Messages on Tripping Hazards
Tripping Hazards: Pride
This week, we’re continuing our message series entitled “Tripping Hazards”. In this series, we’re learning about common tripping hazards that exist in life and how to put our past in our past and move forward unhindered by it. So far, we’ve covered the tripping hazards of offense and regret. This week, we’re learning about how to avoid the tripping hazard of pride. We’ve all heard the scriptures being quoted which make it crystal clear that pride is literally a tripping hazard…
Tripping Hazards: Regret
This week, we’re continuing our message series entitled “Tripping Hazards”. In this series, we’re learning about common tripping hazards that exist in life which keep us from running the race that Christ has set before us with full speed and endurance. We’re going to learn how to put our past in our past and move forward unhindered by it. So far, we’ve covered a huge tripping hazard: offense. This week, we’re learning about how to avoid the tripping hazard of regret.…
Tripping Hazards: The Offended
Last week, we learned our vision for this year: Come on in! Breaking barriers, building bridges. With this vision in mind, it now makes sense why God would decide to teach and train us on how to properly deal with offense. This morning, we’re continuing our “Tripping Hazards” series. So far, we learned about what offense is – from the original Greek word skandalon. This word literally defined is: the part of a trap to which the bait is attached, hence,…
Tripping Hazards: The Offender
Last week, we learned about the tripping hazard of offense. We learned that although Jesus said that it is impossible to live life without being offended, He also said that offense is one thing that is sure to put us in danger of the fires of hell. He literally spoke of it this severely. We learned that offense comes from the Greek work skandalon, which literally translated is part of a trap to which the bait is attached, hence, the…
Tripping Hazards: Offense
Here we are at the very beginning of a brand new year! This is normally the time that I would encourage us all to celebrate our successes in 2013, to forget the failures of the past, and press on into the new thing that the Lord is doing in 2014. However, I felt the Lord leading us to launch the new year by starting off a new message series. In this series, we’re going to learn about common tripping hazards…