NC3 Sermons

Get Healthy! Financial Health

Create - Psalm 51:10

A dysfunctional relationship with money . . .

How do I create financial health?

The freedom of good stewardship.

Knowledge + A Plan + Action = Change

Breaking Point - Luke 19:10

What is your relationship with money?

How does money impact your soul?

Guilt & Shame

Having Jesus over for dinner?

A second reconciliation - Acts 16:29-31

3 Key Biblical Beliefs about $$$

1. All I have comes from God - Deuteronomy 8:18
2. I live joyfully within God's current provision - Philippians 4:12
• Debt comes from wanting more than God's current provision for your life and arranging other ways to get it.  

I honor God by giving - Proverbs 3:9-10

90/10 Living - Malachi 3:10
Am I missing the blessing of seeing God work?
Developing a "C" story

Jim -> A (100) >>>>> B
Mike -> A (90) >>>>> B (10) >>>>> C
The real living happens between B and C!

Create Action Steps

• Have Jesus over for dinner
• Have a second reconciliation
• Acknowledge that everything I have comes from God
• Decide to live joyfully within God's provision
• Obey God regarding giving
• Decide to live 90/10; develop a 'C' story
• Take the class Financial Peace
• Take the class the Legacy Journey

Get Healthy! Spiritual Health

Seven Areas of Health . . . Spiritual / Financial / Physical / Relational / Mental / Emotional / Vocational

2 Corinthians 12:8-9, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Luke 2:52

Spiritual Health - a Healthy Heart - Proverbs 4:23, John 1:4, John 14:6, John 10:10, John 17:3

Desire . . .Motivation - Psalm 42:1-2, Isaiah 44:14-18, Matthew 5:6, Matthew 6:33

Relationship . . . Communication

Pray - Psalm 42:2, 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18, 1 Peter 5:6-7
Word - John 17:17, John 8:31 - 32

Change

Change . . . Don't let it happen without you - Ephesians 5:14-15

Growth - 1 Peter 2:2-3, 2 Peter 3:318, Ephesians 4:15

Mysterious Partnership - Galatians 2:20, 1 Corinthians 15:10, John 15:4-5, John 5:19, 30, Psalm 46:10

Action! - 1 Peter 1:13

Create

God creates . . .

• Genesis 1:1 = heavens & earth
• Genesis 1:17 = mankind
• Colossians 1:17 = everything
• Ephesians 2:10 = good works
• Ephesians 3:9-11 = the church 

You create . . .

Paradox - Philippians 2:13 <> Galatians 6:7

What will you create in 2015?

Philippians 3:13 - What's the one thing you need to do?  What do I need to forget that is behind me? 

The Problem of Excuses

Start -> Begin!

Who do you think you are?  - 2 Corinthians 5:17

In Christ!

The new creation

The old is gone