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Biblical Doctrine: A Systematic Summary of Bible Truth (A Foretaste of Heaven) In concluding a discussion on the church, it is fitting to remember that the church provides believers with a foretaste of heaven. Though imperfect, the church represents the one place where the activities of heaven are reflected…

Balancing Love and Truth John was committed to the truth, there is no doubt about that. From the beginning we see him as a spiritually aware man who sought to know and follow the truth. When we first encounter John, both he and Andrew are disciples of John the Baptist. But like Andrew, John without hesitation…

Intro - What a week! All this snow has really thrown off so many things this week and has disrupted so much. But during this week my kids heard some of their favorite words… SNOW DAY! They were pumped this week to hear no School after just having 2 full weeks off of school. They just looked forward to…

44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. 45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, 46 who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold…

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.…

Countdown Video Thank you for joining Faith Vision Christian Ministries Faith Vision i s a Christian church, based on the Word of God. We are a training ground for all things Jesus Christ. loving God , Loving People living by faith Thank you for joining us today , Please set everything aside as we come…

Good afternoon everyone, it's great to see all of you today. And in particular I want to wish all of our mothers that are either here or watching online a Happy Mothers Day. Sorry, I do not have a special mothers day message today. I chose to continue in our series on 1 John. And so as we continue our…

24 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. What was heard from the beginning? 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked…

Welcome to Heartland Christian Church. If this is your first time here we’re happy to have you. Let’s get started. Please Stand Somebody give the Lord thanks for something He is or does. Before we get started let’s read from Psalm 23 A Psalm of David. 1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He…

1 John 2:15–19 (ESV) — 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And the…

Introduction 2024 Annual Theme Spiritually Mature in Truth "In Spirit and Truth, we mature; in His Word, we stand secure!" Our message today is Love and Forgiveness - which I’ve divided into two parts. We’ll look at Love first and next week Forgiveness Full understanding of Love, there are 4 kinds in…

Last week we read the first half of 1 John 2 , and talked about knowing God and abiding in Him. The overall theme of the book is knowing who God is, believing in His Son Jesus Christ, and having assurance of eternal life. 15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world,…

Welcome to Heartland Christian Church. if this is your first time here we are happy to have you. Let’s get started. Please Stand. Somebody give him thanks for something He is or does. Today we’ll be reading Psalm 51 . Psalm 51 says: To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came…

The Path to Spiritual Victory # 5 1 John 2: 12-17 The love and concern John has for the church is evident as we continue to read this epistle. John loves them so much he now is going to instruct them on the importance of living a life of Spiritual victory. He began by exalting Christ, reminding the believer…

This is our 3rd week in the teaching portion of our EMPTY acronym, our flyover of the New Testament. It’s a 40,000 foot flyover, but its giving us a sense of the overarching message of redemption and seeing the connections of the New Testament back to the Old, and the flow of the story from Genesis on.…

Introduction Lets start with a passage out of the Johns 1st Letter 1 John 2:18 (NASB95) 18 Children, it is the last hour; ... Pastor Ben spoke last week about john and the early church bringing to light . Words like syncretism Gnosticism and Political Correctness We are not going to veer off from Bens…

Many of you remember the old TV program Mission: Impossible, and some of you have become acquainted with it through the more recent movie versions starring Tom Cruise. Basically, the television program revolved around an agent named Jim Phelps, receiving dangerous government assignments. The tagline…

Many of you remember the old TV program Mission: Impossible, and some of you have become acquainted with it through the more recent movie versions starring Tom Cruise. Basically, the television program revolved around an agent, originally by the name Jim Phelps, receiving dangerous government assignments.…

Subject: Overcoming the Fear of Rejection We’re going to look at the one that’s in your mind that causes you to make yourself crazy, which is fearing the disapproval of other people, fearing the rejection of other people, fearing too much what other people think about your life. When you do that, when…

Nitzavim Introduction Torah Portion This Torah Portion goes from Deuteronomy 29:10-30:20 In our previous Torah portion we talked about Re’eh (beholding: a blessing, and a curse) We talked about having two choices related to obedience / disobedience = blessing / cursing Obedience to blessing We talked…

Psalm 103:1-5 Scripture Reading vv.1-12 When I think of Revival – I think of the following verse: Psalm 103:5b …so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. A renewal is mentioned here, a revitalizing, a revival. A starting over – a revamping and restoring to a former self or place. The eagle becomes…

1 Joh 2:15-17 In this study of Fixing Church Culture, I want to look at some the cultural buzz words that are not easily defined because they are ever changing in their meaning. I also want to be able to look at our response to some the key issues in society - how we should view some things and how we…

Culture is an interesting word. Have you ever looked it up - the definition of it: The application of labor or other means to improve good qualities in, or growth; as the culture of the mind; the culture of virtue. What are some of the things that we as a church are working towards - what are some of…

Introduction This Torah Portion goes from Numbers 22:2-25:9 Last Torah portion we spoke of the Red heifer being all about sanctification, and purification After the event of the red heifer we spoke about last Torah portion, the children of Israel had taken some territory, coming to Kadesh ( a sacred…

Introduction This Torah Portion goes from Numbers 13:1-15:41 So far, we have discussed how God longed to show Himself to Israel. If they had come up to mount Sinai the complete restoration back to God would have been accomplished as the Lord would have tabernacled in them. They could not do it. We have…