"leslie herron" Tagged Sermons (Page 4)
The Heart of Prophecy
“I would like every one of you to speak in tongues, but I would rather have you prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be edified.” (I Corinthians 14:5) God has given us spiritual gifts to bless the world around us yet we spend so much time explaining them away. Why do we fight so hard against these things? Is pride or false humility keeping you from…
What Does the Good Neighbor Give Away?
“Christians are not meant to be hiding in their homes hoping the world leaves them alone. We are called to be outside and changing our world one neighbor at a time” (Pastor Les) Many, maybe most, Christians believe that being a good neighbor is simply not being a bad, annoying neighbor. This idea that Jesus wants us to love our neighbors and that commandment is fulfilled by smiling, not getting drunk and yelling at 3:00 a.m. or keeping our yard…
Prophecy is Our Tongue Connected to God’s Heart
“Prophecy is the love language of God” (Kris Vallottoon) Pastor Les takes us thru a small portion of Ezekiel 37 at a time when God takes Ezekiel on a walk thru a valley of dry bones. We discover that… God doesn’t ask Ezekiel for his opinion but his faith We never get to decide what is dead If we don’t speak then things will remain dead We speak God’s heart, not our opinions Les challenges us to prophesy scripture…
You Can Prophesy Today
“Why did the Prophetic nature of Jesus wreck the Religious? Not because it pointed out their sin but because it highlighted God’s love for the Sinner!” (Pastor Les) We assume that the Fruit of the Spirit is to be manifest in our daily lives but rarely do we imagine that the Gifts of the Spirit are to be manifest regularly in our lives. The Apostle Paul says that he would like everyone in the Church at Corinth to speak in…
A Culture of Faith & Risk
Faith is confidence in God–that God is who He says He is and that we are who He says we are. Faith is confidence in the voice that comes from the One we cannot see. Without faith it is impossible to please God, yet we almost always see faith as the way to see miracles instead of the way to enter into a deeper, more trusting relationship with a Good Dad (see Hebrews 11:6). It is from the midst of…
A Culture of Joy
God says, “I made you awesome and unique, to bring glory to My name!” and then we add in the fine print “And you will be miserable and unhappy and won’t have any fun at all”. (Pastor Les) Whenever joy is brought up really good Christians often go on a rant about how God doesn’t care about us being happy or about having fun. It is almost as if any conversation exploring joy must be shut down before someone smiles…
The Cross & Palm Sunday
“When was the last time you went from praising Jesus to wanting him dead in your life? It probably wasn’t too long ago” (Pastor Les) It is so easy to give a cursory reading of Palm Sunday scripture and place ourselves in the camp of the people celebrating Jesus instead of the camp of the religious who were planning to kill Jesus. The angry religious people and the crowds crying Hosanna have a lot more in common than you might…
For God So Loved the World He Gave a Savior
The entire imagery of a Savior can be summed up in an Old Testament scripture that says… “…for the young man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her.” (Deuteronomy 22:27) The shepherds and the wise men in the Christmas story had a much richer imagery of what a savior meant than we do. Join us as Pastor Les digs into the story and connects the Good…
For God So Loved the World He Gave a Seed
If God had planted a tree, lets say sent down a full grown Jesus, then Jesus would not have been fully man. He would not have been the excellent high priest that He is. Without knowing the pain of depression, doubt, and fear—without experiencing man’s anger and being tempted in all ways to manipulate and misuse His fellow humans, Jesus would not be as effective a high priest as He is today for you and me. A seed represents the…
Are You Table Salt or Agricultural Salt?
Most Christ-followers see themselves as salt to season the world and to keep it from decaying until Jesus returns. Pastor Les shares a message from Luke 14 and II Kings 2 that challenges us to think again and see ourselves as agricultural salt that is good for the soil and good for the manure pile. When we think of Salt as an Agricultural product and not as table salt we can see that it is not just to preserve for…