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Philippians 3:1-11 Philippians 3:1–11 “Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! To write this again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you. Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh! For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship…

Galatians 6 Good morning church! Great to be with you all this morning on what is going to be a hot day! I was going to say it’s going to be a scorcher today, but I thought some of you would run out afraid of the sermon that’s coming! The only bad thing about the message this morning is that we are probably…

Philippians 3:15–21 “Therefore let those of us who are “perfect” embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways. Nevertheless, let us live up to the standard that we have already attained. Be imitators of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully…

Matthew 5:13–16 (CSB) 13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty? It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. 14 “You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 No one lights…

What are you afraid of? I know this is a strange question. For some, you quickly told yourself something like, “I’m a Christian I not allowed to be afraid”? Or, “I don’t fear because of Jesus.” Both very true statements but may be what we say, think or try to live out in order to not have to answer this…

The Lord loves us and has chosen us even in our imperfections. You may be bruised, broken, scarred from life. But the perfect lamb died so that you the blemished could have eternal life.

HUMANITY’S TRAGIC SIN AND FALL A. The temptation that led to the FALL 1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” 4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You…

Matthew 18:21-35 We have been working through the topic of the Truth of Forgiveness. a couple of weeks ago, before Easter, we talked about some practical truths about forgiving someone, but there is more that I want to talk about before we end this series. For instance, What should we say when a person…

What is Truth in a Culture of Liars? We live in a broken world The problem is we focus on things that come from our own brokenness Our problem is that we tend to believe only what lines up with our own ideas Bias will overcome truth unless we make truth more important than self-satisfaction How to Destroy…

Right in His Own Eyes 6 In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. It was God’s desire to be King to the children of Israel. God gave them His commandments through Moses and spoke to them about blessing and the curse. It says it this way in 23 But…

Intro 25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil. 28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him…

Today we hear one of the most well worn passages of scripture. When I saw this passage it almost felt like putting on a pair of slippers, cozy, known, reassuring. I also believe we have a history of what we think this passage means. Please suspend that. The parable of the prodigal son actually comes…

19 And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’ anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain. 20 He took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water…

Intro; We now come to the meat of the message that Jesus is preaching. He has served appetizers and drink with the Beatitudes/Similitudes, and has set the table for the main course with His fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets. Now we are fixing to dig into a feast! Usually at a feast [ buffet ],…

2 Samuel 11-12 David has now conquered become king of the land, he has been approved of God; he has kept his word; he has received the Davidic Covenant; he has defeated his enemies; he has helped his friends and foes alike. He has done all that he could to care for the things of God. He has seen much…

THE THREAT FROMN WITHIN Scripture Reading: Romans 8:1-9 1 Corinthians 3:1-4 When asked the question, “What is the greatest enemy of the local church?”, there would be a myriad of answers given. Many would be mistaken because they thing it was some evil thing out there. Some would say it is Humanism/Paganism…

Illustration: A Ridiculous Law 8.44.020 Permit Required. The wearing of shoes with heels which measure more than two inches in height and less than one square inch of bearing surface upon the public streets and sidewalks of the City is prohibited, without the wearer’s first obtaining a permit for the…

One bright morning as the Fox was following his sharp nose through the wood in search of a bite to eat, he saw a Crow on the limb of a tree overhead. This was by no means the first Crow the Fox had ever seen. What caught his attention this time and made him stop for a second look, was that the lucky…

We have been studying the method of relational or friendship evangelism. Last time we looked at the Master Evangelist, Jesus, and developed some principles that we can implement into our own lives. The principles of evangelism: 1. curiosity aroused; 2. problem pointed out; and then (maybe), 3. the answer…

Introduction In our culture, we often define people by their professions, possessions, and associations. We can easily make assumptions of others based on a persons ethnicity, socio-economic standing, age, and marital status. These assumptions have brought about deep wounds of emotional pain, exclusion,…

Intro: The wage of war around us right now at CPCC. How do we fight? What do we do? Tuesday, June 6, 1944; 6:30 a.m.: 5,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied Troops approached the southern beaches in France for the largest invasion in modern history, what we know now as D-Day. Some of the men who survived…

Philippians 3:12-14 Philippians 3:12–21 “Not that I have already attained this—that is, I have not already been perfected—but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting…

When you hear the word nobility, it often produces images of royalty or upper class people. A Google image search produced just that. I found a lot of paintings of old royal families and people dressed in fine attire. But the word noble is an adjective. It is a descriptive word. While one of the definitions…