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Happy New Year, church family! Like the ocean’s tide, 2023 has receded and ready or not, 2024 has arrived. It’s customary for us to mark the start of a new year by both looking back while simultaneously looking forward. We wonder where a year has gone, or the years for that matter. Believe it or not,…

We will never forget! 9/11 Was nearly 22 years ago. Have we forgotten? What happens when we forget? We lose the value of the past. Why is it so easy to forget from generation to generation? Our culture has taught us to think that we are the center of our own universe. Your struggles, your desires, your…

Intro: Why are you here this morning? ( don’t answer out loud ) How you answer this Q will reveal to you where your fire/zeal is & Where the fire/zeal has fizzled or been abandoned. You are not alone here: Over the next several weeks we are going to dive into seven letters to seven churches that lived…

Our Scripture lesson this morning is from Deuteronomy 4:9-14 : “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children— how on the…

TOMORROW… Is shrouded in the unknown masked by uncertainty It holds anticipated joy, ease, and freshness for some While for others Sorrow, difficulty or or mundane For some it brings fear yet for others it offers HOPE… Why? I would submit to you today that tomorrow is best approached by our remembering……

Introduction 1 At that time Merodach-Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered. 2 And Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his treasures—the silver and gold, the spices and precious…

Philippians 3:7-14 7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And…

New Years Resolutions Lose weight, be taller, making more money, being nicer, getting in shape, treating our spouse better. resolutions that we want about ourselves resolutions that we want for others Scrooge had a Christmas resolution Scrooge was visited by 3 spirits past, present, and future Charles…

Memorial Day “Never Forget” This weekend we observe Memorial Day. We don’t celebrate it, we observe it. People died for our freedom. We don’t celebrate their death, we observe that day and remember their sacrifice for us. A sacrifice is not something to celebrate as much as it is something to appreciate.…

This Sunday, we look at a few of the things we tend to forget when we are tired or stressed.

Why Should I Forgive and Forget? Rev. Thomas A. West, Sr March 10, 2024 Matthew 18:21-35 The other day I saw an advertisement for Karate Lessons, and it made me think about the different lessons people usually take (Golf Lessons, Piano Lessons, Gun Safety Lessons, etc.) But I’ve never seen an advertisement…

The people here were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, since they received the word with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord ,’ for they will all know me, from the least…

12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. Covering our mind and watching for deception will keep us standing. Jesus commands us to be watchful and tells us why. 41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Jesus…

Hosea 4:2–3 2 You make vows and break them; you kill and steal and commit adultery. There is violence everywhere— one murder after another. 3 That is why your land is in mourning, and everyone is wasting away. Even the wild animals, the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea are disappearing. Scripture…

For the last several years I have gotten up super early on Easter to think about how many people so easily awake to forget about Jesus and what He has done for us. Our society has not helped with this over the years. It is so easy to put things on our schedule on Sunday’s or just to sleep in on a Sunday…

The only way for Jesus to completely take away the guilt of our sin was for Jesus to become completely like us in every way; sometimes we forget what it means that Jesus has become our brother.

This sermon recaps the Marching Orders series up to this point. The goal is that we can apply the messages and not forget what we have learned.

Sometimes we try so hard to make Christmas feel special that forget the ways in which Christmas is also ordinary; God did something special when Jesus was born at Christmas, but it came into an ordinary world in an ordinary way.

12 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed. 14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one…

Introduction During initial construction on the Golden Gate Bridge, no safety devices were used and 23 men fell to their deaths. For the final part of the project, however, a large net was used as a safety precaution. At least 10 men fell into it and were saved from certain death. Even more interesting,…

Over the summer we have been going through a series to Understand Bible Prophecy. My goal is to help us all better understand what God has revealed about Himself, and His plan to redeem us, and to restore us to Himself. I do not believe God wants any believer to think that they cannot understand what…

It’s a mad, mad, mad world Turn on the new’s, pick up the newspaper or turn on the radio and you will have it confirmed that we live in a mad, mad world in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (Php2:15) 15 so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above…

From Comfort to Coming We have looked at the comfort of Christ coming (1The4:13-18) to the certainty and method of His coming, now to what we need to do to be prepared for His coming, and, yes, the warnings about not being prepared for His coming. Don’t be uninformed; be comforted that He is coming (1The4:13,…

Trouble in the Text: Heaven and Earth will pass away, and some will be caught off guard. Jesus says that He, the one like a Son of Man, will return and Life as we know it will end. It will be Obvious. It will be Sudden. For unprepared, it may Hurt. Everything will not always be the same. For the prepared,…