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Foundation Series Bible: God Sin Jesus Church/Holy Spirit Church as a Foundation of Christainity? Yes, Biblically define what the Church is. First it is not the building! The word “church” is a translation of the Greek word ekklesia , which is defined as “an assembly” or “called-out ones.” Not a building.…

Dear Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, After two faithful sayings - one on the gospel and the other on the desirabilty and noblity of having real leadership in Crhist’s church, Paul’s third faithful saying - was on what? Remmber recovering a church that was dying - and as he transititioned from…

Context of the culture in Ephesus, that this church lived in: 1. The City was a port city on the coast of the Aegean Sea. It was a world class city like NEW YORK OR LONDON today. 2. The city had one of the seven wonders of the known world at the time the temple of the Goddess Artemis. The daughter of…

Complement to congregation - sense they are the people of God… how act towards other, what try to embody… ie if lived in host family for a year - customs, values of that family - adopt you - way of hospitality! Those infleunce d by - show up in their lives, way of Christ in person - encouragement adn…

Dear Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, At this table, in this meal, those born again in Christ, saved and transformed, united to the head of the new humanity, the forever-people of the Messiah, they are instructed to do two things. Here together We REMEMBER and WE PROCLAIM. The Lord Jesus until…

Dear Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, What an incredible delight to see Christ’s work and that we are in Christ, then to see that Christian living isn’t about our effrot alone, but about you and I partiipacting WITH Christ - dying and risin gwith himin dialy life. Chapter 3 moves us from Christ…

short letter to individual -Beloved individual 4x, Gaius threat of influenced by abusive, selfish, pride, Diatrephes- reject stranger, apostolic teaching… Gaius caught between loyalties local leader, John/apostolic… less theological more practical = personalities and personal agendas!!! Purpose: Gaius…

Introduction : Are You Awake??? Most of us can probably remember being a child and our parents coming into the room saying son it’s time to get up and get dressed. I can remember as a young child dad coming and waking me up before the rooster’s crow turning the light on and saying…. Most children do…

Introduction In genesis, we see in th early pages of the scriptures a God who created a ordered, and good world where he places humanity to furlish and dwell with him forever. But huamnity was faced with a temptation and the tempataion at the surface is a temptation of desiring to gain wisdom and be…

Last week we saw that the bible speaks of 3 kinds of man: The Natural Man; The Carnal Man and the Spiritual Man. Having covered the first 2 last week lets conclude this series by looking briefly at the Spiritual Man and his characteristics. 1: A Spiritual man understands that Spiritual things require…

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In this closing section, Paul lists those who he applauds and gives thanks to- some are interesting in the “maybe” cases. Of the 24 people Paul refers to, six were woman. This fact goes against some of the claims that he dismissed women. Also of the 24 names, 13 occur in inscriptions having to do with…

Welcome/Prayer/ Intro Good Morning Church! How is everyone doing this morning? I am excited to wrap up our series on Advent called Are You Ready? We’ve talked about what it means to be prepared for Advent and Christ’s coming! This morning we are going to talk about what it means to proclaim Christ this…

Introduction : Are You Awake??? Most of us can probably remember being a child and our parents coming into the room saying son it’s time to get up and get dressed. I can remember as a young child dad coming and waking me up before the rooster’s crow turning the light on and saying…. Most children do…

Introduction Greeting Hi hybrid family its alway a honour to gather towards and grow and worship Jesus. If your new here were are simply who belive and love jesus christ thats who we are and were glad your come tonight. Opening story Last week we spoke on how to draw near to God, we made it simply confession…

OPENING SCENE 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2 The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which…

Dear Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of these last letters of Paul, the letters to an older more established but more deeply pprblematic ministry in Ephesus , Asia Minor, to Timothy that is more shaped by its church and doctirne problem. The letter to Crete and its newly appointed leader Titus,…

Dear Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, Are you equal to the task? If we had a scale with all that God has called you to do and be on this side. It is is important in life to have a clear view of the dialy duties and callings we have. But on the other sid eof the scale we were to put every little…

Timothy Whtimer in Shepherding model for gospel ministry, helpfully says need to know the sheep, before you can care for the sheep, before you feed the sheep, before you can protect the sheep. Last part of being an under-shepherd that I as a pastor especially felt ill equipped. Privately yes, read, think,…

Dear Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, I wonder if ever find yourself praying the exact same words at the dinner table or at be3dtime, or even in a churchm eeting - words flow off unthinkingly - and you wonder am I even blieving what I am praying, am I really asking? DOn’t get me wrong it is not…

Dear Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, One of the telltale signs that marks a cult from a true Christian church is that it usurp’s all all things to itself. This is true of a cult that seeks to control its members property, but also members conscience. Church of Christ in Korea a freind, everything…

Dear Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, We have seen that the church gets so easily side-tracked, was so in Epehsus -withthese false teachers - there big deal wasn’t Christ or the gospel and the resulting transformation - the godliness, but “super spiritual teaching ofireverent, silly myths, old…

Hey Y’all, how’s it going. So I’m about to do things out of sequence, so y’all get ready. If you have your bible, go ahead and open to Phil 2:19 , if you don’t have a bible throw a hand up and we will get one to you. Who needs a bible? Cool Cool. Phil. 2:19 we are going to start there. But before we…

OOOOOOO 1 Thessalonians 4:1–8 (NIV84) Living to Please God 4 Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the…