This powerful teaching confronts us with a difficult but transformative truth: God's discipline in our lives is not punishment, but parenting. Drawing from Hebrews 12, we're invited to reconsider our entire relationship with pain, correction, and adversity. The message challenges our modern tendency to avoid all discomfort and protect ourselves and our children from every negative experience. Yet Scripture reveals that God uses adverse circumstances redemptively—not to make us pay, but to mak...
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This powerful teaching confronts us with a difficult but transformative truth: God's discipline in our lives is not punishment, but parenting. Drawing from Hebrews 12, we're invited to reconsider our entire relationship with pain, correction, and adversity. The message challenges our modern tendency to avoid all discomfort and protect ourselves and our children from every negative experience. Yet Scripture reveals that God uses adverse circumstances redemptively—not to make us pay, but to mak...
The God Who Changes Us: God Confronts our Pride | Jared Davis
River City Church
41 minutes
1 month ago
The God Who Changes Us: God Confronts our Pride | Jared Davis
This sermon explores the theme of pride and how it opposes God's plan for our lives. The pastor emphasizes that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. He discusses the centrality of Jesus in the universe and how our pride can put us in opposition to God's will. The sermon calls for believers to receive hard truths, reject easy lies, and embrace God's grace, mercy, and forgiveness. It highlights God's humility in pursuing us despite our pride and encourages a posture of submissio...
River City Church
This powerful teaching confronts us with a difficult but transformative truth: God's discipline in our lives is not punishment, but parenting. Drawing from Hebrews 12, we're invited to reconsider our entire relationship with pain, correction, and adversity. The message challenges our modern tendency to avoid all discomfort and protect ourselves and our children from every negative experience. Yet Scripture reveals that God uses adverse circumstances redemptively—not to make us pay, but to mak...