Advent - Liferoads Church https://liferoads.org Helping people become Fully Alive in Christ Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:41:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://liferoads.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cropped-cross-100x100.jpg Advent - Liferoads Church https://liferoads.org 32 32 Waiting Room – Peace https://liferoads.org/sermons/waiting-room-peace/ Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:37:54 +0000 https://liferoads.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&p=5066 If you have never been able to make it through the book of Numbers, you’re not alone. Reading it can feel like sitting in the DMV, “take a number.” Yes, the book is full of numbers and can get very repetitive, but there are also some very interesting stories in there. One of those stories (Numbers 22-24) has to do with a selfish prophet named Balaam. Though he clearly hears God (even through his donkey) and he desires the peace […]

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]]> If you have never been able to make it through the book of Numbers, you’re not alone. Reading it can feel like sitting in the DMV, “take a number.” Yes, the book is full of numbers and can get very repetitive, but there are also some very interesting stories in there. One of those stories (Numbers 22-24) has to do with a selfish prophet named Balaam. Though he clearly hears God (even through his donkey) and he desires the peace God offers His people (Numbers 23:10), Balaam chooses his own path instead of trusting the promised peace of God (Numbers 24:13-17). The words of peace that God prophesied through Balaam come to be realized in the birth of Jesus, the Messiah (Matthew 2:1-12). God makes His invitation clear. It is an invitation of cosmic peace. It is an invitation to join His family and forever be in relationship with THE Prince of Peace.

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]]> Waiting Room – Hope https://liferoads.org/sermons/waiting-room-hope/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:36:32 +0000 https://liferoads.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&p=5063 How do we be patient in our waiting periods? How do we recognize that it is not a waste of time? The fall broke our relationship with God, others, creation, and ourselves. However, in the same verses of Genesis that describe the fall, God presents the protoevangelium; the first good news of the redeemer. Jesus is that redeemer. He brought Himself down to a position such that Satan could strike His heel, yet in the same act, Jesus crushed Satan […]

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]]> How do we be patient in our waiting periods? How do we recognize that it is not a waste of time? The fall broke our relationship with God, others, creation, and ourselves. However, in the same verses of Genesis that describe the fall, God presents the protoevangelium; the first good news of the redeemer. Jesus is that redeemer. He brought Himself down to a position such that Satan could strike His heel, yet in the same act, Jesus crushed Satan (John 12:28-31). This was God’s plan before the foundation of the world (1 Peter 1:19-20) (Rev 13:8). And God’s plan requires waiting. During this time God is doing great things in us and around us. We have hope in this, and we must be patient (James 5:7-11). For, we who wait shall have renewed strength and will not be exhausted. We shall mount with wings like eagles and we will run without weary (Isaiah 40:30-31).

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]]> Let There Be Light – Pt. 5 https://liferoads.org/sermons/let-there-be-light-pt-5/ Mon, 24 Dec 2018 16:31:19 +0000 http://liferoads.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&p=2942 It's Christmas Eve. We celebrate the coming of the Light of the World in Jesus.

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]]> Let There Be Light – Pt. 4 https://liferoads.org/sermons/let-there-be-light-pt-4/ Sun, 23 Dec 2018 23:42:20 +0000 http://liferoads.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&p=2938 Jesus is the light of the world. As His followers, we are also called salt and light. Just as the children's song says, we need to let our light shine in the darkness of this world.

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Matthew 6:1-4

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]]> Let There Be Light – Pt. 1 https://liferoads.org/sermons/let-there-be-light-pt-1/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 02:50:40 +0000 http://liferoads.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&p=2901 When the days are short, and it is the darkest time of the year, we do something interesting: we light everything up! God also brought light into the darkness in creation. He brought light forth simply by His word. The word of God is powerful, and the scale of His creation is immense. But He still wants to be involved in the smallest details in each of our lives. He wants to be able to exercise His creating power in our lives.

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Psalms 33:6

2 Corinthians 4:5-6

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