“A Collision-Free Life is a Glory-Free Life”

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A collision-free life is a glory-free life, according to Pastor Zach.

The episode opens with Pastor Zach welcoming the congregation and praying for spiritual readiness. He introduces the series 'Your Story, His Glory' and directs listeners to Mark chapter 5. Zach recounts how Jesus and his disciples crossed a stormy lake to reach the region of the Gerasenes, highlighting that Jesus risked danger for one demon-possessed man. He describes the man's condition: living among tombs, chained, cutting himself, and possessed by an impure spirit. Zach notes that the devil is aggressive and contrasts this with what he sees as a passive church. He challenges listeners to confront demonic oppression in their schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods. Zach declares that avoiding spiritual collisions leads to a 'glory-free life.' He explains that the demon-possessed man had a legion of demons, roughly 6,000, and asserts that the size of one's pain can become the size of God's glory. After Jesus frees the man, the local people plead with Jesus to leave because they are afraid and ashamed. Zach applies this to listeners who might send Jesus away due to shame or desire for control. The episode features a testimony from Joshua and Misty Arnold, who share their struggle with meth addiction, losing their children to DCS, incarceration, and eventual redemption through Faith Promise Church and God Behind Bars. They describe reconnecting through faith, regaining their children, and having a new daughter. Zach emphasizes that God uses broken people and asks listeners to identify 'their one' person to reach. He concludes with Jesus sending the healed man to tell his story in the Decapolis, making him a missionary. Zach encourages practical action: praying with strangers, sharing who they will invite to Easter, and stepping out in faith. He shares two stories: a waitress who used ChatGPT to find a church and was invited by a couple, and Tim, an ex-prisoner who found salvation and baptism through Faith Promise. The episode ends with an altar call for salvation, worship, and a call to boldness.

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A sermon about deliverance that turns fear, urgency, and worship into one hard push toward freedom.

Faith Promise Church Messages frames A Collision-Free Life is a Glory-Free Life as a plainspoken appeal for freedom, healing, and salvation. It moves with pulpit-first urgency, returning again and again to the question of whether a listener or someone they love needs help, then…

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If your soul needs a pressure wash, this sermon does not tiptoe around it.

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