Sandhills Community Church Sermons

The Battle for Truth 2.0 Deception - Tom Medeiros (6/16/19)

Battle for Truth 2.0 - Deception
Colossians 2:1-8 
Recap: Battle for Truth 1.0 - Truth
Nature of Deception
Power of Deception
Deception Today
Deception on the Horizon
Defeating Deception
 
 

The Battle For Truth - Tom Medeiros (6/9/19)

The Battle For Truth
Romans 1:18-25 
1. The nature of the conflict
2. What is truth?
3. The power of truth
4. Wielding the truth
 
 

Judges 19 - The Depravity of a nation - Jeff Philpott (6/2/19)

Judges - The Depravity of a Nation
Judges 19 
What does Judges 21:25 remind us?
1. The Depravity of _______________  _______________  _______________
What is a Levite?
What is a concubine?
Life isn’t a series of individual events like _______________, but it’s like…
2. The Depravity of a _______________
This scene is similar to one we find in Genesis 19, with the cities of _______________ and _______________
What horrible compromise is made?
What shapes our view of women in our time?
Nobody is named in this story?  Is that significant?
3. The Depravity of a _______________
How do we change our culture today?
When God is not our king…
What is one practical application for us today?

Margin: Breathing Room for the Soul - David Olshine (5/26/19)

Margin: Breathing Room for the Soul 
Work is Good
Margins and boundaries are essential
What’s the problem with poor margins?
Stress level increases
Lose perspective
Relational conflicts
Time spins out of control
Do you have margins and breathing room in these areas?  
Family Life?
Work?
Spiritual Disciplines?
Friendships and mentoring?  
Exercise, health and bodily well being?  
Rest?
Playful diversions?
Three Key Principles to create Soul Space and Pace
#1: ____________________ (Galatians 1:13-24) 
#2: ____________________ (Genesis 2:2-3; Exodus 20:8-10)
#3: ____________________ (Matthew 14:13; Matthew 14:23; Matthew 15:21)
Application: Take a baby step today
Where do you need breathing room? What areas are you doing well? Where do you need help?
What do you need to say YES to? Where do you need to say NO?

Margin: Making Room for What's Important with your family - Chris Ledley (5/19/19)

Margin: Making Room for What’s Important
Part 3
1. Widen the _______________ 
2. Imagine the _______________
3. Fight for the _______________
4. Create a _______________
5. Make it _______________
 
 

Margin: Managing a Christian Budget - Jeff Philpott (5/12/19)

The Suitcase: Managing a Christian Budget
What does the suitcase represent?
What does the “stuff” we pack into our suitcase represent?
Together, the suitcase and the stuff represent our _______________
What is the "big myth”?
What is a Christian budget?
1.  Worship 
What does Proverbs 3:9-10 remind us?
What does prioritizing our giving to the Lord reflect?
2.  Stewardship
What does Proverbs 11:24 remind us?
What does 2 Corinthians 9:6-7 remind us? 
3.  Investment
SCC Purpose:
What does Matthew 6:19-21 remind us?
What is a “Warning” we need to heed?
Managing a Christian Budget:
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Margin : Making room for what's important with your time - Jeff Philpott (5/5/19)

Margin: Making Room for What’s Important
Hebrews 12:1-4
Where do we find a definition for “faith" in the Scripture?
What is a struggle for many Christians?
What does Ephesians 2:8-10 remind us?
As Christians consider their “spiritual activity” before the Lord, what are two problems they tend to encounter?
1.
2.
What is a “Big Myth” in our lives?
What does it mean that “Life is like a suitcase”?
Look at Hebrews 12:1-4.  
We have _______________
To whom does the “cloud of witnesses” refer?
What entangles?
What does James 5:16 remind us?
We have _______________
What does it mean that Jesus “despised shame”?
How do we keep from growing “faint-hearted”?
How can I make room for what’s important?
What is one change I can make?
Who do I need as a running partner?

Ascension - David Olshine & Larry Dixon (4/28/19)

Four Meanings of the Ascension
1. Father's approval of the _______________
2. Jesus _______________ for us from heaven
3. Jesus' second coming _______________
4. Birth of the _______________ through the Holy Spirit
Two Big Takeaways
1. Jesus’ resurrection and ascension changes _______________
2. Live it. Tell it. Be Christ's _______________.
 
 

He is Risen! - Jeff Philpott (4/21/19)

Palm Sunday - Matthew 21:1-11 - Jeff Philpott (4/14/19)

Disappointing an Angry God
Palm Sunday - Matthew 21:1-11
How do we tend to think of God and how He views us?
Of what are we reminded in Romans 7:15-19?
Where can we find a picture of how God views us?
When we see Jesus, we see _______________  _______________
What does Romans 5:8 remind us?
According to Luke 7:36-50, to what kind of people does Jesus show compassion?  
_______________  &  _______________
In Matthew 21:1-11, how many people were likely in and around Jerusalem during this Palm Sunday?
What is the meaning of “hosanna”?
Why do we call this Sunday Palm Sunday?
Do we need to reframe our view of God, or how we perceive His view of us?