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You ever feel lonely even in a crowded room?
The loneliness epidemic is real, and the church is the real answer.
But real community requires real surrender.
Let down your walls, let the Holy Spirit in, and be a part of a church family that actually sees you.

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The problem with the "pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps" mentality is that it works until it doesn't.

Eventually, every stage of life asks more of you than you have to give. Optimism runs dry.

We need to swap "I think I can" for a new refrain: "I know He will."

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It's exhausting to try to hold everything together by yourself.
You know the feeling –– the white-knuckling, the hum of the grind, and the "I think I can, I think I can" mentality.
Most of use don't even notice we're doing it.
It's just another Tuesday.
It's just life. 👇

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[Christ Church Birmingham @cc_bham]

It's exhausting to try to hold everything together by yourself.
You know the feeling –– the white-knuckling, the hum of the grind, and the "I think I can, I think I can" mentality.
Most of use don't even notice we're doing it.
It's just another Tuesday.
It's just life. 👇

[Christ Church Birmingham @cc_bham]

But what would it look like to step out of that? To stop running on the fumes of your own willpower? What if there's a better way?

Last Sunday's sermon pressed into that question, highlighting three signs of a Spirit-empowered life.

Continue reading (linked below):

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The answer to exhaustion isn't more effort. It's not trying harder to be disciplined. It's admitting you need help.

Effort runs out. But God's Spirit gives sustaining grace.

Stop striving. Start receiving.

[Christ Church Birmingham @cc_bham]

The problem with the "pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps" mentality is that it works until it doesn't.

Eventually, every stage of life asks more of you than you have to give. Optimism runs dry.

We need to swap "I think I can" for a new refrain: "I know He will."

[Christ Church Birmingham @cc_bham]

God never expects what He does not empower.

He doesn't ask you to parent, work, or love sacrificially and then say, "Good luck figuring it out."

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"Because while the question "Is Christianity true?" is crucial, there is an even more fundamental question: Can Jesus be trusted? Pilate had to choose. And so do we."

Continue reading: https://t.co/8T4fXR4ZgY

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Psalm series: https://t.co/cApcv3q0Wd

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Check out our July sermon series on the book of Psalms! (Link below)

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Do you have the mark of the beast? #revelation

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@GlobalMChurch Excited for what the GMC is doing around the world!

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How to change the world. #Revelation

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Revelation's calls us to turn from self-destructive rebellion and run back towards the abundant life and radical grace offered by God.
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Ultimately, Revelation's message of judgment reveals a God eager to draw lost souls back to Himself.

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Many struggle to see how Revelation's terrifying judgment aligns with a loving God.⁣
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At first glance, it feels like arbitrary cruelty, but they actually serve a purpose that we can only expect from a God who is loving and just.⁣
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God's judgment is a response to stubborn, hardened human rebellion that destroys His good creation.

And its sole aim is to call for our repentance.

God allows the devastating consequences of our sin to reveal its futility.⁣

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‘Hope’ in Scripture doesn’t refer to the time we die and go to heaven. Rather, ‘hope’ in the Bible points to the future resurrection of all believers.

Our Christian hope is defined by what Christ has accomplished, and death, the final enemy, will one day be defeated.

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There is one thing that we don't often think of as crucial to Christian faith, but is actually indispensably fundamental to our hope in Christ and our salvation:

The physical resurrection of the dead in Christ when he returns in final victory.

Paul argues in 1 Cor. 15:

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In other words, without the resurrection of the believer's body, Christianity is meaningless.

But because we do believe that Christ was raised from the dead, we believe in our own bodily resurrection. Death came through Adam, but life comes through Jesus.