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Text - Nehemiah 9 Subject - Compassion Theme - God’s compassion Thesis - We can confess our sins before God because He is gracious and compassionate. Principle - Even though we are unfaithful, God is always faithful. Intro Many of us are familiar with the saying Winston Churchill made “Those who fail…

TEXT: GALATIANS 2:1-10 | THE CONTINUANCE OF THE GOSPEL INTRO ILLUSTRATION : Robert Hanssen was born in 1944 in Chicago, IL On January 12, 1976, Hanssen joined the FBI and was quickly moved to New York and into the counterintelligence department were he was assigned the task of compiling information of…

Last weekend we began this two-part series on What is the Church? The church is not a physical building, but a group of believers or a spiritual body, and Christ is the head of the body or church. My desire was to help us see that the Universal Church is made up of all believers and that the smaller…

If you have your Bible (and I hope you do), please turn with me to 1 Peter. It’s there toward the end of the Book. It’s short, but packed with wonderful truth for us here today. Peter writes this letter to a group of believers scattered across Asia Minor. As a reminder, let’s look at the opening verses…

How do you know if someone is a “good” person? How do you know whether you are good person? By what do we measure our goodness? How does our culture define “good”? By what standard does our culture have to measure “goodness”? We live in a world and in a culture that tells us that if we do good things,…

James has spent chapter one talking about trails and adversity. Living this life is difficult. James points us back to the Word of Truth we talked about last week. 19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce…

Intro: Good Morning. Grab your Bibles and turn with me to Psalm chapter 1. It is extremely important today church that we as believers understand the sufficiency of God’s Word. As we think about our worldview it should be a biblical worldview because God’s word is a sure, firm and a true foundation for…

15 Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you. 1 Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, 2 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.…

holy habits that help us love God and our neighbor, listen to the Holy Spirit, and become more like Jesus

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture: “Behold,…

To Judge or Not to Judge 1 Corinthians 4:1–13 (ESV) 1 This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful. 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human…

Tomorrow, we begin a new year, 2024. Do any of you think about what a number means. Numbers are important to God. Numbers are so important that He wrote a book about numbers called Numbers. It is the fourth book in the Bible. Today I want to give you a look into what the number 24 means. First, all of…

What is worship? Worship in both the Hebrew as well as the Greek literally means to be pronate…to be face down…or, to bow down... Worship is when we are on our face before God... I looked up the word worship in my software and read almost all of the results. The vast majority of the times that worship…

Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30 REVIEW This is our 8th message from Devarim elle-ha deverim = these are the words Picture of Journey Reason why the journeys -opportunities to learn The first generation that came out of Egypt was “thick headed” Devarim is like an executive meeting to evaluate where we have been,…

*** Image: White cloth The American Red Cross was gathering supplies, medicine, clothing, food, and the like, for the suffering people of Biafra. Inside one of the boxes that showed up at the collecting depot one day was a letter. It said, “we have recently been converted and because of our conversion…

A. Rapport for the time B. Reading of the text C. Review of the text Paul has spent some 18 months in Corinth last week and he was given a vision from the Lord. 9 And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, 10 for I am with you, and no…

The Historical Beliefs of Baptist Churches

We are the elect Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Peter’s intro is a little confusing the elect the Dispersion The audience is easy: Northern Turkey Date is probably just before Nero’s persecution according…

Belief Needs Becoming Over the last few weeks, we have been reminded of the love of God that sent our savior to be the sacrifice for our sins, we touched on the wonder of a resurrected ascended Lord, the question of waiting for the power of the spirit and the pouring out of God’s spirit upon his followers…

In your freedom, serve the Lord. It’s said that America is the land of the free, the home of the brave. What do you do with your freedom? The original 13 colonies were built up by the British monarchy, and when the colonies were taxed in order to pay foreign wars, what was the response? The seeds of…

Pericopal Series: Living in the Hope of Our Inheritance 1. Living Our Unchangeable Inheritance (1 Peter 1:3–9) 2. Living in Reverent Fear (1 Peter 1:17–21) 3. Living through Unjust Suffering (1 Peter 2:19–25) 4. Living as Holy Priests (1 Peter 2:4–10) 5. Living to Witness to the Hope (1 Peter 3:15–22)…

Opening Prayer: Children who are 4 yrs of age - 2nd grade may now make their way to Children’s Church please follow Mrs. Jane For the rest of us take your copy of God’s Holy Word and turn to Is.43.10 as we continue in our series The Heart of Worship. Today's sermon title is Glorifying God - The Essence…

Intro: One of the pitfalls for preachers is to pass over opportunities to preach sermons on the basics. The longer a man is in the pulpit, the less likely they are to cover the basics. The drive to give new and deeper truths is strong, and that can leave the basics beliefs with no preaching time. Today,…

I Each spring in our backyard, our camellia blooms. I have no green thumb and don’t ask me to name other plants in our yard but this one is special. If you can’t picture a camellia, ours is in the back left corner of your yard as you look out our sliding glass door. It stands out with it’s rich deep…

The Mighty Sword Could you imagine a soldier carefully putting on each piece of his armor, and walking out to battle without his sword? Talk about suicidal. He would be asking for it. David went to battle Goliath with out Saul's armor, but he did have his weapon. While armor is vital to protect you from…