Robert Lewis Sermons

What about Doubt?

Sermon by Dr. Robert Lewis

4/22/2001

Ways We Experience Doubt:

• Theological
• Experiential 
• Personal
  • About Me
  • About God

Observations About Doubt:

• Doubt is uncertainty about a thing, not a conclusion.
• Doubt and faith are not incompatible.
• Doubt can be spiritually paralyzing for those who confuse faith with certainty.
• Doubt usually ends in one of three places.
  • A greater faith and fruitfulness
  • Lifeless stagnation
  • Apostasy

How To Deal With Your Doubt:

• Don't be afraid of your doubt - God isn't.
• Talk to people about your doubt.
• Talk to God about your doubt.
• Press to resolve your doubt. Take risks and do research but don't drift in it. 

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The Great Need for Life Changers

Sermon by Dr. Robert Lewis

3/25/2001

Explore the transformative power of embracing Jesus Christ and becoming life changers. Discover the importance of teaching that makes sense and healing that meets real needs, as we challenge and inspire to actively engage in leading others to a life-changing relationship with Jesus.

Matt 9:35-38

After this Life - What?

Sermon by Dr. Robert Lewis

3/11/2001

Death poses the ultimate question of our existence, with the options being either eternal nothingness or eternal life with meaning.

Luke 16:19-31

The Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make?

Sermon by Dr. Robert Lewis

2/11/2001

The essentials of becoming a Christian by the importance of full knowledge, real conviction, and radical commitment in the decision to follow Christ lend you to have a life-changing encounter with God.

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Prayer and Deliverance

Sermon by Dr. Robert Lewis

1/28/2001

The story of David emphasizes the significance of confession, repentance, and seeking God for finding deliverance and reconnection in our spiritual journeys.

1 Sam 29:1-31:3

David Steps Up

Sermon by Dr. Robert Lewis

12/17/2000

What David's life teaches us about our process:

• Consult God first in everything.
• Loyal friends can be critical in helping you find God's will.
• Beware of "spiritualizing" circumstances and automatically calling it "God's will".
• No situation is impossible to trust God with. 
• "Stepping up" means encountering God more often. 

1 Sam 23

Facing the Giants of Life

Sermon by Dr. Robert Lewis

11/19/2000

The Call:

• To David - take the kingdom
• To Us - Take the Kingdom

The Promise:

• To David -  The Throne
• To Us - abundant life

Israel: Giant problem - if you’re not spiritually ready, every problem will be a giant.

What made David different:

• He had already faced other giants and won.
• He had personally cultivated a big heart for God.
• He was willing to take great risks of Faith in order to prove God’s reality.

How to bring the giants of your life down:

• It requires disdain for the status quo.
• It requires close encounters with God for heart direction.
• It requires daring moments of faith at the risk of your own welfare.

1 Sam 17, Ps 27

Winning in the Arena of Wellness

Sermon by Dr. Robert Lewis

11/5/2000

Our opponent is heart disease.

• A look at life’s most vital organs - When you lose at the heart level, you lose it all.
  • Physically - life starts in the heart.
  • Spiritually
• The four hearts of scripture
  • The defective heart - pumping life back to yourself
  • The new heart
  • The healthy heart - a step up from new heart
  • The diseased heart - if you don’t care for the new heart
• Common characteristics of the “healthy” heart:
  • Good nutrition - your intake
  • Abstinence - saying no to unhealthy things
  • Downtime to reflect and hear God
  • Courageous faith exercises

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Winning in the Arena of Emotion

Sermon by Dr. Robert Lewis

10/22/2000

Our opponent is anger.

• Anger is energy that is focused. It can rally you the right way or the wrong way.
• Three specific types of anger:
  • Righteous anger - right reaction, right response
  • Misplaced anger - right reaction, wrong response
  • Problematic anger - wrong reaction, wrong response
• From anger to angry -- why?
  • Angry people come from angry families.
  • Angry people come from wounded backgrounds.
  • Angry people are often "control freaks" using anger for protection or gain.
  • Angry people have serious, unmet expectations and feel trapped.
  • Angry people are most often men.
• Action points for taking the gold:
  • For those who are angered
    • Don't go hot or cold, learn to express yourself directly.
    • Listen and be willing to forgive.
    • Be quick about it.
    • Memorize Eph 4:25-27
  • For those who stay angry
    • Admit you have an anger problem.
    • Find the root cause.
    • Be courageous and willing to change whatever behavior fuels that anger.
    • Enlist the support of others.
    • Ask for God's help.

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Winning in the Arena of Balance

Sermon by Dr. Robert Lewis

9/24/2000

Our opponent is prosperity.

• The danger prosperity brings:
  • Pride - the complete anti-God state of mind.
  • Forgetfulness - forget about God.
  • Deceit - makes temporal and eternal things look the same.
  • Fruitlessness
  • Hoarding - the more we have, the less we give.
  • Pain - people who hurt aren't happy.
• The call to balance
  • Imbalance perspectives:
    • Become Poor - voluntary self-imposed
    • Get Rich - don't let the wealth replace Jesus.
  • A balanced perspective is staying focused and cultivate generosity.
• How to maintain balance and "win gold":
  • Recognize that prosperity makes godly living harder, not easier.
  • Know that discipline must replace what desperation once demanded.
  • Invest in good works and expect life's best. 
  • Always have an accountability system.
  • Keep thinking about meeting God for an accounting of all you've been give, because one day you will.

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