Do you have a tendency to take a bit too much credit for your success while overlooking God’s blessing in your life? Even with the best of intentions, the human heart always defaults toward pride. Today Pastor J.D. will continue our series, Broken Saviors. Beginning in Judges chapter 8, we see how Gideon’s victory as a warrior began to inflate his ego. Rather than giving glory to God, he chose to act like a king who deserved special treatment. In a real sense, Gideon manufactured his own “broken savior.”
When the Good Goes Bad, Part 2
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30 June, 2022
Series: Broken Saviors
Speaker: J.D. Greear
Book: Judges
We’re looking at a collection of stories from Judges, Chapters 17 to 21–accounts that reveal the tragic outcome when a society turns its back on God’s leading.
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29 June, 2022
Series: Broken Saviors
Speaker: J.D. Greear
Book: Judges
This message looks at the final chapters of the book of Judges. It’s a time when the Israelites turned their backs on God’s leading. They still acknowledged him with their lips, but they’d become, in essence, a nation of atheists.
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28 June, 2022
Series: Broken Saviors
Speaker: J.D. Greear
Book: Judges
Just like Samson, we’ve all fallen into the trap of our own desires. So what’s the answer?