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God is Spirit One of the things that I hope to accomplish with this sermon series is that we get a bigger and grander view of who God is. Theologian A.W. Tozer wrote, “The weightiest word in any language is its word for God.” He also wrote “What we think when we think about God is the most important…

Good Morning, would you turn with me today to Psalm chapter 65. The Title of our message today is, “Why Should You Praise God?” Why should I praise God? This may be difficult for some today. Why? Because of difficulties in life, maybe even anger at God, or the fact that some folks because of sin are…

Psalm 145 is an incredible song of praise. I don’t know if David wrote this Psalm as a primer on how to praise God, but it certainly could be used as such! In this world around us full of uncertainty and chaos, but also of joy and happiness of the mountaintops, we learn from this Psalm that we are to…

INTRODUCTION Let’s turn together in our Bibles to Acts…chapter 2. Acts…chapter 2. & we’re gonna read verses 1-4 & verse 11. Acts 2:1-4 , & verse 11. In Acts 2:1-4 ... the Scriptures says... Acts 2:1–4 (WEB) 1 Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 Suddenly…

INTRODUCTION Let’s turn together in our Bibles: To the gospel of Luke. Luke chapter 2 . & we’re gonna read verses 21-39 . Luke 2:21-39 . & when you find that in your Bible Pls stand for the reading of God’s Word. The title of today’s teaching is: Make Yourself Useful to the Lord In Luke 2:21-39 . The…

Introduction Back in September, I sat down and began to set out a preaching schedule and themes for the next few months. I knew we were going to do Jonah and I looked at the dates for Advent. Advent, a time to reflect on the beginning of Emmanuel, God dwelling with us, and I noticed that there would…

Selfless Love Marches Victorious over Self-glorification GOAL: Understand the surprising value of Love as God bestows it, and practice it. MALADY: We emotionalize love, which makes it subject to our unreliable feelings. MEANS: The means to the goal is the carefully considered understanding of the fullness…

Jesus Reveals His Glory at a Wedding Do you know what is amazing, even remarkable. It’s not that God’s changed water into wine. Rather, it is the manner in which He did so. He didn’t do so according to the laws He set down to govern what we like to call “nature.” Instead, he chose to do so by means of…

Delight Uncovered I have a friend in San Diego who loves wine. San Diego is very much a desert climate, but there is also a lot of granite. It is a challenge to cultivate the soil due to all the rock and granite. Well, my friend built his dream home on top of a steep hill in San Diego county, and decided…

Introduction But Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.’ If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food. But if you will not send him, we will not go down; for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see…

Announcements Are there any announcements? This Friday January 7 at 6:30pm we are having an Evening of Worship led out by Juan and Emily, please come and worship with us. Patti Pointer is now teaching Sunday School. Prayer is at 9:15am, study starts around 9:30am. The Revelation Bible Study will start…

Introduce self... Pray... Introduce series: For advent this year, I am going to preach through 4 simple truths... On the surface, these truth’s seem to be little more than platitudes, but through careful examination I hope to scratch the surface and demonstrate their rich depth. 1 Timothy 6:12 (ESV)…

Give Thanks to God Our theme verse today is Colossians 3:17 17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. If we simply read this verse we might think this only refers to our own individual action. Certainly, our personal individual…

Introduction The Lord has revealed to Moses he will die and that Israel will betray Him And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake…

Isn’t that a pleasant thought. You came to church today and the pastor said we need a cleanse. We are getting ready to do 21 Days of Prayer. In January we do prayer and fasting. But in August, we don’t. But there are things we need to get our of our system. Detox - Removal of toxic substances from a…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, we come before you today with Joy in our hearts. Joy for being in this space together. Joy for being able to be together. And joy for the day itself which represents the day in which our new lives can begin. We thank you and praise you this day for all these things…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, on this day that we celebrate Christ’s arrival in Jerusalem and immediately move to his passion, we ask that you help us to open our hearts, minds and spirits to your still speaking voice above the din of all other voices in our hearts, minds, and spirits so that…

Let us pray…God, may the words of my mouth, the meditations of all of our hearts, and the willingness of our spirits be pleasing unto you this day. Today’s time of reflection on this Psalm is going to be a bit different for us. I know I typically spend time relating the scripture to our lives but I want…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, as we gather this day, we are reminded that your love knows no limits and no bounds. Help us in this time to remember and reflect on this idea so that we can find comfort and peace in a time that is out of our control, and remind us that your time is perfect. Now,…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, on this first Sunday in Lent, we are standing at the stream of life and longing for your presence amongst us in this time that seems to be a never ending period of grief, despair, sorrow, and sadness. We are ready to celebrate and be able to praise you once again.…

Introduction Over the next 5 weeks we are going to gather and discuss five big ideas. We will look at 5 more after Christmas. These ideas are taken from our church’s doctrinal statements. Each week we are going to look at the Big Idea from the statement and dig into scripture to find out where these…

Whom do we trust ? A fundamental question we ask, whether we know it or not. Character matters. This is true always but definitely true in matters of trust. To trust without character is to set oneself up for pain. The past matters. The greatest predictor of the future behavior is past behavior. Yes…

This morning, I want to begin a series in the book of Psalms by asking you a peculiar question: "Why are we so tired all the time?" I’m tired of this pandemic! I’m sick of wearing masks everywhere I go, I’m tired of social distancing and what it does to the local church. This seems to be a shared problem…

Three weeks ago we started a study to help us to end this year off in a better place than we have been and to start the new decade in a good place.It’s a study in Psalm 145 , which is the only Psalm David titled a Psalm of Praise.When we put into practice what is taught in this Psalm we will see it changes…

Because the Lord is the Rock of our Salvation - Let us Enter into POWERFUL PRAISE 1 Come, let us sing to the Lord ! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come to him with thanksgiving. Let us sing psalms of praise to him. 3 For the Lord is a great God, a great King above all gods.…