Teaching from Curwensville Alliance (Pastor Steve Shields)
What role does God play in your life, really?
Is He an invention? Is God a distant figure? Is He handy to have around? Or does He fill the Role of Beautiful One in your life?
Listen as Pastor Steve shows how we can see God’s beauty in our lives in His Omnipresence, Omniscience, Omnipotence, Holiness, Justice and Love.
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When you encounter pain, it can show you the priorities in your life. Pain can also show us that God is worthy of being our first priority!
There are surprises that come with making God your priority.
In this podcast, Pastor Steve reveals how pain can interfere with our priorities. He also tells us why God is worthy of being our first priority, and the surprises we encounter in our life when we make God our priority!
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Most Christians want to feel like they are in tune with God. Whether or not you attend church, read your Bible, or spend much time in prayer, you probably feel like, “Meh – God and I are okay.”
Then something happens.
Pain comes along. It doesn’t have to be big.
Even the pain of an unexpected setback can alert you to the reality that you’re not as in tune with God as you thought you were.
In this podcast, Pastor Steve offers biblical counsel on how to be in tune with God.
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We all face pain at some point in our lives. Facing that pain can painfully reveal to us that we are not as tough as we think.
Pain can highlight areas of weakness.
In this podcast, Pastor Steve shows us what those weakness may be as well as outline the solutions to dealing with those weaknesses.
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When you are confronted with pain, how do you respond?
Some people get angry. Some withdraw. Some look for ways to get even.
Did you ever consider that pain may be a teacher – teaching you things that will benefit you in the long run?
In this podcast, the first in the series Pain, the Substitute Teacher, Pastor Steve lays out several questions that pain may evoke in our lives.
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What does the resurrection of Jesus really matter?
Does it change anything about my day to day life?
In this podcast, Pastor Steve addresses the implications of Jesus’ resurrection, encouraging us from the Word of God.
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During the season of being SafeAtHome, we can still enjoy the Lord’s Supper.
Prepare your bread and your cup and join us.
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We have talked about the different lids in our lives over the last few months.
These lids keep us from growing closer to God. Now what do we do?
Take them to the cross!
We all have lids in our lives that keep us from growing closer to God. To remove these lids, we need to take them to the cross.
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Fear…
If there is one thing that keeps you from moving forward in you life, it’s probably fear.
It acts as a lid, holding you down. Maybe as the most effective of lids.
When you look around at our world, do you ever feel afraid?
In this podcast, Pastor Steve looks at King Saul and discusses how we can deal with fear.
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Hypocrisy — it shows up in a lot of different forms.
There’s the good old double-standard:
Dad – why do YOU get seconds on ice-cream and we don’t!!!
There’s the issue of pretending, where you say,
Well – I never do that.
And then you get caught doing…that!
And then there’s the issue of moral duplicity,
where you pretend you’re doing something for one reason, but you’re really doing for another, self-serving reason.
What we may or may not realize is that hypocrisy is a lid — something that holds us down and prevents us from being who God wants us to become.
This podcast helps us identify hypocrisy in our own lives and deal with it from the counsel of Jesus in Matthew 6.
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