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Sweet Aroma of Prayer Introduction: What are some of your favorite smells? mine: fresh rain; roses; Japanese cherry blossom; puppy; chocolate chip cookies; There are some smells that just relax and refresh you. We are going to look at some old testament scripture today. God set in the beginning for Prayer…

Introduction: This weekend, I was blessed by my wife to get one of those griddles like a Blackstone. It’s the kind like they have in a restaurant that you cook on outside. In doing my homework to figure out which griddle I wanted, I have watched a lot of videos of people cooking on these griddles. They…

Taste and See Psalm 34 (ESV) Central Idea: God will fully satisfy those who trust him to satisfy the longings of their hearts. Psalm 34 is a psalm of joy. It is about the joy of experiencing the goodness of God. Psalm 34:5 Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. “ Introduction…

Christmas is a wonderful time of year. Full of goodies, treats and surprises! I have a surprise for you tonight. We are going to pass the offering plates tonight. So if you men would come forward please. However, tonight is special, instead of putting something into the plate, I would like you to take…

Today we are continuing our study through Peter’s 1st letter. Peter wrote this letter to encourage believers in His day. However, the words the Holy Spirit inspired Him to write, are just as needed today. We face the same struggles of various kinds. God allows trials in our lives to test us. Not so that…

What is it that keeps a christian going through the trials, tribulations and the temptations in this life? Hope What then is that hope? Heaven, a place of promise , peace, no SIN or suffering and being in the presence of our Savior forever! So then how does a christian maintain that hope in heaven when…

I want us to look tonight, deep into the scriptures that we read this morning. There are four main things/subjects I want to consider that we didn’t have time to deal with this morning. Those four things are; Mountains, Moses and Elijah, Peter’s saying, and the Cloud. Text; Mark 9:2-7 2 Now after six…

NOTE: This is a manuscript, and not a transcript of this message. The actual presentation of the message differed from the manuscript through the leading of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it is possible, and even likely that there is material in this manuscript that was not included in the live presentation…

TASTE AND SEE It’s Thanksgiving Week! Happy Thanksgiving! Last week we began a miniseries on Psalms of Thanksgiving. We will continue that this week by looking at Psalm 34 Concerning David, when he pretended to be insane in the presence of Abimelech, who drove him out, and he departed. I will bless the…

Intro How do people come to a new life with God? How do people hear and discover, how do they experience the kingdom of God? Let’s look to the bible to answer some of these questions Let’s read Matthew 5:13-16 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be…

Open to Heb 6:4-8 ... Explain context - middle of the third warning ( Heb 5.11-6:12 ) 5.11-6.3 - shames the audience 6.4-8 - illustrates the danger 6.9-12 - encourages and exhorts Now, why is this passage difficult or controversial? Because of the questions it can pose... Does it teach that believers…

Morning 21 January 24

Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail…

4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, When the set time had fully come…God sent His Son! God made the most magnificent decision by choosing to come in the person of Jesus! Out of His love, He chose to make His dwelling among us! He chose to enter…

Sometimes in life warning signs can be glaring in our face and so blatant that we must deal with them. And yet there are other times where they are subtle and we often miss them. A few weeks ago I went to a baseball game in Denver Colorado and outside the baseball park was a gentlemen who had a little…

*If you guys had to pick out a theme that has run through the early part of this book of 1 Samuel... what would you say that is? To me it seems that - Judgment is the pretty clear winner in that regard. We’ve seen... The Tale of Two Families (Elkanah and Eli) = Judgment Blessing & Judgment The Ark of…

Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. On the third day there was…

4 For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since…

Introduction 1 Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3 And this…

Prayer Requests Gary Locklear, a family friend of Woody and Elayne, is in Duke Hospital suffering from COVID-19. He just recently lost a brother to COVID-19. Pray for God’s healing grace to restore him to good health. Turn to and read Mark 9:1-8 . Pray. Allow me to begin with a question: That is, in…

The Goodness of God Before we get into the attribute we are going to look at today I want to start off with the beginning of an interaction Jesus has with the man known as the rich young ruler. I’m not going to explain the whole interaction, but I want this to be the beginning of our study this morning.…

Morning 4 June 2023

Who Are We? Peter has just spent the first chapter reminding the readers of their wondrous salvation and then encouraging them to be who they are by exhibiting the Right Hope Right Conduct Right Worship Now, Peter transitions into an exhortation to not just be who they are, but to become who they are…

Rise Above and Overcome! There are foods that satisfy, and there are foods that fulfill. I want to show you the differences between three types of food found in the bible. A milk that tastes like fulfillment A food that satisfies. A food that fulfills. We do things in life to stop pain or to satisfy…

11 Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.…