What Are You Chasing?

What are you chasing?

Dave Riddle - 8/14/22

Key Passage: Matthew 6:19-21

The STUFF we love is temporary

• Matthew 6:19

  • The things we chase so fervently disappear so quickly.

• James 4:13-14

  • We don’t know what tomorrow will bring.

    • Life is unpredictable!

  • Your life is like a puff of smoke.

• Psalm 39:4-5

  • Temporary, fleeting, gone so fast.

• Psalm 39:6

  • We rush around in vain, gathering possessions that won’t last.

What are you chasing?

• Dreams

• Money

• Possessions

• Love

• Happiness

Eternal Rewards

• Matthew 6:20

  • Store you for yourself treasures in Heaven.

• What are they? We don’t know.

• How do we receive them?

  • By pursuing Jesus.

  • Giving to the needy

  • Prayer and fasting

  • Being persecuted for Jesus

  • …all without seeking earthly recognition.

• 1 Timothy 6:17-19

  • Be rich in good works

  • Be generous and willing to share

  • …This is truly life!

• “He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot love”. - Jim Elliot

• Luke 12:15-21

  • Are we chasing and hoarding the things that we cannot keep?

• Matthew 6:21

  • Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Examine your heart to see which treasure you’re really chasing.

The Impact of Hope

The Impact of Hope

12/5/2021 - Dave Riddle 

Psalm 42:11 - why are you overcome with despair? Hope in God!

• We are the people of Hope.

  • Surrounded by despair, but not living in despair.

How is it that we can be legitimately hopeful?

God is.

• He exists

• Jeremiah 10

  • The worthlessness of idols compared to a true God. (10:10)

    • Jeremiah 10:16

God is here.

• Matthew 1:23 - God is with us.

• Hebrews 1:3a - Jesus is God in the flesh

  • Philippians 2:5-7

God is love.

• 1 John 4:8-9 - God is love.

• John 3:16-17 - How much God loves us.

• Titus 3:4-7 - what it means for us.

God is Salvation.

• Roman 8:38-39 - there is nothing that can separate us from the love of God.

• Hebrews 1:3 - God the Savior

God is King.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:13 - don’t live as those who have no hope

  • Ephesians 2:12 - We were… without Christ, without God, without hope. No longer!

• 1 Timothy 6:13-15 - Celebrating his first coming while awaiting his second coming!

  • God will make all things new!

• Hebrews 10:23 - hold tightly, without wavering, to the hope we affirm…

How can we embrace hope today?

Receive this truth in faith

• 1 Peter 5:7

Reflect on how God is providing hope in your life

• Psalm 9:1

Encourage another Jesus-follower you’ve seen exhibiting hope.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Share hope with someone in your missional context.

• 1 Peter 3:15

Hope - God in Our Midst

Hope - God In Our Midst

Christmas 2020 - 12/6/2020 - Dave Riddle

We Can Have Hope!

• Psalm 42:11 - Hope in the Lord!

• Psalm 62:5 - He is my only hope.

Why?

He is

• Jeremiah 10:10a - YHWH is the true and living God!

• Jeremiah 10:16 - Not just a passive idol, but the creator of everything!

He is here

• Matthew 1:23 - Immanuel (God with us)

• Here, and involved

  • Hebrews 1:3

  • Philippians 2:5-7

  • Colossians 1:15

  • 1 Peter 5:7

He is love

• 1 John 4:8 - God is love

• John 3:16 - God loved the world in this way...

• Titus 3:4-7 - love, grace, mercy, salvation

He is Savior

• Jesus / Yeshua / Joshua - The Lord Saves

• Romans 8:38-39 - there is nothing that can separate you from the salvation that Jesus has provided to you

• Hebrews 1:3

He is King!

• 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 - this life is not the end!

  • 1 Timothy 6:12-15