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All Problems Are Spiritual Problems We cannot forget that the reason that we have problems at all comes from the spiritual warfare that first occurred in the Garden of Eden. Whether by suffering or enticement, each one of us must war against sinful desires. As James 1:14-15 tells us temptation, leads to desire. Desire conceives
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Originally Proclaimed 05/24/20 Intro: In 2001 a show premiered named the Amazing Race. Pitting two person teams against one another as they raced to complete tasks and make it to a destination, the teams had to strategize and plan how to advance and delay other teams from reaching their destinations. Shows like this, including Big Brother
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So when we begin a shepherding call we want to… Assess the Presenting Problem. To do this we must listen carefully to the person. Let’s read James 1:18 We also must ask good questions, seeking to become involved in the gritty details of this person’s life so that we might understand them.[2] (Proverbs 18:2 & 13).
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Originally Proclaimed: 05/17/20 Intro: From Disney’s Be Our Chef to Food Network’s Chopped to Fox’s most explosive one of all, Hell’s Kitchen, cooking shows represent much of the competition on television today. Now as we consider that trend, think for just a moment of the way that most of us learned to cook. Under the watchful eye of my Mama,
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As a brief review, we have been examining the framework given to us in Jeremiah 17:5-13 for analyzing problems biblically. Ever problem has a root issue residing in the person’s posture towards God. We also discovered that the root issue will produce good fruit or bad fruit in that person’s life that is easily visible.
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Originally Proclaimed: 05/10/20 Intro: One of the longest running gameshows, Family Feud pits two ordinary families against one another as they try to guess the top results of a survey question. While the answers to the survey questions may be interesting, it is the way these families interact with the host, their family members, and
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From the prior section, we agreed that Jeremiah 17 teaches us that every problem has a root issue in the heart or inward posture of a person towards God. Thus every problem at its core is a spiritual problem. Further, for shepherds, the goal must always be treating the root problem, not symptoms that a