Murphy Church Sunday Messages

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The birth of Christ was not an accident it was part of God’s plan from the beginning. Long before Mary was ever born, Isaiah looked forward to the miracle of Christ’s birth. Jesus was God’s divine plan for Mary and Joseph, but it wasn’t there original plan. In fact, being a part of God’s plan meant a major change in plans for this young couple. Sometimes, experiencing God’s best in life requires that we abandon our own version of what should be and instead embrace God’s story for our lives. Join us this Sunday as we continue our series Looking Forward with a message entitled “Get with the Plan.”

Centuries before the birth of Christ the prophet Ezekiel looked forward to happier days when God would restore the hearts of man through the work of His Messiah. On that day God would “remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh (Ezekiel 36:26).” Looking forward to Bethlehem, “The Word became flesh” and the Word in flesh lived among us and died for us. But death could not contain Him, and the stone was rolled away. The Spirit of God brings more than better days to those who believe; He brings a heart of flesh: forever uniting you with the “The Heart of Christmas.”

Two women separated by centuries but connected by God's eternal plan and creative power. Sarah and Mary were seemingly at opposite sides of life’s spectrum, but God would use them to reveal His transformational plan. Through the miracle of new life, God would bring about the miracle of eternal life. Join us this week as we begin our Christmas series Looking Forward. . . with a sermon entitled, “It Can Happen.”

The holiday season is officially underway: a season of peace, love, joy, and. . . .lots of family, food, and football (or, for some, Hallmark movies). It’s the family part of the holidays that for many causes the peace, love, and joy of the holidays to be replaced with conflict, isolation, and hurt. Join us this week as we look at Romans 12:16-21 and identify some practical and biblical things you can do to get along with your family and friends this Christmas season in a sermon entitled Learning to Like Your Loved Ones.

The spirit of gratitude flows from the fountain of God’s grace. When grace erases the stain of sin from our soul, the result is a life free to love much. Join us this week as we prepare our hearts for Thanksgiving with a sermon entitled The Spirit of Gratitude.

Join John "Fletch" Fletcher, our Student Minister, as he brings a message that we are no longer salves but we are sons of God. From Galatians 3:27-4:7.

Sometimes it’s easy to miss it, even though the signs are all right in front of us. We tend to see what we want to see and overlook what we don’t want to see. Amazingly, sometimes we miss God even when He’s when the signs or His love are right in front of us. Jesus healed the blind and raised the dead, and, amazingly, many missed it. In the words of Jesus “We played the flute for you, but you did not dance.” Join us this week as we look at Luke 7:18-29 in a sermon entitled Flutes without Dancing.

There’s a fine line between winning and losing, joy and sorrow, victory and defeat. In Luke 7:11-17, we see “The Collision of the Crowds.” One of the crowds was filled with joy; the other crowd was filled with grief. Both crowds reached a point, where they had no solutions. It was at that point, that God revealed that he is the solution. Jesus gave something only God can give: new life.

Jesus was continually forcing us to wrestle with this question: “Where do I place my hope?” Where you place your hope is where we find your faith. Christ's call was to place our faith in Him, not ourselves, not society, not an unknown force. Jesus called us to trust in Him. Join us this week as we look at two stories of faith from Luke 7:1-16, in a sermon entitled Living in the Faith World.

It’s amazing how much of life hinges on little decisions driven by character. Our lives become the sum of decisions we make, and the decisions we make are the canvas of wisdom’s art or the fool’s folly. In Luke 6:46-49, Jesus tells the story of two men whose lives looked very similar until the storm blew in and the foundations were exposed, and, then, their fates couldn’t have been more different. Join us this week as we continue our series: The Red Letters with a sermon entitled What’s Missing?

One of the most exciting spiritual breakthroughs is to awaken to the reality of salvation by grace. In grace, I do good things because I am God’s child, rather than doing good things in hopes of becoming God’s child. As Lash likes to say, “I do because I am not in order to be.” Jesus teaches this idea in Luke 6:43-45 through the illustration of a fig tree. Join us this week as we continue The Red Letters series with part 3: “From the Inside Out.”

What did Jesus mean when he said, “Judge not, less you be judged?” It’s a verse that finds its way into conversations between family, friends, and neighbors. It’s important to understand what Jesus actually meant when he spoke these words. Join us this week as we look at Luke 6:37-42 in a sermon entitled, “Don’t Judge Me, Man!?”

How should we react when someone treats us wrongly or doesn’t like us? Should we treat our enemies the way they treat us, or is there a better, godly way, of engaging the enemy. This week we continue our series The Red Letters looking at Luke 6:27-36 in a message entitled Engaging the Enemy.

We all desire a life filled with blessings, laughter, and joy, and we do all sorts of things trying to achieve that life. In Luke 6:20-23, Jesus teaches us that blessings, laughter, and joy are the results of being not doing. Specifically, we find what we desire most when we find ourselves in Christ. Join us this week as we begin a series entitled The Red Letters as we look at one of Jesus most well known teachings in a sermon entitled “The Beatitudes.”

God has a divine right to make choices for His creation. Because we are not God, we often do not understand the choices God has made. Sometimes we become spiritually stale as we wrestle to accept the divine choices of God. Join us this week study Luke 6:12-16 in a sermon entitled Divine Choices.

In our fast-paced, highly-mobile, always connected, society, mercy and rest are often hard to find. Enter God, who reminds us of the basic human need that each of us have to slow down so that we can hear the voice of God and see the needs around us. Join us this week as we continue our series, The Son of God with a sermon entitled Rest and See from Luke 6:1-11.

For years they practiced praying and fasting: waiting on an answer from God. When God sent His Son, the answer had arrived. But, it was difficult for many to realize that Jesus was not just a modification of what was. Jesus brought a whole new beginning fulfilling what had been and making possible the impossible. Join us this week as we look at Luke 5:33-39 in a sermon entitled Let’s Eat.

We’re not sure when it happened to Levi. Growing up in Galilee, he too had suffered under the violence and greed of Rome. But now, he found himself captive to the very things he once despised; he was a tax collector exploiting his own neighbors. His countrymen considered him the lowest of the low, but Jesus knew that he was not beyond the reach of grace and extended to him a new beginning.

Every week we share the requests: family members, friends, neighbors in need of a healing. We pray for their healing and encourage them to faith. Sometimes, their bodies get better; sometimes they don’t, and we are left to wonder why? This week we look at Luke 5:12-16 as we look at two men who received physical healing from Jesus and explore how God’s will goes beyond the physical realm desiring to bring spiritual healing to the soul.