NMC Audio Podcast
Summary: Here you will find audio podcasts of the weekly sermons from the Nappanee Missionary Church in Nappanee, IN.
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Podcasts:
It's Time For Change
Review/Preview
Welcome to the Dysfunctional Family!
Nothing is Impossible with God!
Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover
Faith, Love & Hope for the Holidays
Gracia Burnham
Red Hot In An Ice Cold World
God's Work of Healing
Trust is a core component to health in any relationship. When trust is high everything works better. When trust is absent even the best systems will fail. Trust can’t be legislated or mandated. It is earned. Just as trust is essential in all human interactions, Joseph discovered that trust is absolutely essential for experiencing God’s best for us. So the real question is not, “can God be trusted?” The real question is, “can God trust me?” Joseph’s impact was maximized because God could trust him. Can the same be said about you?
A well-ordered heart learns how to navigate temptation. Disorder happens when we fall into repeating the dangerous cycle of temptation, falling and repentance. Breaking that cycle is essential to our spiritual development. Everyone loves a success story. That’s exactly what Joseph gives us in navigating the troubled waters of temptation. His story can become our story.
The road to a well-ordered heart is filled with disordered times. We often mistakenly think following God will eliminate pain and hardship, not understanding God’s plan for ordering our heart generally includes pain and hardship. Joseph teaches us the way up often has times of going down. While our feelings may say, “the world is falling apart,” God is using hard times to refine and order our hearts.
In a day when it’s popular to teach about self-love, assertiveness and the need for personal pride, dying to pride might seem unreasonable and out of date. Yet few things are clearer in Scripture than the fact that God hates a proud heart. He finds it absolutely detestable. The path to a well-ordered heart takes us to the cross where we must die to pride.
It happened when it went from Jesus to His disciples. Will it happen from the early church to the modern church? What is it we’re talking about? It’s the DNA transfer of praying! Jesus began His ministry with prayer. The early church captured the power of prayer. The question now is simple: will the DNA of Jesus and the DNA of the early church become our DNA, or will we default to trusting in ourselves and our own abilities? Prayer is the X factor that unleashes the full force of God’s power.
So if people were full of grace, what would they look like? Truly they could be called generous - generous with love, with time, with understanding, with forgiveness and with resources. They would be marked by open hands rather than clenched fists. Often the body of Christ is not seen for its generosity but instead as angry, mean-spirited, tightfisted misers. God’s children need to look like their Father: generous!
