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“Stand with…your feet sandaled with readiness for the gospel of peace.” Opening illustration: In 2013, I began to develop a very bad case of indigestion. So, for 24 hours, I treated it with Tums, Pepto Bismol, Rolaids, and lots of water. Severe pain, yet I kept treating the indigestion, until at a church…

Intro: Last week we started this discussion about Christians and Government. We saw that... As God’s Special People, Our Submission to Government… Is commanded Requires proper motivation Will not be easy It is God’s Will It is an act of stewardship… Let’s look at our main passage, once again… 1 Peter…

Intro – In 1857 the U.S. Supreme Court made a decision that today looks absolutely ridiculous . 7 of 9 Justices decided that a black slave named Dred Scott was nothing more than the property of his owner – and thus he had no rights as a citizen and no protection under the law of the United States or…

Peace is more than simply the absence of conflict; it is the active presence of God which results in the flourishing of his creation.

Grace to you and peace, from God our Father, and from our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Immediately after the Civil War, the government appointed administrators to assist in reconstruction of the South. As these men toured their areas of responsibility, one striking and surprising fact made…

FREEDOM Today is Juneteenth, a date that commemorates the events of June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Tex., to inform enslaved African Americans in the furthest reaches of the Union that the Civil War had ended and that they were free. ...Despite the surrender of the Confederacy…

(Remember — God Wants His People to Turn His Way!) GOAL: Continually submit yourselves to God’s authority, which includes what He instituted. Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and from our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Our text this morning is first from verse 21 in the Gospel…

I read about 3 widows who lived together. One sister got up from the couch in the den to go to bed one evening, and half-way up the stairs she stopped and asked "was I going up or was I coming down"? One sister replied with a hint of aggravation, "You were going up to bed." A second sister headed into…

Prince of Peace

Introduction ? Passage Outline 1. A weakened king (19:1-8) Read 2 Samuel 19:1-8 2 Samuel 19:1–8 (ESV) 1 It was told Joab, “Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.” 2 So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people, for the people heard that day, “The king is grieving…

Isaiah 17-19 Good evening church ,open your Bibles with me to Isaiah chapter 17. As you do, just a reminder that the prophet Isaiah in this section is in the middle of prophesying about area nations, much of his prophecy has both a near and a far fulfillment, to them, some being yet future. Also it is…

Good afternoon. I hope that everyone has had a wonderful and blessed weekend so far. It's truly a blessing to gather with you once again as we continue our journey along "The Path of Healing: Exploring the Beatitudes." In this series, we've been uncovering the profound ways in which the Beatitudes, found…

Every Fourth of July, many American Christians are troubled by the question, “Was the American Revolution justified and lawful in God’s eyes?” On the surface, Romans 13:1-2 seems to prohibit any rebellion against civil authority. It reads: Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For…

INTRODUCTION . “What is Thanksgiving?” . 1863 - Civil War - President Abraham Lincoln Originally on the last Thursday of the month. A few times there was a 5th Thursday. 1941 - Business owners complained to Franklin D. Rosevelt. it would hurt retailers because less time for Christmas shopping. Congress…

Matthew 12:22-50 20 years ago terrorists attacked the United States. This was the first foreign attack on American soil since the War of 1812 (Hawaii was not a state in 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked). Unlike European, African,Asian, and South American countries who have suffered innumerable war…

Intro; We now come to the meat of the message that Jesus is preaching. He has served appetizers and drink with the Beatitudes/Similitudes, and has set the table for the main course with His fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets. Now we are fixing to dig into a feast! Usually at a feast [ buffet ],…

The Pagan World What has been—it is what will be; what has been done—it is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun. Before Our Lord Jesus Christ preached the Good News of the Gospel among men, the world was submerged in a prolonged and terrible night, in which moral licentiousness, egoism,…

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…

17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments,…

Revelation 2:12-17

Mark 15:21 (NKJV) Then they compelled a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus, as he was coming out of the country and passing by , to bear His cross. As we look into the scripture this morning I want to point out a very important fact that is mentioned. Simon was just a man…

We are going to spend sme time in Matthew 24 today as we look at the signs of the times. People are always wanting to know the future… when Jesus is coming back. People have written books about the 2nd coming and even predicted a date, which has come and gone… we’re still here. No one knows when Jesus…

I don’t know if you noticed, but the war in Ukraine has taken over the news. So much so that they now have to run stories to explain that not everything else in the news relates to the war in Ukraine, like the high gas prices. I DO NOT want to minimize this horror. All I want to say is that with all…

O Give Thank Unto the Lord Turn to and read Psalm 136:1-3 . Pray. There are some things that I take for granted. One of those is the knowledge of the true history of the United States of America. Having grown up attending a Christian school, I very early learned that history is “the written record of…

8 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. 10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good…