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What is the Church? Introduction What do you think about when you think about the church? A Little White Building A room with Blue Chairs and Blue Carpet A place where we come to sing songs, hear the word, and Worship Steeples, Bulletins, Hymnals, Organs, Stained Glass windows Ornate beautifully designed…

What is the Church? Introduction What do you think about when you think about the church? A Little White Building A room with Blue Chairs and Blue Carpet A place where we come to sing songs, hear the word, and Worship Steeples, Bulletins, Hymnals, Organs, When the Israelites where saved from Egypt and…

Introduction: This morning I’m gonna do something that may surprise all of you. I am giving all of you a gift. Well that may not surprise you too much, but this will. This morning I want to ask all of you to give me a gift. Not only me but I’m asking you to give everyone in here a gift and everyone you…

Main Idea The purpose of the manger was the cross. Merry Christmas! Today, we get to celebrate the birth of Jesus! Unfortunately, we were unable to meet last night. My goal was to briefly show how the Jewish people had been waiting for this day for hundreds of years, surveying a few key prophecies in…

Intro: Today is Naomi’s 10th birthday… so that means after our evening service, we will probably go home and have some cake, a little bit of ice cream and Naomi will be able to open her birthday gifts. As parents there are a couple of reasons that we give gifts to our children… First of all we give gifts…

Our master determines our end, our master determines our benefit or fruit, our master determines our eternity.

The Gift of Jesus Christmas morning is a special time of year. It’s the season when we come together to celebrate the birth of Jesus, our Savior and Lord. On this day, as we gather with family and friends, let us reflect on the greatest gift ever given: The Gift of Jesus. Through His life and death on…

Now here we have a passage of Scripture, which for the sake of a sermon we have entitled Perfecting the Saints. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus made a rather shocking statement. He said, 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. “Be ye therefore perfect even as…

Holy Spirit Ministers: the Lost and Saved The Lost - Conviction - John 16 Bring them to God The Saved - Individually and Collectively Individually Regenerates or Transforms us. 2 Corinthians 3:18 (KJV 1900) 18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into…

Romans 5:10–15 (KJV 1900) 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 11 And not only so , but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. 12 Wherefore,…

12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For in fact the…

The starting position in basketball or any sport is a coveted position. In basketball you are one of your teams top 5 and you get to be on the floor a significant portion of the game. The starting position is the spot everyone wants. And often you have individuals not joining or quitting a team because…

A brief outline to keep in mind the flow of thought in Romans so far. It’s all about the good news of God, the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes God’s wrath is being revealed against godlessness and wickedness of people They do not glorify God or give thanks, and their thinking…

In the New Testament era, the true gift of tongues was the ability to speak a language which was unknown to the speaker but known to someone present. God had a very definite purpose in it, which we’ll see later on in this message, but in the Corinthian assembly, they had taken the true gift and had twisted…

Ephesians 4:7–11 (KJV 1900) 7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. 9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower…

Thesis: This section of the epistle describes the proper response to God's offer of salvation and the blessings attached to it, the first of which is to maintain the unity of the Spirit. Ephesians 4:1-16 Review Paul Prays that God open their eyes . He describes the hopeless situation of the Gentiles…

Christ is the way. . . Christ is the way, way more than we think, or ask as it says in (Eph3:20) and as we look at our passage today we learn another aspect of this. (Insert Christ is more PowerPoint slide here) Christ is more than the way to: God, Life and Truth Love, Joy and Peace Unity, Prayer, Forgiveness…

Last week we started a journey looking at spiritual gifts in the church. We specified those spiritual gifts centering on the miraculous spiritual gifts or sign gifts that Paul deals with in the church in Corinth. Last week I made the case for the belief system called cessation ism, which holds to the…

A Work of Grace For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. What a ride we have had…

The Greek word that is used in Romans 12:8 to designate the seventh Motivational Gift is “eleeo.” The King James Version translated, “to show mercy.” It is defined by Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, as, “to have compassion – by word or deed – specifically, obtain, receive, or show, by Divine grace.”…

Introduction: Does anyone here today have a reason to be thankful? I know we all do so let’s give God some praise. This time of year during the Thanksgiving holiday it is a time for all people to reflect on all the things we have to be thankful for. Originally, Thanksgiving was a time to thank God for…

Learning by Example What does it mean to learn by example? Representative Paul was a representative for Christianity in what he preached but also in how he lived. The Corinthians could learn about being a Christian from both. They could learn where they are wrong by Paul’s example. Paul was an example…

Ephesians 2:4-9 Pretty much everyone agrees that we are saved by faith. However those who believe that you can lose your salvation, when discussing this issue, ask a very important question: If our salvation is gained through believing in Christ, Doesn’t it make sense that salvation can be lost if we…

Celebrating the Wider Body of Christ Yesterday, I had the great privilege, with my wife Bobbi, of attending the dedication of the new worship facility at Community First Church of God in Homeland, CA. Pastor Mike Gratzke with his wife Kim have served the church there for more than 10 years. I have worshipped…

Story : Let’s be honest. Christmas gifts are great! As we prepare to celebrate on Christmas day with friends and family, there will most assuredly be a gift that you have to figure out how to respond to without hurting someone’s feelings or feeling foolish. I want to offer you eight ways to respond to…