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Drifting As we look at our topic tonight may we consider this question, am I diligently pursuing God or am I drifting along? (Insert Picture- Drifting here) Story found Gospel Guide by Billy Norris: “Two men were fishing above a low dam on a river near their hometown. As they were concentrating on catching…

Pastor Brenden speaks on the art of avoiding spiritual drift.

It is easy to drift away from Jesus and not even realize that has happened. In this message we learn some steps we can take to keep that from happening.

Riding Line In the 1800’s and early 1900’s men on ranches would spend a lot of time riding line. What they did doing this was to go out every day and ride the boundary line of the ranch. While doing this they were looking for cattle that either drifted onto their side and push them off, and look for…

Intro: Have you stopped to notice lately that everyone is trying to get our attention? And there are all sorts of ways people are trying to do this. There is a message people want us to hear. We see this through the billboards in our city to the commercials on T.V. to social media, political campaign…

Introduction If you’ve ever been on a boat in a lake, you may have witnessed drifting. I can remember going out on a lake to fish and we stop in a certain place. I get work on casting and reeling and trying to catch something. I’m just working on my task and eventually when I look up, things look different.…

Intro Why do so many Christians become baristas? its cause We identify with Moses… and Hebrews. Continuing our study of the book of Hebrews, jumping in to chapter 2 and focusing on the first 4 verses. As we go through this book, we won’t study everything. We won’t be able to dig deeply into every possible…

We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which…

Scene 1/ Tide & wind can take you a long way from where you want to be, just as life can take you a long way from where you intended 2:1 A number of years ago on our holiday we decided to make use of the kayaks where we were staying and to paddle from Golden Beach to the northern tip of Bribie Island.…

Hebrews 2 Good morning Church! Open you Bibles with me to Hebrews chapter 2. Quick reminder of where we have been in this study so far, and we won’t do that every week, but this week we must as if you take a glance at chapter two, verse one, it begins with the word Therefore... AND every bible student…

Are You Listening? Oxford languages define listening as ‘giving one’s attention to a sound’, while the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries both define listening as ‘to give attention to someone or something in order to hear him, her ’. I find this distinction really interesting and important. Listening…

Scripture Reading Genesis 13:5-13 I there is an example in the Old Testament of a wordly a Christian - it would be a Lot. When Lot chose the land to the East when Abraham went the opposite direction, no one could blame him. Genesis 13:10 says the land he chose looked like the Garden of Eden itself. The…

“Be Reconciled to God” Root of Fruit Sin addressed “Unbelief, Pride, Selfishness” Gathering Paint voting, Communication for October Hand Out-Catechism - Reading Plan Call to Worship 5 The Lord Jesus, by his perfect obedience and sacrifice of himself, which he through the eternal Spirit once offered up…

Introduce new section from Rev 1:19 rev 1:19 Johns Revelation Dispensations Church age Close up Peaks of Prophecy 1st and second comings not seen as distinct events 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: And the government shall be upon his shoulder: And his name shall be called Wonderful,…

Hebrews 2:1-3 Hebrews 6:4-6 Hebrews 10:26-31 Five times in the book of Hebrews, the writer warns his readers about the dangers of abandoning the Christian faith. Three of these passages are often used by those who want to prove that you can lose your salvation. We can’t possibly study in depth the book…

1 Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. 2 For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, 3 how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared…

Welcome Good morning everyone and to anyone joining us online good morning as well! Today we are starting a new sermon series called “How To...” All of us have seen how to guides before. There are helpful how to guides that come in the form of a book, and even now you can use youtube as a how to guide.…

46 While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him. 48 But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” 49 And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!…

(S1) — Two things church people don’t like to hear…Money/Sharing our faith ( Evangelism) I DON’T WANNA HEAR IT Landscaper/Evangelist Can we just not talk about it? Are we going to be the church of believers, as Jesus intend (Acts) “Evangelism, good or bad, is the reproductive system of Christianity.”…

Text - Nehemiah 13 Subject - Drift Theme - Spiritual Drift Thesis - Principle - As Christians today, we must be aware to guard ourselves from spiritual drift. As we turn to our text this morning, we see an all to familiar yet still sad pattern of events. The cyclical pattern of returning to faithfulness…

1 Timothy 4 Good morning church! Open your Bibles with me to 1 Timothy 4 and we will discover together what the Lord has for us. Verse 1 begins, 1 Tim 4:1-4 1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,…

Text: Joshua 4 Series: Encouraged: Taking God at His Word Title: Remembering the Faithfulness of God Introduction There is nothing like the smell of breakfast cooking. Walk into a house. Smell bacon. Smell sausage. Maybe the sweet aroma of pancake syrup. Oh my goodness. There is nothing like it. The…

A city built on “shaky” ground. Earthquakes and volcanoes. The external pressure from the Jews. This is the main issue for this church. The jews were not only opposing them but making life very difficult. Remember the early church did not initially view itself as separate from the jewish faith but its…

Introduction 5 part series from the Book of Hebrews. - “The Five Warnings of Hebrews” Hebrews was written as call “ultimate certainty and ultimate commitment” - William Lane WBC 47A p. xii. We live in an insecure, anxiety-provoking society. We are in need of a fresh breath of new life. That makes us…