Ghosts of Christmas Past, Part 3: Labels

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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🗓️ 18 December 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

For many, the most wonderful time of the year isn't so wonderful. A painful past or our own insecurities can overshadow the joy we're supposed to be feeling. What if this year could look different? It’s time to let God heal the Ghosts of Christmas...

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0:00.0	Thanks for joining us here at Life Church. We are one church meeting in multiple locations
0:06.1	and reaching around the world with the help of church online. If you have any questions,
0:10.1	you'd like to learn more about us as a church, you can always check us out online,
0:14.1	simply by going to Life.Church. And we'd love you to stay connected throughout your week and
0:18.8	everywhere you go with the all new Life Church app available wherever you download your apps from.
0:24.0	You know in a season that's filled with great memories, for so many of us, we still find ourselves
0:29.5	feeling defeated by our own insecurities. And today our Senior Pastor Craig Groschel will help us
0:35.4	break the binds of the labels that hold us down in the final part of the Ghost of Christmas Past.
0:44.3	It's awesome to have all of you with us today at every single one of our Life Churches.
0:49.0	We love partnering with our Open Network Churches. Those of you on the other side of
0:53.5	computer screens all over the world at church online, you are a part of our family. If you're maybe
0:59.1	just now joining us and haven't been to church in a while, we're actually in part number three,
1:04.0	the final week of a three-part message series called the Ghosts of Christmas Past.
1:10.1	And what we're doing is we're talking about perhaps some things from the past that have followed us,
1:16.0	haunted us, and paralyzed us from living the life that God would really want us to live.
1:21.0	And today's message, I believe, is a special message that will speak to some of you in a way
1:26.0	that could really provide some internal healing when it comes to your identity.
1:31.2	We're going to talk about overcoming the labels that bind, overcoming the labels that we often
1:37.9	wrongly believe. I want to talk to you first of all about the power of words. How many of you
1:43.2	know that words can be very, very powerful? Words have the power to create, words have the power
1:49.2	to heal, words have the power to shape, words have the power to motivate. On the negative side,
1:55.6	though, words have the power to hurt, right? Words have the power to wound, words have the power
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