Sandhills Community Church Sermons
Weekly sermons from Sunday morning services at Sandhills Community Church in Columbia, SC.
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Sunday Jun 02, 2019
Sunday Jun 02, 2019
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?
Sunday May 26, 2019
Sunday May 26, 2019
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?
Sunday May 19, 2019
Sunday May 19, 2019
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 _______________
Sunday May 12, 2019
Sunday May 12, 2019
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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Sunday May 05, 2019
Sunday May 05, 2019
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?
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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?
Sunday Apr 28, 2019
Sunday Apr 28, 2019
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 _______________.
Sunday Apr 21, 2019
Sunday Apr 14, 2019
Sunday Apr 14, 2019
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?
Sunday Apr 07, 2019
Sunday Apr 07, 2019
Anything Goes
Judges 18
What is the background to this passage?
1. Anything Goes _______________ _______________
What verse in Judges tells us why Dan does not yet have its territory?
When the priest, Jonathan, meets the Danites, what should he have said to them?
What are the aspects of this “new land” that the Danites find attractive?
2. Anything Goes _______________ _______________
Why did the Danites stop by Micah’s house?
What offer do the Danites make to Jonathan the priest?
In what passage does Isaiah mock those who make their own gods?
3. Anything Goes in the Name _______________ _______________ _______________
With whom does the author seem to sympathize, the Danites or the Canaanites?
Where was the location of worship supposed to be?
4. Anything Goes with _______________?
Sunday Mar 31, 2019
Sunday Mar 31, 2019
Anything Goes
Judges 17
How are these final chapters different than the previous chapters?
1. Anything Goes __________ __________ _______________
Did the son steal a significant amount of money?
Why did Micah likely return the money to his mother?
2. Anything Goes _______________ _______________
Where in Scripture do we find a biblical prohibition against making idols?
What is “syncretism”?
What is a warning for those of us that do want to be devout followers of Christ?
Who were the Levites?
3. Anything Goes with _______________ _______________
What is the role of a “priest”?
What does it mean to be ordained to ministry?
4. How do we prevent “anything goes” _______________?