Steve Durand - October 1, 2017
A Hill Worth Dying On, part 1 – Galatians 2:1-10
Experienced leaders eventually learn that every hill is not worth dying on. Meaning, there will always be certain issues and conflicts and problems that will be brought to a leader’s attention throughout the course of a day, and that leader will need to quickly decide which battles are truly worth expending valuable time, energy, and resources to fight, and which battles to move on from or to ignore altogether.
Christ-followers must also do the same thing in an effort to grow in our faith as believers, to preserve our Christian unity and fellowship, and to spread God’s love and good news to the world around us. Some battles are worth fighting, and some aren’t. The problem for us today is that the one primary hill upon which all Christ-followers should be willing to battle and die, if necessary, is still left open to attack from enemies, both within and outside the church – just as it was when the apostle Paul wrote his letter to the Galatians. What is that particular hill, and why is it still worth dying on today?
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This Week's Sermon: "Our Only Boast"
We may not freely admit it, but all of us are adept at one thing: boasting. We boast every day, whether publicly or privately, about seemingly anything and everything: family, possessions, abilities, achievements, grades, social connections – you name it. You may even be inwardly boasting right now about the fact that you don’t boast as much as other people do!
The point is that we all boast about, or take pride in, something. And what we choose to boast about actually says a lot more than we realize about who we are at our core, about what we really value, what drives and defines us, what validates us and makes us feel more significant, and even what gives us hope.
There are lots of things – even legitimately good things – about which we can choose to boast. But can you say that you are daily boasting in the one thing that matters more than anything else in life?
