LifePoint Church Podcast Episodes - | Planting for a Good Harvest | Today's message was presented primarily to the boys & girls and students of LifePoint to teach how the choices they make today can have a significant effect on their future. But these principles of the "Law of the Harvest" apply to everyone, adults included. God wants to use your life to impact the lives of others in an eternally significant way. However, a spiritually fruitful life isn't the product of blind luck, but is the result of whether one chooses to follow or ignore the principles God has given us. | Get at Short URL | Download Planting for a Good Harvest | Play in Popup.
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| Dealing With Your Past | There is no doubt about it... families are in trouble. Half of all marriages end in divorce, even in Christian circles. What has gone wrong, and how can you make sure your marriage will not only go the distance, but will be joyful and God-honoring? Are successful marriages just "lucky" or do they know a secret others don't? Find out in this series called Hope for Families in Hectic Times. | Get at Short URL | Download Dealing With Your Past | Play in Popup.
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| Let's Remember and Let's Respond | When we celebrate communion together as a church family, it is a time to "remember" what Christ did for us on the cross. But it is not enough for us to spend our entire lives just remembering... we must also "respond" by living our lives in service to the One who gave His life for us. Today's message includes testimonies of what God can accomplish when two ordinary people choose to step out and respond. | Get at Short URL | Download Let's Remember and Let's Respond | Play in Popup.
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| A Courageous Soul | The final sermon in this series is a warning to let you know the reality of what you will face if you do step out and live a life of holy ambition. Whenever we step out to follow God, we can expect to face attacks from the enemy, just as Nehemiah did. We will be criticized and ridiculed, we will face discouragement and doubt, and we must determine beforehand that we are going to have a courageous soul or we will cave in under the opposition. Are you going to finish what God has called you to, despite the difficulties? | Get at Short URL | Download A Courageous Soul | Play in Popup.
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| A Personal Commitment | Everything in life is just talk until we make a personal commitment to actually DO it. So often, the difference between people God uses greatly and people He doesn't use comes down to which person is fully committed to Him. Is there an area of your life that you have been hesitant to commit the Lord? Why not give it to Him today? | Get at Short URL | Download A Personal Commitment | Play in Popup.
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| A Strategic Plan | Most people spend more time planning their vacation than they ever do planning to be used by God. But without a strategic plan, our best intentions will never become reality. So, what is your plan for your life? Your marriage? Your family? Your personal ministry? Do you have one? Plans clarify the vision and get us moving in the right direction. Planning shows faith in the vision God has given us... and God will move mightily through that kind of faith! | Get at Short URL | Download A Strategic Plan | Play in Popup.
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| A Radical Faith | While a "dislocated heart" and a "broken spirit" may be private matters, a "radical faith" is public. It means stepping out to obey God's will and putting it all on the line, regardless of the cost. Faith is the thing God longs to see in us most of all. Has God put a specific burden on your heart that may soon require a step of faith? If so, what is it? What would it look like for you to take a radical step of faith towards such a need? How will you respond? | Get at Short URL | Download A Radical Faith | Play in Popup.
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| A Broken Spirit | In a world where we are constantly bombarded with headlines of tragedy and trouble, it is easy for us to become desensitized to the needs around us. But in order for us to be the kind of people God can use to accomplish His agenda in the world, it is vital that we maintain a broken spirit, and remain sensitive to the pain of others. Has your heart become calloused, or do you have a broken spirit? | Get at Short URL | Download A Broken Spirit | Play in Popup.
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| A Dislocated Heart | How would it change the way you live your life if you knew for a fact that God desperately wanted to use YOU to make a difference in the world? God is, in fact, searching the earth for people through whom He can show Himself strong and make a difference. In this series we will discover the kind of person God is looking for, and what steps you can take to be that person. | Get at Short URL | Download A Dislocated Heart | Play in Popup.
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| Kids Are Important at LifePoint | Jesus always had a special place in His heart for children, and at LifePoint, we do to. Our children's ministries are among our top priorities because we know they will be the ones leading the way and taking the Gospel to future generations. Today's message looks at some of the foundational principles of why kids are so important to us at LifePoint, and unveils some of the great plans for our children's ministries in the days ahead. | Get at Short URL | Download Kids Are Important at LifePoint | Play in Popup.
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| The Mission of God | What does God want? The answer to that question should change our entire reason for living. What God wants is for every man, woman and child to have the repeated opportunity to see and hear the Gospel without having to come or go anywhere. That means the mission of God is for the Gospel to go everywhere you go each day, in order that others in your world can see Jesus in you and come to know Him. Are you living on mission for God? | Get at Short URL | Download The Mission of God | Play in Popup.
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| Committed to Maturity | No one can go to the gym and get in shape FOR you. If you want to get fit, you have to exercise yourself. The same is true when it comes to your spiritual growth. You will never become spiritually mature simply by listening to the pastor teach every Sunday. If you want to grow in Christ, you MUST pursue God yourself by regularly spending time reading His Word. The reward will be that you will hear God speak directly to you, and you will begin to grow spiritually mature. | Get at Short URL | Download Committed to Maturity | Play in Popup.
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| Committed to Worship | It's easy to show up at a church service on Sunday morning and worship... but how many people are merely going through the motions? God does not accept worship if our hearts are far from Him and if our lives are not fully committed to Him. Do you know what God is looking for in your life before your worship will be pleasing to Him? | Get at Short URL | Download Committed to Worship | Play in Popup.
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| Committed to Community | When humans are placed in solitary confinement for long periods of time, they often begin to lose their mind, because we were created for relationships. In our fast-paced world, "community" is almost a lost art. But if we are ever going to be a church on fire, we must be committed to community, as the early church was. Unless our lives are closely intertwined with the lives of other believers, we will never be all that God intends for us to be. | Get at Short URL | Download Committed to Community | Play in Popup.
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| Committed to the Mission | Churches everywhere are filled with people who have made a commitment to Jesus... but many of those people have never made a commitment to the "mission" of Jesus. They took a step towards the cross to be saved, but they have never taken the next step to go beyond the cross and live out their lives for the cause of Christ. Today's messages challenges us to not just make a commitment to Jesus, but to make a commitment to the mission of Jesus as well. | Get at Short URL | Download Committed to the Mission | Play in Popup.
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| Amazing Grace | As Stephen was being brutally murdered, a man named Saul was watching and giving his approval. It seems unthinkable that a cold hearted man like Saul would go on to become the greatest voice of the church and write half the New Testament. Yet the fact that someone like that can be completely transformed is a testimony of God's amazing grace! No matter what road a person is on, God's grace can still turn them around. | Get at Short URL | Download Amazing Grace | Play in Popup.
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| The Strange Plans of God | As the first church began to explode with growth and unlimited possibility, one of its brightest and best young leaders--a man named Stephen--was brutally murdered for his faith. Who would have thought that something so awful and unfair would have ever been part of God's plans for the church? And yet God used this event to scatter the church and spread the Gospel to other places. Often in life God's plan seem so strange, even unkind, yet we must trust His plans and hold to the promise that God knows what He is doing. | Get at Short URL | Download The Strange Plans of God | Play in Popup.
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