
“How to Change”
How to Change, part one
I want us to talk about a question that I think should be pretty important to all of us, and that is, “How do I change?" And one reason I want us to think about what the Bible says about how people change is because a lot of people are confused about it…
How to Change, part two
You’ll never really change until you grieve over your sin. And you’ll never really grieve over your sin until you see yourself for who you are. And you’ll never really see yourself for who you are, until you’ve first looked upon God’s face…
How to change, part three
One big problem many people have when they come for counseling is that they don't know how big their problems really are. It’s not just that we have these little issues in our life…
How to change, part four
I don’t know how you feel when someone says they want to talk about holiness, but I can imagine there are many people who don't get excited about this subject, because they think of holiness as something that’s almost oppressive…
How to change, part five
How can I change? Over the past several posts we have been looking at a couple of very important principles that we need to embrace if we are going to actually change. First, we need to want to. And, what's more…
How to change, part six
Temptation wins when it gets you to stop trusting God and start thinking you need to take matters into your own hands. As Martin Luther once said,“That’s the sin underneath all our sins…
How to change, part seven
I want us to keep talking about holiness. We are in the middle of a series where we are looking at the Bible and asking, how do people change? Or. If you want a big theological word you could say we are talking about sanctification. And…
How to change, part eight
If all Christians struggle. And.If we are saved by what Jesus did. Then why even talk about pursuing holiness? If we are justified. Already. By Jesus. Why talk about being sanctified? Or…
How to change, part nine
When we are thinking about sin and holiness, and change, if we are talking with someone who is not a Christian, they are enslaved to sin, they are under the dominion of sin, they need the gospel…
How to change, part ten
As believers we are interested in changing. We are interested in growing. In fact, if we say we are Christians, and we are not concerned about overcoming sin and becoming more and more like Jesus, then something is going wrong…
How to change, part eleven
Before you can grow spiritually you need to identify and reject wrong ideas of spiritual growth and maturity.In Colossians 2:16-23, the apostle Paul helps us do that by highlighting three characteristics of the kind of teaching…
How to change, part twelve
If we are going to grow spiritually we have to reject wrong ideas about growing spiritually. Which, sounds tough, I know, but it's real. There are very wrong ideas about spirituality that will do us serious damage…
How to change, part thirteen
In Paul’s day, some people thought the body was bad. And physical things were bad. Which meant if you were going to free your soul to really worship God you had to punish your body and stay away from certain stuff…
How to change, part fourteen
I think we’ve all had times where we knew what to do but we didn’t really know how to do it. And. Sometimes that can be frustrating. Obviously. Knowing what to do, but not knowing how…
How to change, part fifteen
The way God has changed believers should change believers.After reminding us in Colossians 3:1 of the fact we have been raised with Christ, Paul goes on to show…