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Good Morning! This morning I want to take sort of a before and after approach to today’s sermon, so I want to start with the before. But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison. Now this is Saul in Acts Chapter 8 obviously,…

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.

Promise of Freedom – God Always Had a Plan Jesus, a light to the Gentiles Isaiah 42:6 , 49:6 , Luke 2:25-32 , Acts 26:23 I was very amused the other day when a friend of mine put up a post Well there you go folks. The end is nigh.... and we missed it! Many people approach Scripture thinking that they…

Introduction - Recap: Gather, Grow, Go vision for moving forward. I hope that this morning’s message is encouraging to you. - Main idea: We must be a church that goes out into the community throughout the week. Missional life is the going life. You know, I remember a day in ministry a few years ago when…

THE EXEMPLARY SOLDIER 1 Chronicles 12:1-40 Scripture Reading: 1 Chronicles 12:32-40 This chapter that we have just read from is an amazing chapter, in it we see some great truths for soldiering and also some great truths for the Christian life. I want to challenge you with something – the Christian life…

Intro We will follow our usual pattern of working our way through the passage. There are two main pictures here, the scene on the boat, and the scene between Jesus & Peter. Then there’s the closing verse to finish the book off! Jesus Brings Fruitfulness A Picture of Ministry As per usual in the book…

Evangelists We are looking at the five fold ministry office of the church given by the Lord “for the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry” And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work…

Introduction & Recap The Need for Good Leaders You know it. I know it. We need good leaders. We need good leaders. You want your kids school to have a good principal. You want your manager at work to be a great leader. You want our mayor, premier and prime minister to be really good at their job and…

Is there such a thing as small and big sins? How can we know the difference?

Intro In the last few weeks I have spoken to three different churches who are looking for pastors. As we well know, finding men with the right character, abilities and experience for Eldership is a hard job. If I only had the men, I would deploy three of them to these forward bases tomorrow. Or to one…

This book is about God. We can see it clearly this way: · The fish is mentioned 4 times. · The city is mentioned 9 times. · Jonah is mentioned 18 times. · God is mentioned 38 times. WHAT DO WE LEARN ABOUT JEHOVAH? HE CONTROLS . . . CREATION CITIES We should also learn that God will save whomever he desires,…

Pyramids -So I hope everyone has had a great Christmas -I’m excited for the new year, and I’m excited for us to Jump back into the book of Exodus in our series called “Pyramids”: -And if you remember we’re calling it pyramids because we’re trying to look at the Bible in levels like a pyramid -Where we…

Pastor Luke preached the Great Comission passage from Mark about how followers of Jesus are commissioned to proclaim the Good News of Jesus' salvation to everyone.

Ingredient #1 - Born Again Believers (vs. 1)

A powerful song was recorded and sung a number of years ago by Steve Green and contains these word: "God and God alone is fit to take the universe's throne. Let everything that lives reserve its truest praise for God and God alone." The Grace United crew deals with this very thing in Deuteronomy 6.1-9. Moses reminds the people, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart . . ." Start 2022 off right, giving a listen so you reserve your truest praise for God and God alone.

What is the Great Comission and why does it matter to each Christian and church?

A series on God's calling for our church - what it means for us, and our focus on the new (making new disciples) and the next (raising up and getting out of the way for the next generation)

Prayer--- Matthew 24:7-8 “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.” Ezekiel 33:11 “Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of…

Commissioned What do you think of when you think of Daniel? Of Ezekiel? Daniel - concrete, “I know something about him” Ezekiel - fuzzy Historical Introduction In 605 B.C. Prince Nebuchadnezzar led the Babylonian army of his father Nabopolassar against the allied forces of Assyria and Egypt. He defeated…

My first insight begins in Jesus's early life in the book of Luke chapter 2:49 we are in the midst of Jesus’s reply yo his parents upon him being found teaching. I want to point to Jesus’s desire to be about the fathers business from day one. He stated in verse 49 “why were you looking for me? Did you…