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Commercials fascinate me in so many ways. They have somewhere between 15 and 60 seconds to tell you, a. There’s a problem. b. There’s a solution to your problem. c. This is the answer. It doesn’t take a prophet to recognize there is a lot of division in our country and our world. And it’s not just varying…

Introduction There are any number of sources clamoring for our attention and trying to encourage us to live our lives their way. Government AA Weight Watchers The Stoics Hedonists Employers ets…practically everyone and every organization has some thoughts about how we should live. Some of the ideas posited…

Series Intro We are in a tough time. There is so much going on. But there are things that are going on that aren’t making the news, or rather they aren’t directly making the news. How are we to make sense of all of this? We are to think through things. Ideas matter. Love the Lord your God with all your…

Good News As we continue our journey thru the Good News of Luke I want to say how much I appreciate your desire to stick it out. I appreciate your desire to hear the Word preached, the gospel preached. I do believe that we have a literacy problem. Biblical literacy is low. We let popular thought and…

Nehemiah and Ezra make sure that the Word of God is not only a priority to be read and known, but that the people also prioritize their response to God’s Word; how can we plan a life of faith that responds to the Word of God?

“Our lives and our ministry are grounded on the Scriptures.” Intro The Law is the standard for the rules of our society. If there is any dispute, there is somewhere to go to check! Made a mistake RE Vision/Values, all are important. Last week: Christ Focused! What does “ Word Based ” mean? In some sense…

Living in this fallen world, we all have encountered infelicity and injustice. This is the reality of life. The Buddhists call this world “a sea of suffering.” The Chinese call it “Kuhai 苦海”. In fact, the Chinese word for suffering 苦 resemble a human face, indicating life itself is a suffering and we are born to suffer. We all came into this world with a loud cry. I am not being negative here but being realistic because we cannot overcome suffering by denying it. The story in Mark 10:46-52 gives us insights on how to surf the sea of suffering. Let's take a look!

Introduction Good morning and welcome to FCC where we worship God is Spirit and in Truth, one verse at a time! Did you see the sun this morning, it was red because of the fires that we are surrounded by church. Let us be faithfully praying for the firefighters and all the workers who are working long…

We live in a very interesting time. We now take for granted having access to the world’s information at our fingertips through the internet. In seconds I can find an address, a phone number, a recipe for the next potluck, or how Kevlar works. The access we have to information is a tremendous blessing,…

Pastoral Prayer One of the things we regularly do is take time on Sunday mornings to hear from and pray for our missionaries we support as a church family. This morning we’re focusing on Gene and Anne Poppino with Cadence International. Gene come on up! Gene Talk - What have you been up to lately? How…

INTRODUCTION When Edmund Gravely died at the controls of his small plane while on the way to Statesboro, Georgia, from the Rocky Mount-Wilson Airport in North Carolina, his wife, Janice, kept the plane aloft for two hours. As the plane crossed the South Carolina/North Carolina border, she radioed for…

Intro Good morning, Gateway Chapel! Scripture Pray Intro Jim Gaffigan Easter spending—projected to break records at more than 17 billion dollars this year—is also significant, though not necessarily religiously motivated. Americans even spend more on candy for Easter than for Halloween. The average American…

Hey at the end of our service we’re going to do something we haven’t done in nearly 6 years, and that is vote to affirm a new elder of Gateway Chapel, and I’m just going to keep you on pins and needles as to who that is... Doug Eash. We’re going to have a vote to affirm Doug, we’ll go through the whole…

No Substitutes Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Why Asked God for anything .....when he is everything? Jesus commands them to…

Introduction: Last week, we discussed the first two points in this two-part mini series. We saw that: When Abiding in Christ…You Can Confidently Await His Return and When Abiding in Christ…You Can Cordially Be Part of His Family Today we will be getting into the final point that will be broken down in…

Knowing what it is we here at Hickory Corners Bible Church believe and how it is we operate is important. HCBC Basics is a condensed class to look at our statement of faith, and how it is we apply what we believe to our church life. This session will focus on Godly living in this present age.

Summary In Jude 14-16 , the author continues the theme of the judgment of his opponents, the false teachers. In this instance, Jude cites the book of Enoch (1 Enoch 1:9) specifically to make his case. In this episode, we discuss the implications of Jude’s citation of 1 Enoch and the Old Testament sources…

Introduction I usually preach from a different text outside of the book that I am currently preaching through when I preach on Resurrection Sunday. However, this year the Lord gave me a Scripture right in stride through our study of 1 Timothy. This Scripture fits right in for today’s remembrance and…

When I was young boy, I decided that I was going to have some fun at the expense of some morning doves that made a nest in our crab apple tree. A bird was sitting on the next so I jumped u[, grabbed a hold of the branch and bounced on it until the bird flew away. I had my fun so I walked it away. It…

INTRODUCTION: Can rules change us? Over the years many public policy scholars have suggested >>>>>the difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is mere knowledge. One prominent scholar suggested exactly that. That the reason the inner-city families have higher crime rates is because they…

Introduction Good morning and welcome to Dishman Baptist Church. Please open your Bibles with me to Mark 11 , Mark 11 . It is a blessing to us that you would join us this morning. It is also good to be back and I want to reiterate my thanks to all of you for allowing my family and I to take a short vacation.…