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Weekly sermon audio from Refuge Church in St. Charles MO
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Sunday Sep 08, 2013
Sunday Sep 01, 2013
Sunday Sep 01, 2013
Welcome to the 3rd sermon in our series on how we do daily life. (3 of 3)
Everybody these days wants to change the world. If you go to Amazon books and type the phrase “change the world,” there are no less than 14,500 results and nearly half of them are related to spiritually and religion. We see a world full of issues and think that this is our call, that we are supposed to change the world. In the book Culture Making, Andy Crouch writes, “Indeed I sometimes wonder if breathless rhetoric about changing the world is actually more about changing the subject from our own fitfully suppressed awareness that we didn’t ask to be brought into the world, and have only vaguely succeeded in figuring it out, and will end our days in radical dependence on something or someone other than ourselves. If our excitement about changing the world leads us into the grand illusion that we stand somehow outside the world knowing what’s best for it, tools and good will and gusto at the ready. We have not yet come to terms with the reality that world has changed us far more than we will ever change it.” As followers of Jesus we are not called to change the world; we are called to be changed. We are not called to do radically different things, but to do the things that we do radically differently.
Sunday Aug 25, 2013
Sunday Aug 25, 2013
Welcome to the 2nd sermon in our series on how we do daily life. (2 of 3)
Everybody these days wants to change the world. If you go to Amazon books and type the phrase “change the world,” there are no less than 14,500 results and nearly half of them are related to spiritually and religion. We see a world full of issues and think that this is our call, that we are supposed to change the world. In the book Culture Making, Andy Crouch writes, “Indeed I sometimes wonder if breathless rhetoric about changing the world is actually more about changing the subject from our own fitfully suppressed awareness that we didn’t ask to be brought into the world, and have only vaguely succeeded in figuring it out, and will end our days in radical dependence on something or someone other than ourselves. If our excitement about changing the world leads us into the grand illusion that we stand somehow outside the world knowing what’s best for it, tools and good will and gusto at the ready. We have not yet come to terms with the reality that world has changed us far more than we will ever change it.” As followers of Jesus we are not called to change the world; we are called to be changed. We are not called to do radically different things, but to do the things that we do radically differently.
Sunday Aug 18, 2013
Sunday Aug 18, 2013
Welcome to the 1st sermon in our series on how we do daily life. (1 of 3)
Everybody these days wants to change the world. If you go to Amazon books and type the phrase “change the world,” there are no less than 14,500 results and nearly half of them are related to spiritually and religion. We see a world full of issues and think that this is our call, that we are supposed to change the world. In the book Culture Making, Andy Crouch writes, “Indeed I sometimes wonder if breathless rhetoric about changing the world is actually more about changing the subject from our own fitfully suppressed awareness that we didn’t ask to be brought into the world, and have only vaguely succeeded in figuring it out, and will end our days in radical dependence on something or someone other than ourselves. If our excitement about changing the world leads us into the grand illusion that we stand somehow outside the world knowing what’s best for it, tools and good will and gusto at the ready. We have not yet come to terms with the reality that world has changed us far more than we will ever change it.” As followers of Jesus we are not called to change the world; we are called to be changed. We are not called to do radically different things, but to do the things that we do radically differently.
Sunday Aug 11, 2013
Sunday Aug 11, 2013
Welcome to the 4th sermon in our series on how God is working in our city. (4 of 4)
God intends The Church to be a contrast society. It is to show a watching world how to do community, to be the place where the divisions that are present in the culture are absent. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote “There was a time when the church was very powerful – in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.” Join us as some guest speakers share how God is still working powerfully in people and guiding them to change our community.
Sunday Aug 04, 2013
Sunday Aug 04, 2013
Welcome to the 3rd sermon in our series on how God is working in our city. (3 of 4)
God intends The Church to be a contrast society. It is to show a watching world how to do community, to be the place where the divisions that are present in the culture are absent. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote “There was a time when the church was very powerful – in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.” Join us as some guest speakers share how God is still working powerfully in people and guiding them to change our community.
Sunday Jul 28, 2013
Sunday Jul 28, 2013
Welcome to the 2nd sermon in our series on how God is working in our city. (2 of 4)
God intends The Church to be a contrast society. It is to show a watching world how to do community, to be the place where the divisions that are present in the culture are absent. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote “There was a time when the church was very powerful – in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.” Join us as some guest speakers share how God is still working powerfully in people and guiding them to change our community.
Sunday Jul 21, 2013
Sunday Jul 21, 2013
Welcome to the 1st sermon in our series on how God is working in our city. (1 of 4)
God intends The Church to be a contrast society. It is to show a watching world how to do community, to be the place where the divisions that are present in the culture are absent. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote “There was a time when the church was very powerful – in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.” Join us as some guest speakers share how God is still working powerfully in people and guiding them to change our community.
Sunday Jul 14, 2013
Sunday Jul 14, 2013
Welcome to the 2nd sermon in our series on how to tell the story of the gospel. (2 of 2)
Everything has a story. The story that we believe that we are a part of is what shapes the way we see the world. It shapes how we see other people, how we see suffering, how we see joy and sorrow. William Kilpatrick writes, “The same impulse that makes us want our books to have a plot makes us want our lives to have a plot. We need to feel that we are getting somewhere, that we’re making progress. There’s something in us that’s not satisfied with the merely psychological explanation of our lives. It doesn’t do justice to our conviction that we are on some kind of journey or quest. There must be some deeper meaning to our lives than whether we feel good about ourselves.” How do we see our own story? How did we get here? What went wrong? What is our hope? And how do we retell our story to others?
Sunday Jul 07, 2013
Sunday Jul 07, 2013
Welcome to the 1st sermon in our series on how to tell the story of the gospel. (1 of 2)
Everything has a story. The story that we believe that we are a part of is what shapes the way we see the world. It shapes how we see other people, how we see suffering, how we see joy and sorrow. William Kilpatrick writes, “The same impulse that makes us want our books to have a plot makes us want our lives to have a plot. We need to feel that we are getting somewhere, that we’re making progress. There’s something in us that’s not satisfied with the merely psychological explanation of our lives. It doesn’t do justice to our conviction that we are on some kind of journey or quest. There must be some deeper meaning to our lives than whether we feel good about ourselves.” How do we see our own story? How did we get here? What went wrong? What is our hope? And how do we retell our story to others?