LifeSpring Sermon Blog
Sermon reflections from LifeSpring Church in Merced California.
Sermon reflections from LifeSpring Church in Merced California.
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Jun 20, 2024
The Crisis
Jun 20, 2024
Jun 20, 2024
22 min
Romans 7:21-25 is the text for this sermon which goes into the dilemma in which mankind finds itself. The purpose of Jesus' life was to permanently deal with sin and death.

Jun 11, 2024
The Pre-existent Word
Jun 11, 2024
Jun 11, 2024
19 min
This sermon is the first in a one-year series on Jesus, to conclude after Easter 2025. This sermon explores the fact that Jesus was God who took the form of a human and lived among us. This is the first and important fact needed to understand Jesus.

Jun 5, 2024
Lust—Smoke, Fire, and Ashes
Jun 5, 2024
Jun 5, 2024
23 min
This sermon is the last in our Seven Capital Sins series, and it takes its text from 1 Corinthians 6:2-20. The sermon explores the way that sexual desire often dominants our lives and creates havoc. What does God say about this?

May 28, 2024
May 28, 2024
23 min
This is vice number 6 in our look at the seven deadly or capital sins. The text for this sermon comes from Philippians 3:17-21 and takes a look at the internal motivations for gluttony and how it might also pertain to things that are not food.

May 23, 2024
Anger--Holy Emotion or Hellish Passion?
May 23, 2024
May 23, 2024
21 min
This sermon about Anger is taken from Ephesians 4:25-32. It distinguishes from constructive, godly anger, and anger that emerges from some selfish motive.

May 14, 2024
Avarice - I want it all.
May 14, 2024
May 14, 2024
22 min
Avarice or Greed is the next of the Capital Vices that is considered in this sermon. The text is 1 Timothy 6:6-10 which I Paul's famous warning that the LOVE of money is the root of all kinds of sin.

May 7, 2024
Sloth--Resistance to the Demands of Love
May 7, 2024
May 7, 2024
13 min
Often misunderstood, sloth is the sin of indifference in relationship to God and to the command to love. This sermon's text is taken from Proverbs 6:6-11.

Apr 30, 2024
Vainglory - Disordered Desire for Recognition
Apr 30, 2024
Apr 30, 2024
18 min
This sermon is from Matthew 6:1-8; 23:27-28, and it is about the second of the Seven Capital Vices - Vainglory. People Magazine and the Red Carpet at the Oscars are good places to see vainglory in graphic demonstration. Vainglory is the opposite of humility as taught and practices by Jesus.

Apr 25, 2024
Envy - Bitterness over the success of others
Apr 25, 2024
Apr 25, 2024
20 min
This is the first of the Seven Deadly or Capital Vices. The text from the sermon comes from James 3:14-16 and Romans 12:14-16. The sermon discusses what is different about Envy from Jealousy, and Covetousness.

Apr 16, 2024
Wisdom from the Desert
Apr 16, 2024
Apr 16, 2024
19 min
This sermon is the introductory sermon for a series on the Seven Capital (or Deadly) Sins. It takes its text from 2 Peter 1:4-8 and is an overview of the nature of both virtue and vice and the origins of the concept of Seven Capital Sins. Seven sermons will follow, each about one of the sins.

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