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First Pres Colorado Springs Sermons
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Sermons from Sunday worship at First Presbyterian Church of Colorado Springs are available on Monday or Tuesday after they are delivered. We welcome you to visit us in person in downtown Colorado Springs, online at www.firstprescos.org or on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (@firstprescos).
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The People of God: Children of the Promise
May 3100:28:35Tap to summarizeWho is the church? Who are the people of God? In Paul’s ministry he regularly confronted those who assumed the definition was racial. We are quick to divide along racial lines assuming that those like us are alike better than those who are not like us. But this is not the basis for defining the people of God. It has always been bigger than that. God’s salvation is way beyond racial lines. We are not primarily white, black, latino, asian, etc… We are defined as those who trust in the promises of God—that is, in Jesus. Speaker: Mateen Elass
Transcribe →What Are You Praying For?: Conquering Love
May 2400:32:37Tap to summarizeOn Pentecost, we are reminded that the Holy Spirit is within us. We are not just in a relationship with God, but God is inside of us and that means we are inside of God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). How does that make the external threats appear to you, knowing that internal is the Spirit of the Living God? If God is for us, who can be against us? Pray for a full knowledge (intellectual and emotional) of the all-conquering love of Jesus you have within you and for you today. Speaker: Tim McConnell
Transcribe →What Are You Praying For?: Enduring Hope
May 1000:36:12Tap to summarizeWho your parents are makes a big difference in your life. If you are in Christ, you are a child of the living God. The Holy Spirit teaches your spirit to cry Abba because God is your Father. Kids of royalty grow up knowing there is an inheritance and a kingdom to be handed on to them in time. What about children of God? Knowing what is coming, we can endure the travails of life in our times. Suffering looks different when you have a future secured in God (v. 18). We can have enduring hope—like a mother who hopes for the good of her child--enduring hope that the Day of the Lord is coming. Speaker: Tim McConnell
Transcribe →What Are You Praying For?: Resurrection Life
May 300:24:22Tap to summarizeThough we are living life in the flesh, we are spiritual beings. We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience so much as spiritual beings having a physical experience. We pray to live into the spiritual life we have in Jesus. Do we have any idea what it means to have the same power that raised Jesus from the dead living inside of us? Pray for awareness and confidence in the resurrection life. We are a resurrection people and we can live resurrection lives today. Speaker: Greg Hartnett
Transcribe →What Are You Praying For?: Inner Peace
Apr 2600:35:44Tap to summarizeIf I could have peace inside me, it wouldn’t matter much what is happening all around me. Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem “If” begins: “If you can keep your head when all about you; Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.” Inner peace is a stasis that can get you through many toils. But I am at war within myself. Paul is at war within himself. Sin is at war with Spirit. I can’t understand my own actions. We are fractured inside. Our deeds fail to match our intentions which fail to match the holy life Christ inspires in us by His Spirit. The life of prayer is where we get things sorted out. Practicing prayer allows the Lord to work in our lives to bring wholeness and integrity. The truth is we are habituated to sin while longing to be free to the Spirit. Pray for inner peace, wholeness and integrity. Speaker: Tim McConnell
Transcribe →What Are You Praying For?: Freedom From, Freedom For
Apr 1900:36:13Tap to summarizeThere are two types of freedom: freedom from and freedom for. Christ has set us free. We are liberated from sin’s binding power. St. Augustine outlined four stages of humanity: able to sin; not able not to sin; able not to sin; and finally (in Heaven) not able to sin. We are as believers “able not to sin.” We are free from the penalty for sin and we are free from slavery to it. But we enslave ourselves nonetheless. Our freedom from was bought so we would have freedom for—freedom for serving Jesus and loving others. We pray for freedom from sin so we can be free for the beautiful life won by Christ. Speaker: Tim McConnell
Transcribe →Like Him We Rise: Freedom's Gift
Apr 1200:29:11Tap to summarizeHow now then shall we live? What manner of life befits a person saved by the grace of God in Jesus Christ who is dead to sin and alive to Christ? Today we read the names of saints. Yes, saints, if they believed in Jesus. What we believe and hope and trust they know and see and celebrate. Jesus has won. What sin deserves is death. Not just a body running out of steam and breathing its last, but divorce from God Almighty, separation from God for eternity. Some of us are dead already; far from God. That’s what the loving father said about his prodigal son in Luke 15, “he was dead; but is now alive.” Some of us were dead; but if you put your faith in Christ, the free gift is eternal life. No more slavery to sin. Freedom’s gift is freely given. Jesus Christ paid the price. Speaker: John Goodale
Transcribe →The Lord's Prayer: The Lord's Prayer – Forgiveness
Jul 31, 2022Tap to summarizeWe cannot come into God’s presence without the forgiveness found in Jesus Christ. With God there is forgiveness. The heart of the gospel message is the availability of forgiveness (Luke 24:47). We don’t find forgiveness by making excuses or by asserting our rightness. We find forgiveness by admitting our faults and confessing our sins before the Holy One, and allowing Him to take our sins to the cross. Speaker: Tim McConnell
Transcribe →The Lord's Prayer: The Lord's Prayer – Providence
Jul 24, 2022Tap to summarizeWe live as dependents, fed by the hand of God. God gives what we need. (Psalm 104:27-31). All existence is contingent on the active and sustaining hand of God. He holds all things together by His will. What do you have that you have not received from God? Living in dependence on God is not constraining, but liberating. With each ounce of daily bread, our love and trust in our Father grows. Jesus said, I am the bread of life. (John 6:35) We don’t entrust our lives to an unseen spiritual force or principle, but to Jesus. Speaker: Tim McConnell
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