James MacDonald: Walk in the Word Audio

The final choice in our 10 Choices study is a decision that seals our future and keeps us going forward into all the blessing that these incredible choices can bring. It's the choice to stand. I'm not going back; I'm not caving in; and I'm not going to regress or retreat or regret the choices I've made. I'm going to stand. James MacDonald challenges you to examine the increasing pattern of your life. Are you becoming more loyal to and standing for Jesus Christ?

Serving Christ in some tangible way is a choice that will change your life forever. Nothing is the same after you commit to a lifetime of serving Him. Lest you be thinking, Sure, if somebody called me with a need, I'd think about it. Why don't you find your job? It will bless you and serve the body of Christ. James MacDonald encourages you to begin this week by getting done something that needs to be done. Make the choice to serve.

The twelfth sermon in "Authentic Oneness", from John 17:1-26. Part of the Authentic Jesus series, a study in the Gospel of John.

Serving Christ in some tangible way is a choice that will change your life forever. Nothing is the same after you commit to a lifetime of serving Him. Lest you be thinking, Sure, if somebody called me with a need, I'd think about it. Why don't you find your job? It will bless you and serve the body of Christ. James MacDonald encourages you to begin this week by getting done something that needs to be done. Make the choice to serve.

The number one criticism leveled against people of faith is that we are hypocritical; that we knowingly nourish a substantive separation between the life we project and the life we practice. God hates hypocrisy. He detests the gap in our lives between what we know to be true and how we're living it. Today we're going after authenticity, a quality so elusive you don't get there by accident-you have to choose it. James MacDonald urges us to close the gap between which we appear to be and who we are. It's out with phoniness and in with more genuine, heartfelt realness.

The number one criticism leveled against people of faith is that we are hypocritical; that we knowingly nourish a substantive separation between the life we project and the life we practice. God hates hypocrisy. He detests the gap in our lives between what we know to be true and how we're living it. Today we're going after authenticity, a quality so elusive you don't get there by accident-you have to choose it. James MacDonald urges us to close the gap between which we appear to be and who we are. It's out with phoniness and in with more genuine, heartfelt realness.

Choices are most important in the places where the difference between getting them right or wrong is most apparent. Our greatest joys and deepest sorrows involve our families. If you get the family thing right, you can be happy no matter what else is going wrong. But if your family is struggling, or sideways, or stumbling, it's hard to feel like anything is good until that central thing is right. James MacDonald leads us into God's Word and moves us decisively toward this truly life-changing choice: the choice to love family first.

Choices are most important in the places where the difference between getting them right or wrong is most apparent. Our greatest joys and deepest sorrows involve our families. If you get the family thing right, you can be happy no matter what else is going wrong. But if your family is struggling, or sideways, or stumbling, it's hard to feel like anything is good until that central thing is right. James MacDonald leads us into God's Word and moves us decisively toward this truly life-changing choice: the choice to love family first.

The third sermon in the three part series, How to Have Peace of Mind, from Philippians 4:5-8. Preached at Harvest Bible Chapel.

All of life gets sideways when you're on the anxiety program. When you constantly keep a tally in your mind of all the unknowns of the future and repeatedly review and extrapolate from your list, the uncertainties become so large that they can crush you. James MacDonald reminds us that nothing ever has nothing to do with faith. Every issue in life comes down to, Will I trust God? Do I believe He has my best interest at heart? Believe today that Jesus is ordering the circumstances of your life so that you will come to the place where you will trust Him.

All of life gets sideways when you're on the anxiety program. When you constantly keep a tally in your mind of all the unknowns of the future and repeatedly review and extrapolate from your list, the uncertainties become so large that they can crush you. James MacDonald reminds us that nothing ever has nothing to do with faith. Every issue in life comes down to, Will I trust God? Do I believe He has my best interest at heart? Believe today that Jesus is ordering the circumstances of your life so that you will come to the place where you will trust Him.

God didn't make you with the capacity to carry all the negative residue from your past. He doesn't expect you to store it or ignore it. We call it emotional baggage, but parts of our past are really more like toxic trash or radioactive waste. Forgiveness is what God gives to free us and others from the weight of relational failure. If we want the kind of life that God promises us, forgiveness is God's solution. James MacDonald tells us today how to become experts at forgiveness.

God didn't make you with the capacity to carry all the negative residue from your past. He doesn't expect you to store it or ignore it. We call it emotional baggage, but parts of our past are really more like toxic trash or radioactive waste. Forgiveness is what God gives to free us and others from the weight of relational failure. If we want the kind of life that God promises us, forgiveness is God's solution. James MacDonald tells us today how to become experts at forgiveness.

God didn't make you with the capacity to carry all the negative residue from your past. He doesn't expect you to store it or ignore it. We call it emotional baggage, but parts of our past are really more like toxic trash or radioactive waste. Forgiveness is what God gives to free us and others from the weight of relational failure. If we want the kind of life that God promises us, forgiveness is God's solution. James MacDonald tells us today how to become experts at forgiveness.

The second sermon in the three part series, How to Have Peace of Mind, from Philippians 4:5-8. Preached at Harvest Bible Chapel.