Capital Community Church Sermon Archive Fixer Upper - Part 4 - Pastor Raymond Woodward
Oct 29, 2020
A sermon focused on restoring family relationships through forgiveness and covenantal love. It contrasts covenants with contracts and warns against coveting, social media-driven discontent, and money's corrupting pull. Practical guidance covers parental authority, media boundaries, spiritual covering, prayerful resistance to evil, and inviting Jesus into the home.
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Windows Reveal Coveting's Root
- Windows represent desires and what we constantly look at; unchecked desire becomes coveting.
- He links covetousness to the fall, calling it a 'seed sin' that leads to theft, adultery, murder and exclusion from God's kingdom.
Choose Contentment Over Coveting
- Pursue contentment as the antidote to coveting.
- Woodward cites 1 Timothy and urges enjoying what you have and resisting social media-driven comparisons that fuel overspending and overwork.
Admire Without Having To Acquire
- Learn to admire without acquiring to avoid destructive comparison.
- Woodward gives concrete examples: admire a neighbor's renovation or car without sinking into debt to copy them.