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Shipwrecked - Part 3

9/27/2020

A casual reading of the Psalms will reveal that David and Asaph were not amateurs when it came to intimacy with God. They knew their stuff when it came to fellowship with God! And yet....they also knew what it was like to be in the depths of despair and fear. They too experienced seasons when distress described their souls more than delight. We are in good company when the "bottom falls out" and God seems a million miles away. Is there any meaning to our soul's mess? As we conclude our series about shipwrecks of the soul today, we read how Paul's distresses at sea opened the door for the gospel to advance among an unsaved community. Good things always await us on the other side of the soul's shipwreck.

Acts 27 and 28

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Shipwrecked - Part 2

9/20/2020

How many times have you walked through your garage or basement and thought, I don’t really need this; why do I keep hanging onto it? Sometimes our stuff can get in the way of more important things. When Deanna’s mother died several months ago, we emptied her parents' storage unit full of stuff they had accumulated through the years. After unloading it into our garage, I thought for sure we could assimilate all of it within a couple of weeks. A couple of weeks turned into a couple of months and I now realize that our cars may have to endure a Utah winter outside their normal habitat. That stuff is going to be there a while! It’s easy to accumulate things over time that eventually get in the way of what is more necessary. The same can be true in the Christian life. Over time, we collect things in our souls that are really not helpful for our journey on earth. Just as a garage or basement might become crowded with unneeded stuff, so can our souls. In today's message, we consider the importance of jettisoning unneeded cargo during the trials of life.

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Shipwrecked

9/13/2020

Week after week as a kid, my brother and I tuned in to watch what would become one of television’s most popular series portraying the hilarious escapades of 7 people stranded on a South Pacific Island after a terrible storm knocked their boat off course. Each episode began with these words…

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip-that started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship. The jingle would end with….The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle with Gilligan, the skipper too, a millionaire, and his wife. A movie star, the Professor and Mary Ann, here on Gilligan’s Isle.

As much as we enjoyed laughing at the silly plots of Gilligan's Island, there really isn’t anything funny about life-threatening storms on the ocean or being shipwrecked. It goes without saying that storms and shipwrecks are fun to watch… as long as they never happen to us! There is more than one kind of shipwreck however and the other kind is one I believe all of us will face at least once in our life, if not more. It's the shipwreck of our soul. Triggered by at least one traumatic event, we find our souls stuck and isolated, unable to move forward or backward in life. With that in mind, I want to take a few Sundays to talk about shipwrecks from the 27th chapter of Acts.

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A Broken World Needs a Perfect Savior

9/6/2020

In this guest message by Bobby Wood - Teaching Pastor at Redemption Church - we see how Daniel prayed for Israel's restoration - yet that restoration did not come immediately. No matter the trials you face and no matter how broken the world is, are you trusting Jesus?

Daniel 9

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