Are you Helping or Hurting

Well it's good to have Pastor Nick back! here are some quick points from his sermon:

• Are you HELPING or HURTING yourself?
1. Identify the struggle
2. Identify what fuels the fire
3. Pray for help
4. James 5:16 [CONFESS to one another]
• the first 3 are easy to do but when it comes to the fourth thing on the list we hesitate because we don't like to show others that our lives are messed up.
• We get too comfortable just confessing our problems to God and no one else.
• Confess your sins/struggles with honest people who are not afraid to confront.
• We can't be "sissy-fied" christians when it comes to confrontation, Mark 9:47 tells us how to get rid of sin, it wasn't easy and it wasn't pretty.
• Our final time was left confessing our struggles in our small group, which i found to be very helpful and left feeling with a sense of freedom.

so if there is anyone out there tonight who may feel guilty, ashamed, or out of Gods reach remember what Romans 8:1 says, "Therefore, there is now NO condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus"