Are You Searching For A Church That Truly BELIEVES In Miracles?
Shepherd's Grove • Mar 20, 2025 • 16 min
Take this message with you through a journey of Scripture, reflection, and prayer.
Summary
Themes
Key Points
- 1.Feeling distant from God is fundamentally a faith issue rooted in unbelief rather than circumstance.
- 2.Faith grows rapidly when we read the Bible with simple, trustful faith rather than overly intellectual skepticism.
- 3.Staying connected to a faith-filled local church is essential because the church is the literal body of Christ on Earth.
- 4.Spiritual health is optimized through a two-fold engagement: Sunday corporate worship gatherings and midweek small group connections.
- 5.The faith level of a church community shapes what God can accomplish within that environment.
- 6.Material abundance often brings an increase in worldly anxieties that can choke out spiritual fruitfulness.
- 7.Worry functions as low-grade fear that directly opposes active faith in God's provision.
- 8.Spiritual victory requires actively taking every anxious thought captive and submitting it to Christ.
- 9.Replacing continuous worry with day-and-night meditation on Scripture restores continuous vitality like a tree planted by streams of water.
Sermon Moments
“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God... When we read the Bible, just read it as true and you just see your faith grow like crazy.”
“If you're feeling distant from God, you need to be in a church that is a friend of the Holy Spirit... flowing with rivers of living water and full of faith.”
“The real one-two punch with church is Sunday gathering, midweek, small group... Sunday morning you get worship and celebration, and midweek you meet with people who pray for you.”
“The church is the body of Christ. When Saul gets knocked off his horse, Jesus says, 'Why do you persecute me?' He hasn't separated himself from His body.”
“The richer the country, the more worried the country... It's not the riches, it's the worries that come from riches that choke out spiritual life.”
“At the core of discipleship is to take every thought captive... When a worrisome thought comes, take it, slap it down, and fix your eyes on things above.”
“Worry is one side of the coin. The other is meditate on the word day and night, becoming like a tree planted by streams of living water.”
This Week
Remember This
Overcome spiritual distance and worry by grounding yourself in a faith-filled church community and actively taking anxious thoughts captive through daily meditation on God's Word.
A Challenge for You
Choose today to take every thought captive, reject worry, and meditate on God's Word day and night so that your life will be full of faith, vision, and peace.These are personal sermon notes shared to help you remember the message — not a replacement for Scripture, your church, or your pastors.
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