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The Sanctity of Life WHO DETERMINES PERSON-HOOD? Psalm 139:13–18 (ESV) 13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you , for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you ,…

Intro: “Fifty-eight percent of people who identify as Christian do not believe the Holy Spirit is real. At least that is what the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University found in a study done in 2021. Nearly 70 percent of US adults self-identify as Christian, but many of them express…

Who Is the Holy Spirit? 22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! Have you ever been expected to do something outside your ability? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________…

Introduction: Christmas is a time where we love to sing the carols. They remind us of happy memories and moments of Christmas’s past. My wife and I recently started a devotion leading up to Christmas that examines the message in the Christmas carols. Did you know that most of our most beloved carols…

Humanity We are continuing to work through Dr. John Walton’s book on Genesis One. We have been looking at the individual days of creation. Last we talked about day six. We paused before completing the last section to pay particular attention on the creation of humanity. Let read that part of Genesis…

Big Idea of the Message: God calls all of us to follow Him wholeheartedly. Compassion So before we can grasp Matthew 10:1-4 we have look back a little bit to Matthew 9 and specifically v. 36 -38; 36 But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered,…

Last week we looked at the beginning of time and all creation. Genesis was given to show us the past, the beginning, and to show us the God who created it all. History is His story. The Bible gives us a glimpse into God’s creative works, giving us enough detail to understand some things but not nearly…

Psalm 46 can be called the KEEP CALM Psalm. It is a song of confident trust. It was the Psalm of the Reformation. Martin Luther wrote his beloved hymn “A Mighty Fortress is our God” from this Psalm. He wrote his great hymn during a debilitating time of extreme crisis. It was the summer of 1527, and the…

Mark 5:25–34 (NLT) 25 A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. 26 She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse. 27 She had heard about Jesus,…

Last week we saw the first humans born naturally, Cain and Abel, and the first murder, which is Cain’s legacy. Genesis was given to show us the past, the beginning, and to show us the God who created it all. History is His story. Chapter 4 ended with tragedy, but also with a glimmer of hope for mankind’s…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the gospel of Mark. We will read verses 1-8 by way of review and then we will read all the way down to our verses for study today, verses 9-13 . 1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 2 As it is written…

Sympathetic Rant I want to take a minute to address an issue that I think is important before we move forward that may be lurking in the background of the minds of people who are hearing something that may be new to them for the first time. I have not delusions about what I and many others who care deeply…

The Overview: Very Prevalent form of “cheap grace” theology. Masked in determinism and logical contradictions. God is Holy, Perfect and Just He is filled with both Love and Wrath We are Morally guilty before God due to sin Gods demand for righteousness must be kept We cannot possibly do it. Jesus did…

A few years ago, after the leaving the church and driving up Old Mountain Road, Janet hit one of those little black and white critters that seem to be all over this part of the country – you know, a skunk. And the smell of that little critter permeated the car so deeply that it hung around for days !…

Sabbath, Temple, Personhood To describe most of the people to whom Jesus spoke in His day as ‘Jews’ would sound odd to their ears. More likely they would identify themselves as people of the Law, Torah; or people whom God had chosen out of all other peoples. For those living in first-century Palestine,…

A Respect for Human Beings Our passage this morning is a short passage: Deuteronomy 21:10-14 . “When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your…

Praise God Who is Sovereign Over All BIG IDEA: Introduction Day 1 for man discovery vs. defined 1. God Made Us - vs. 1-7 vs. 1-3 repeatedly affirm that God finished his work. God ended - He rested God certainly did not rest due to weariness; rather, establishing the pattern for man’s work cycle, He only…

This morning I want us to attempt a monumentally difficult challenge. And let me say at the beginning of our attempt that I fully expect, in fact I fully know, that we will fail in our challenge. The challenge that I want for us to attempt this morning is to embrace and comprehend the deep deep love…

11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the…

All authority proceeds from the Throne of God.

Have your Bibles ready this morning because we will be looking at the Bible as whole this morning and not really camping in one location of the Bible. What we are going to discussing in this series of messages is Does your God match with the God of Holy Scripture? Confronting your God vs. the God of…

About 2 weeks ago we noticed that our dog was acting very lethargic and appeared to be in pain as she was hesitant to climb up on her window bench but preferred to rest in her kennel. As I called the vet and set up an appointment to be seen. Ann and I discussed “keeping her comfortable”, which is code…

How many of you like movies? You all know I do. How do you go about deciding whether you will watch a movie or not? Back when they had physical video stores, you might go in and look at the cover, read the description on the back, see who the actors were, or ask around for recommendations. In the internet…

While Peter gave in to pressure and disowned Jesus, Jesus maintains his claim before the highest Jewish authorty.

13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the…