Sunday Sermon Blog/Podcast

There have been moments in my life when I’ve seriously wondered whether prayer really works…  Like when God allowed my grandfather to die of lung cancer despite my prayers… When gathered in a room of a thousand people praying - can God really listen to and answer all those prayers at the same time?  And times when I attempted big things for God, prayed diligently, and those efforts flopped.  Why?  Where was God?  Odds are you’ve probably wondered about the same things.

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Some things in life you are rock-solid certain about.  There are other things in life which you are 100% sure are NOT true.  Most things in life, however, lie somewhere in between where there is some doubt - a politician’s promise, a weatherman’s forecast, and perhaps even God.

“I know this is politically incorrect for a pastor to say, but I’ve doubted God at times in my life.”
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“There are some Christians who drive me crazy.  There are some Christians who make it very difficult for me to love my neighbors as myself.”
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We’ve all experienced what it’s like to be driving somewhere and come face-to-face with a “Dead End” sign.  It’s frustrating and disappointing.  What’s even more frustrating, though, is if you thought you had good directions.  The same is true in other areas of life…

Have you ever followed what you thought were good directions for developing a relationship only to have that relationship hit a dead end?  Perhaps you had what you thought were good directions for managing your money, you followed them, and they left you at a financial dead end?  Or maybe for you ended up at a career, emotional, or spiritual dead end.

2000 years ago Jesus’s followers were confronted with a seemingly insurmountable dead end when Jesus’s body was placed in a tomb.  The same power that raised Jesus from the dead can overcome your dead end as well.
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