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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,…

The Antidote for All Sermon Theme : We have the antidote in the One lifted up before our eyes. Text: Numbers 21:4-9 Other Lessons : Psalm 32 ; Ephesians 2:4-10 ; John 3:14-21 Through these Sunday of Lent, Scripture has shown us that being a sinner in a sinful world has its challenges: we face temptations,…

I. The Means of our service. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.…

We come now to the third session in our Hickory Corners Bible Church Basics class, giving a quick overview of what we believe, and how we operate based on what we believe. In this third session, we will look at the redemption solely available in Christ Jesus, the only escape from the righteous judgement…

Philippians 3:12-14 Philippians 3:12–21 “Not that I have already attained this—that is, I have not already been perfected—but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting…

INTRODUCTION New theme for December “Keep Your Eyes on Jesus” and the final topic for our 2023 theme of Good Fight, Right Race, and Steadfast Faith. Today’s sermon is “ Fix Your Gaze on Jesus in a Distracted World.” Central Theme For greater peace and contentment in a world filled with distractions we…

James 2:1-14 Good morning Church! Hey before we get started, I want to introduce you to a friend of mine, Ronny Larson. I’ve known Ronny or known of Ronny for over a dozen years. I’ve mostly been able to observe from a distance and what validates Ronny as a true Son of God is that there is observable…

Words have power. We hold these truths.... We the People.... Fourscore and 7 years ago... We have nothing to fear... I have a dream... Movie & TV references All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, so that the man of…

7 This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. 8 And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will…

Introduction Our new them for September is “What Ever You Do, Work Heartily” Corresponds with our 2023 theme of Right Race, Good Fight, Steadfast Faith Our Topic for today’s message is “Finding Purpose in Our Work” Some Common Attitudes Towards Work Work from a Biblical Perspective Living Out Purposeful…

Intro: My testimony How could the Spirit of God be living in me while I so blatantly live contrary to His unlimited power and influence? If the Holy Spirit indwells all believers, then his influence over them must be visible and apparent? In my life it was lacking. It was absent because my confession…

God does not Change! This weeks sermon is the other side of the coin from last weeks sermon. Both sermons begin with the idea expressed in verse 1. 1 “Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to…

Scars to You’re Beautiful Today we are finishing up this series. We’ve listened to some interesting songs and looked at them through the lens of God’s truth. Just to quickly recap this series, we started off with “Million Reasons.” When life wears us down and beats us up, the enemy will give us a million…

A. Rapport for the time There is not doubt that Mom’s have a huge influence over our lives as children and adults. They have many messages of wisdom they share with us. Children say things like—My elbow hurts when I move it like this, and mom’s respond with: don’t move it like that son A young man heading…

11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus…

Kids Takeaway of the day: Boundaries are Good! God - We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously…

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” This is often called Holy Week. Not my favorite term. During this time many of you have spent time considering what happened in Christ’s life during each of the days leading up to His crucifixion and resurrection. How much time is spent thinking…

TEXT: GALATIANS 4:1-7 | REMEMBER WHOSE YOU ARE INTRO ILLUSTRATION : Adoption is such an incredible thing. We had the privilege on Friday night to raise funds for Foster Montana. An organization that helps young lives who didn’t choose their life situation. They didn’t choose the hardships they are facing,…

Christ is not said to have received salvation,but to be salvation itself. John Calvin This bible study didn’t end up the way it started…it grew and became what it is through the direction and guidance of the Holy Spirit. Quote: When we begin our walk with God we are as we are, but through this process…

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself…

Knowing God – Part 4 – The Acts of God Proposition: God wants us to Know Him by knowing His Sovereign Acts An attribute refers to the characteristics of a person. In other words, attributes describe the nature of God. We learned that it is impossible to describe who God is in one word or a small sentence.…

The Character of Faith After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come…

Did you know that at least a few songs, or hymns, that are considered to be Christmas songs, really not particularly Christmas songs? I want to mention two of them this morning. One is the song we sang first this morning. “Joy to the World” was not written as a Christmas Song. It was written by Isaac…

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord…

Matthew 25:31-42 We began last week a series on the Truth about Our Hope. We saw that Hope Motivates us to Holiness. The Hope that we see when we look at this manger scene down here on this communion table is not a coming child, but the hope of a coming king. The Christ child has already come, He has…