"leslie herron" Tagged Sermons (Page 5)

How to Be Light Instead of Pointing Out Darkness

We force darkness to leave not by shouting at it or pointing it out but by turning on the light.  A simple principle but one that seems difficult to practice during our current presidential cycle.  Pastor Les shares a message about being light and uncovers a few reasons why us Jesus Followers often want to deny that we are the light of the world. Did you know that Jesus called His followers the light of the world? Did you know…

Politics 101: It is All About You

Pastor Les begins his Peace. Love. Politics. Series with a message titled “Politics 101:  It is All About You”. He shares from Luke 22:39-46 and how the words of Jesus, “Not my will but yours be done” is so often misused because it is seen as meaning something it does not.  Pastor Les asks the question, “Why was Jesus able to put God’s will before what he wanted?” Pastor Les uses the 5 Levels of Communication (friendship) to help answer…

Why General Faith Generally Fails

Pastor Les shares on healing and why we love speaking generally about faith but rarely get specific about it.  He uses Jairus and the Woman with the Issue of Blood as illustrations from Mark 4.  4 Questions are asked: (1) What specifically do you need to ask Jesus for?   (2) Where do you need work to breakthrough the barriers of wrong belief, bad doctrine and false ‘proof’?   (3)  Where are you afraid?   (4)  Where do you need…

Self-Serve Communion

Grab some bread or a wafer, some juice or some wine, and plug into something and Someone beyond you.  Les takes 5-minutes and lifts up the name of Jesus higher than our sins, sickness, selfishness and shame.  Join him and declare that there is no other name higher.