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Good Morning. We have gathered together to witness today to the fact that Jesus has risen from the Grave. This is the moment that we get to celebrate that Jesus is Lord and we celebrate our salvation through him. WE are to be a witness to this. Have you ever had to be a witness to an accident, or a crime.…

Take your copy of God’s word this morning and turn in your Bibles to John 15:8 : Today’s message is entitled “Witness to the World” We have been looking closely at the Disciples Cross. I hope you’re seeing this enough that you’re starting to memorize it. (Show Disciple’s Cross Graphic) This is the Disciple’s…

Introduction Today we will begin a new series. This series will focus primarily upon what Jesus both did and experienced in the last few days of His earthly ministry. I was going to title this series ‘The Last Days of Jesus’, meaning of course the last time period consisting of just before the Judgment…

They handed Him over Arrested with no resistance Beaten beyond recognition Made no defence Was handed over 16 So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified. (expand on some of what He endured already) The Passion of the Christ passage 17 They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own…

Created For More Last week we looked at Jesus feeding of the 5000. Crowds gathered to hear the Gospel of the Kingdom Proclaimed and Demonstrated. The crowd was gathered because the Gospel of the Kingdom touched them to the very core of their human longing. We were created for Kingdom of Heaven living.…

The Cross Life Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole…

The Cross Life Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole…

Introduction Happy Easter! Welcome! Easter is the day that we remember the resurrection of Jesus. We will certainly do that today, but we are going to look at a passage from the Bible that I have never used on Easter. I hope it makes sense why we are doing this, so hang around until the end and hopefully…

Just after the Seder, Jesus and his disciples depart to the garden of Gethsemane to pray. All but one.... After spending time in prayer, Jesus was betrayed by one of his closest friends and arrested. The rest of his friends scatter and deny him. He was then brought before Caiaphas, Herod, and Pilate…

Words have meaning. Everything we say means something. However, the original meaning of a word, or what someone thinks a word means, doesn’t always equal how we mean to use the word. This is what makes communication hard. Even harder in cross-cultural/cross generational communication. Words have power.…

Paradox defined: A statement that seems to contradict itself. The call to discipleship and the cost of discipleship SEEM a hard, heavy weight to bear, but the truth is discipleship is the one way to eternal life AND to find the highest meaning in this life. That Luke 9:23-25 “ Then He said to them all,…

From the Cradle 21 And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus , for He will save His people from their sins.” Jesus - means “Savior” or “Jehovah is Salvation” 14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His…

Scripture weaves together: Prophecy - Isaiah, Psalms Narrative - John Didactic (teaching/application) - Hebrews Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted. As many were astonished at you— his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form…

Mark 15:15-25 Intro : The scene has been set. All the actors are in their places. Everyone knows their lines even though they have never rehearsed their parts. The greatest act in human history is about to be played out. These verses talk about the aftermath of our Lord’s trial before the Jews and then…

Conversations on Holiness I read an interesting book a few years ago written by a Christian comedian named Keith Davenport, titled, Conversations on Holiness . His main point was that conversations among believers about holiness have just … sort of … stopped happening. Think about it… 16 for it is written,…

Pastor Michael Mehring I want to take us on a journey — a journey of the last few days of Jesus life— we will be Going… —from the garden — through the trial — to the cross — engaged in the battle of the ages — and finishing with the victory!! Let’s begin from the garden Jesus was facing Substitution…

Opening Prayer Symbol of Lent - Crown of Thorns Music ministry 195 Nothing But The Blood (v3) 419 Abide With Me (1,2,3,4) 349 Trust and Obey (1,2,5) Holy Forever Word of God - John 15:1-11 1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 8, Session 1 © 2018 LifeWay Christian Resources, Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A. April, 2022. Summary and Goal Forty years earlier, the Israelites had failed to trust God and refused to…

The Sinner vs. Eternal Life Do you believe God? 1 JOHN 5:6–12 Main Idea: Christians can be certain that God has given us eternal life through His Son. Bertrand Russell lived from 1872–1970. He was a well-known atheistic philosopher who authored more than 100 books, wrote a three-volume autobiography,…

Introduction I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. There is a great hymn by Thomas Shepherd, written in the late 1600s. 501 in the book,…

The First Fruit Galatians 5:22–23 (ESV) But the fruit of the Spirit is love , joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes…

Welcome Prayer Introduction: Last week we looked at Acts 10:1-35 and saw how God opened Peter’s thinking to understand that the Gospel wasn’t just for the Jews, and, we applied it to ask ourselves who, in our lives, do we treat like Peter and the early Church treated the Gentiles. Additionally, we pondered…

Patience How’s your patience today? When this pandemic quarantine started, it was as novel as the coronavirus itself. But it’s worn out its welcome for me. I’m ready to get back to normal. I suspect you have some level of that feeling as well. Many of you chose the person or people you are quarantining…

1 Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he…

John 12:20-26 We are continuing on our eight week journey through the Gospel of John, looking at the Verily, Verily statements of Jesus. As we look at the theme of The Truth will make you free throughout this year, I thought it fitting to start with this series. The word translated Verily, again, is…