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Intro – With all the hustle and bustle going on right now as you start to getting ready for Christmas, I believe we need to be reminded why Christmas is a good idea. Without Christmas… • The candied fruit market would completely collapse! • Our boring, uneventful lives would have no stress at all! •…

Glorious Dark Night Last week we looked at the beginning of John 13 . We examined Jesus washing the feet of his disciples. And in that act we talked about the intense love and humility that Jesus Demonstrated. After Jesus had washed the feet of his Disciples he told them that their lives need to be marked…

A False Teacher is one who does not teach the true gospel of grace through the work of Jesus Christ. Someone who teaches the true gospel may teach other false things, but is not a false teacher. Paul is warning Timothy of the false teachers in Ephesus. These were teaching myths, and genealogies, turning…

Introduce self... Pray... Heavenly father, I praise you that you are great. I praise you that you were before all things and that by you all things hold together. I praise you that you are good. I praise you that all your ways are righteous and just. There is no imperfection in you. Thank you for coming…

Three small boys were in a Christmas play at school . They represented the three wise men and they were to give their gifts to baby Jesus . The first boy stepped forward, held out the gift in his hands and said, “Gold.” The second boy stepped forward, held out his gift and said, “Myrrh.” The third boy…

As we begin a series on Ephesians today, we’re going to be hearing from Paul’s letter to the churches around that region that displays the scope of God’s eternal plan for all humanity. As I read our scripture, I’m going to read the passage twice. The first time without the words on the screen, the second…

1 So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. 2 And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” 3 Then he said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to…

I’ve been asked a lot about the prophetic significance of much of what is happening around us. We’ve been living in the last days since Jesus went to heaven. There is nothing that needs to happen prophetically before Christ comes for His Church. Prophecy about Jesus was missed, misunderstood, dismissed,…

1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold,…

SRB 1 How to live as people worthy of our calling; understand our glorious inheritance - Ephesians 1 Scene 1: Spiritually destitute people have failed to grasp the richness of their inheritance . She had gone down in history as “America’s Greatest Miser,” yet when she died in 1916, “Hetty” Green left…

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: As we continue on in our Series in Ephesians, I want to bring your memory back to last Sunday morning, where I said that we would go through the entire letter together…

[ Isaiah 13:9-10 , 13 NKJV]; [ Ezekiel 32:7-8 NKJV]; [ Joel 2:30-32 NKJV] 13 so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints. 7 And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and…

Review: Yom Kippur was the day that the high priest would go into the holy of holies and offer a sacrifice of blood on behalf of the entire nation of Israel. This sacrifice, made once a year to cover sins, pointed towards the Lamb of God, who would be sacrificed once for all to take away sins forever.…

Glorious Intervention 1 And you hath he quickened , who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had…

Introduction: Have you ever been in a situation where you just weren’t strong enough to do something? Maybe it was a stubborn rusty bolt. No matter how hard you worked on it, it just wouldn’t budge. Maybe it was a piece of furniture you wanted to move - but you just didn’t have the ability to get it…

Introduction Glorious Definition - Listen to what the commentators write about Ephesians Ephesians tarries largely among the heavenlies. It is characterised by dignity and serenity which is in harmony with the elevation of its thoughts. There is scarcely even an echo of the great controversies which…

I . Intro . A . The gospel of salvation is glorious! 1. James Smith, a Christian writer wrote: “The gospel is a glorious revelation of divine grace — a manifestation of the purpose and good pleasure of God, to save sinners in harmony with, and to the honor of — all His divine perfections.” 2. "The gospel…

Boasting- In works and in identity Aesope tells the story of the Grasshopper and the ants.. Imortalized by disney in a early color cartoon. First the grass hopper boasts to the hard working ants claiming his way of life is the best, Singing, “the world owes me a living!” then when winter comes and this…

Without a doubt it has been a difficult week! This week we have heard that thousands have died because of a pandemic that seems to have overtaken every country in the world. And while we hear sad news from lands we have also been warned of local cases and cautioned and then commanded to stay at home…

Read the second half of Romans 5 Romans 5:12-21 12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— 13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death…

Read So I have told you all that the book of Romans is all about Good News! See it says so right here in the title of the sermon series- The Gospel ( good news) great and glorious. But what we have heard so far in Romans has not been great news. In chapter 1 paul told us that all of humanity is guilty…

I don’t know about you, but I have been glued to the news this week. No matter what we have been up to or how sick I have been with my little cold. I have had an eye on the news to find out more about the spread of Covid 19. I can’t help it. This is my first pandemic, and it is the first one that we…

What legacies have you recieved from your families? Your parents your grand parents. I don’t mean old houses cars or heirlooms. I mean legacies that matter. good legacies- family stories and traditions. skills, passions, and talents. memories and purposes. Bad: Wounds and coping mechanisms. patterns…

There is the story of Winnie the Pooh and piglet that is quite sweet. Winnie the pooh and piglet are off in the 100 acre wood out for an adventure then they stumble across some tracks, one track of a rather large animal and one track from a smaller animal. The tracks lead them to another set of tracks…

Read Romans 1:16-32 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.” For the wrath…