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Intro: Last week I had the choice to preach for an hour and a half, or break the sermon up into smaller bitesize chunks. Arn’t you glad I broke it up. We established Christ as the Cornerstone of the church last week. It is essential to understand that He is the foundation and the part that all other…

Sermon Recap characteristics of the blessed (5:2-16) perfect righteousness comes from the heart, characteristic of only Jesus (5:17-30) complete hatred of and lacking mercy, grace and even love for enemies is not characteristic of kingdom children (5:31-48) good works are not performed for men but in…

Why do we dedicate so much time for the sermon? In a world where you can watch a sermon from almost any preacher anywhere in the world online, why do we spend valuable time on preaching? Especially when the sermon isn't very good?

15/01/23

Individual Value So, what was the most notable aspect of Andrew? He respected and valued each and every person. If we look at Andrew, he brought individual people to Jesus - not groups or crowds. Interestingly, also, almost every time we hear Andrew mentioned in the gospels he is bringing someone to…

Good morning and welcome to Dishman Baptist Church. Whether you are joining us in person or online I am truly grateful that you would spend your time with us this morning. Please take your Bibles and turn with me to Ephesians 4 , Ephesians 4 . We’ve jumped back into this book following the Advent season…

Evening 19th June 2022

Fear While this mornings message is not a part of our current series we are going to do this lesson this morning in a class format for a special presentation by HomeMission. So this morning there are going to be questions along the way and I ask for your involvement. You get to be a part of their mission…

Video: Every Praise Thank you for joining Faith Vision Christian Ministries Faith Vision i s a Christian church, based on the Word of God. We are a training ground for all things Jesus Christ. We are loving God , Loving People living by faith Thank you for joining us today , Please set everything aside…

Series Intro A change agent , or agent of change , is someone who promotes and enables change to happen within any group or organization. In the famous sermon on the mount Jesus said to His disciples "you are the salt of the earth you are the light of the world" AKA you are change agents . As a result…

Office of Holy Ministry I heard a story of a pastor who said, as he closed the service, “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the . . .”—and then experienced a momentary lapse of memory. He continued, “and the—ah—the friendship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” As he walked…

I appreciate the music that our worship leaders pick up, purposefully leading us to look away from the craziness of this world and look to God. We are blessed to have musicians who take this responsibility seriously. Some churches have leaders who just throw a few songs together. Some churches don’t…

Throughout the history of the church different aspects of the Gospel message have been emphasised at different times. Especially since the Reformation in the 1500 and 1600s we have seen a variety of expressions of the Gospel message. Some have emphasised personal encounter with Christ, others the aspects…

2 Timothy 4

CAVEAT: As we begin here this morning, I want to be honest. If you are not a believer, this is not a sermon that is going to explain why you need the Gospel. Instead, it is sermon - challenging our church about how to live the Gospel we already believe. And I hope as you consider why you are here this…

Good morning - it is wonderful to be here this morning. I am so honored to call this church my home, and all of you family. Church is the family that we choose, there are many many churches, and plenty of reasons that anyone would choose to be a part of some other place - but you have decided to be here,…

Right belief produces speech and behavior that bears God's Approval.

An old saying goes, “A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to come unraveled. 16 Rejoice evermore. 17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and…

Review: Kingdom Building Our desire is to seek God advance His Kingdom in our community in us and through us. Be watchful to guard against gospel drift Fight the flesh by walking in the Spirit and bearing spiritual fruit Persevere under pressure in: Faith Hope Love Because Jesus is worth it! Then we…

INTRODUCTION Living Above The Darkness The letter Paul writes to the Ephesians church and the churches surrounding the Ephesian church is, how to live above the seemingly endless darkness. How to talk the talk the walk the walk. For those of you just joining us on this journey - The Letter is broken…

2 Tim 4:7 I have fought the good fight Before I read the Scripture for the sermon today. I need to explain what it is not. It is not a funeral or a retirement farewell, I am not saying that Rick is in the end of his life. They are an example to us and I pray that they will still have many and many years…

Intro: There is a foundational truth in many sports. You have to often go backward to move the ball forwards. In soccer, you will often see a team reverse field, which means the ball is played back from the midfield to the defense to even the goalie, only to have the goalie send the ball up the opposite…

WHEN GRACE COMES ALL THE WAY HOME And immediately he left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon’s mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her,…

There is a story I once heard of two men who’s job was to chop wood. Every day they arrived at the same time, had the same quota for wood, and worked hard until noon. At noon one lumberjack left for two hours, while the other decided to keep on working. But every day, the man who took the break finished…

--- Title Slide Scripture Intro: Scripture Reading (“Please stand…”) You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured;…