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Time on earth for Jesus is running short. As He finishes this very personal time with the disciples, they experience the last few moments of tranquility. This would soon give way to anguish in Gethsemane, injustice during prosecution, cruel ridicule, and brutal scourging, followed by suffering and death…

JRR Tolkien penned the world renowned Lord of the Rings. In his imagination, he created fabulous lands and creatures within with their own ethic, language, and purpose. One kingdom of creatures was the dwarfs. These were not the Snow White, dumpy, goofy creatures from Disney. These were the short, but…

1 Corinthians 11:23-26 THE MESSAGE IN THE MEAL Intro : For 2,000 years, the church of Jesus has been celebrating the Lord’s Supper service. In some churches, it is an elaborate and ornate affair that dominates the entire service. In other churches, it is observed at the end of a worship service. Some…

We begin our study of John's gospel with a beautiful overview of who Jesus is and how we should respond to him.

Ephesians 3:1–13 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand…

Intro: Madam Twinkle Toes You see, in this story of Madam Twinkletoes, you can understand the burden and the agony that she was going through and experiencing. It was happening right before her very eyes. But what a about Jesus? What kind of agony must a man be going through to begin sweating blood?…

Context: Paul and Barnabas have set out on their missionary journey. After making a few stops they arrive at Antioch of Pisidia. This is a different Antioch from the Antioch which was the early Christian church hub for international missions. This was a small town known on the Anthius River founded by…

Our Old Testament lesson is taken from Deuteronomy 14:3-20 : “You shall not eat any abomination. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. Every animal that parts the hoof and has…

In that great and terrible day, there will be those white with shock when they find that they have depended upon a mental assent to Christianity instead of upon the miracle of the new birth! 7 A. W. Tozer The Purpose of God, from the beginning, has always been to perfect a group of people who will be…

Introduction : Years ago, I took a class in seminary entitled, Biblical Counseling with Dr Tim Seal. I took it because during my ministry as a Student Pastor at Ellendale Baptist, I felt ill-equipped with the biblical counseling cases that I faced among teens and their parents. I heard from fellow student…

Introduction What we have been doing Week 5 of this series. Looking at what it means to “Pray and Go” Been working through gospel of John. Week 1 - What’s Your Story Week 2 - Eat and Live Week 3 - Jesus is the resurrection and Life Week 4 - Abide This week - The Best News in the World The Resurrection…

Over the last few weeks, people have talked about the end times more than in the weeks prior. I have preached about the end in the last few years more than I have in the years prior. I believe that Christ is returning soon. It is so important that we get ready. In our text today, Jesus tells the church…

5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Light plays an important role in our world.... Have you ever been to a Broadway play? Or, A play of any kind… you know… highschool… college… whatever....? One pastor relates the time she had the privilege of attending a broadway…

Intro: Humanism Manifesto: The chief end of man is man! Secular Humanist Popular secular humanists: Karl Marx, John Dewey, BF Skinner Humanist Manifesto written in 1933 summarizes the tenets of belief of humanist. Notice with me how dominant these principles are in our culture. Man is self-existing (deny…

Introduction Tonight we’re going to examine the Golden Candlestick - or Lamp stand as it’s otherwise known. We are examining the Tabernacle in the Wilderness Part of the reason for this series is to connect the OT to the NT. They are not competitive narrations concerning the History of man and God’s…

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Walking in the Light 1 John 1: 5-10 In our opening passage, John focused on the characteristic of Christ as the Living Word , God revealed to humanity in human form. Christ came to earth as the embodiment of the eternal God. Now he focuses on Christ as the Light of the world. Each of these characteristics…

Great expectations (Great expectations picture here) Great expectations is more than a book, or a movie made from the book. Do you ever have expectations of yourself or others? What does the word expectation mean? Defined (N) It is a strong belief that something will happened or be the case in the future.…

Rooted in the Promises Romans 15:8-13 Introduction I read a story of two mountain villages. One of these villages got its water from a mountain spring. In the summer months when the weather was dry, that spring would dwindle down until there was barely a trickle of water coming into that little village.…

Merry Christmas!!!! Over these last few weeks… as we’ve journeyed together through Advent… We’ve talked about a lot… We’ve looked at the Christmas story… We’ve seen it’s characters… We’ve heard from them… from their stories… from their struggles… Hopefully … we’ve learned something! The Christmas story…

Children’s Message How long has this been around? So it hasn’t been around forever? How do you know? Daddy’s and Mommies will be learning about how God is self-sufficient. Do you know what that means? If God is self-sufficient, all things we have in this world have come to us from God. This means we…

Christ is for the World: This is a message of hope. And right now, after such a tiring week as we have had politically and nationally, it is time for a reminder of the hope that God gives to us because, until Christ returns, >>We live in,,, A World That is Broken Our world is broken because at the very…

(S1)— Rivers to wilderness—40 days—Barren land of desolation, and hardship—A journey Jesus willingly took LENT—A self-imposed wilderness...Like Jesus, a place we willingly enter. What we can learn from Jesus wilderness experience, about ourselves, our relationaship with God? (S2)— Trouble in River City…

Introduce the Disciples Cross diagram: It comes from the MasterLife Study. It is a Bible study that helps you experience life in Christ through practicing six identified biblical disciplines: spending time with the Master, living in the Word, praying in faith, fellow-shipping with believers, witnessing…