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When are they “elding”? You can tell when a plumber is plumbing… s/he probably got pipes in his hands, cutting and gluing or brazing or just pushing them together it seems these days. You can tell when a teacher is teaching… he (she) has a concept in their heads that they are using their skills to get…

The responsibility and Qualifications for the office of Pastor.

Introduction Next week we will resume our look into the book of Hebrews. This week, we have a unique week. Oftentimes, our sermons are for anyone who wants to come into the doors. Saved, unsaved, part of this church or not part of this church. We try to preach a simple and applicable message for everyone.…

NOTE: This is a manuscript, and not a transcript of this message. The actual presentation of the message differed from the manuscript through the leading of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it is possible, and even likely that there is material in this manuscript that was not included in the live presentation…

Who are elders and what do they do? In this message, Pastor Steve examines the leaders of the church.

Romans 3 In times past many of us here today would have been viewed with suspicion in many of our churches. Only the upright, respectable christian who hadn’t publically done anything remotely scandalous was welcome. Wild clothing, financial difficulties, divorce, children who had gone off the rails,…

Introduction Last week caring for widows; this week caring for elders The bulletin said 17–25. Your notes say 17–25. But I finally gave up and decided: we’re not getting through v. 25 today So this will be part 1 of caring for elders That’s what this whole passage is about: caring for elders. How should…

Reading 1 Thessalonians 5:12-24 Introduction We are coming to the end of James. We have two more weeks and we will cover the last section of James’ teaching. Throughout the book we have seen James focus on a couple themes. We have seen that he had been encouraging and correcting the Christian believers…

H.O.M.E. O. ur Relational Elements Discussion: ( Acts 15:1-32 ) And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said , Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they…

Introduction: A few weeks ago we discussed the qualifications for elders/pastors. These qualifications were very weighty and detailed. The Lord takes the purity of His church extremely seriously. Today we are going to see the need to protect the pastorate - or the office of pastor. If we want to have…

What do we know about the church? Understanding, being able to explain things within Christianity is important. We know what we believe, but why do we believe it? Can I explain my beliefs too others? That is what this series has been about. Why do I believe in God? Why do I believe in the Bible? Why…

The New Testament is made up of 5 types of literature: The Gospels (Matthew - John) History (Acts) Pauline Epistles (Romans - Philemon) General Epistles (Hebrews - Jude) Prophecy (Revelation) Titus is a Pauline epistle . More specifically it is a pastoral epistle . Author: Paul 1 Paul, a servant of God…

All authority proceeds from the Throne of God.

As we turn our attention to God’s Word today, you need to know that this sermon is a bit out of ordinary for what we usually do here. 95% of the time we are walking through portions of Scripture chapter by chapter and verse by verse, mining the goodness of God’s Word. Right now we are in a sermon series…

Ageing is mandatory; Maturity is optional! It has been well said that every single 24 hour period, every single one of us adds a day to our age. It’s mandatory. However... how much emotional and spiritual maturity is added to us in any given period is very much optional. Growth in emotional and spiritual…

Welcome... Introduction… Continuing our series on what is the church Every week I’m more compelled for the need to cover this topic, because the church as God designed it is largely under attack. I’ve said it each week so far and will continue to argue that... Understanding church (ecclesiology) is foundational…

Annoucements: Next Saturday - December 4th, the worship team will gather again to practice Holiday Dinner - December 12th after service Christmas Eve service - December 24th, 6pm 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting, January 10th Good morning, it is good to be here in this place with each of you. Last week…

Intro Hook? Dear brothers and sisters of Christ at Flooding Creek, I have a heartfelt and pointed message for you today. All preaching should be ideally heartfelt and directed personally at you as listeners, but today has a heightened focus because it concerns our future as a local church. God brings…

If I was to ask you - What in ME - reminds you of my dad.... What would you say? There might be a few things that everyone agrees on... And in SEEING those things... I think you’d all agree that those THINGS - in a sense - PROVE that my dad - is MY dad. They would be - parts of my DAD - in me. EACH of…

I began with reading this story this morning to remind us of a few things: God hears our cries! God provides people to help us carry the load! At this time the Israelites had been led out of captivity and Egypt and were wondering around in the wilderness. They were obviously hungry and started complaining.…

Introduction Illustration : Simon Says. It’s a fun game, but the object is to ultimately to confuse. When you have someone saying one thing and doing another, it confuses the people and they begin to fall and the game ends. TRANSITION : This is why this passage is important. This passage shows us that…

1 Timothy 5 Baby Dedication! Now you guys know that Baby Dedications are one of my favorite things I get to do as your pastor! This one is going to take me a few minutes, for a couple of reasons. The first is that I know that there are some people here this morning that have never seen anything like…

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…

Growing Growing, we are all growing, either growing closer in our walk, or growing more distant. This series has been about growing a closer walk with thee. Today is no different we are looking at growing closer as the church, with focus on local church vs. universal church. Growing in grace and true…

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 what God requires within His local church.