up. If you’re struggling it’s a sign of life.

9// John Owen: You must always be at it while you live; do no take a day off from this work; always be killing sin or it will be killing you.

10// Transformation trumps temperament. Keller: You are really only as spiritually mature as your weakest trait.

10 Tweets

Here's last weekend's sermon in 10 tweets, "Freedom," Galatians 5:1-15:

1// Freedom is fragile.

2// Freedom can be lost in 2 ways that seem to be polar opposites but end up in the same place—they end in bondage.

3// When you reflect on the 2 ways that lead to bondage, you see that most of us are one way or another choosing bondage over freedom.

4// Christ + Anything = Nothing

5// Christ + Nothing = Everything

6// God’s grace isn’t nullified if you struggle with sin but only if you don’t receive it and depend on grace alone.

7// LICENSE = grace gives us a license to sin. I do what I want because I can go to confession OR because I accepted Jesus as my Savior.

8// Jesus jumps into the muck we’ve created, saves us from it and dies in our place. There’s nothing like that anywhere outside of Christianity.

9// Martin Luther: “We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.”

10// Nouwen: "I am convinced that I truly be able to love the world when I fully believe that I am love far beyond its boundaries."