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Theme : Certifiable Discipleship Word for the Week: Lawlessness is living life with contempt for God’s law or living in violation of God’s law. Memory verse: 1 John 2:17 (NKJV) And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever. Essence of the Text: Jesus…

There comes a time in every parent’s life. Your darling child is quietly playing in the other room and you quickly perceive that it’s quiet. too quiet . You fly into the adjacent room to discover irreparable damage has been done. Now, rather than give any children bad ideas from church to apply at home,…

Intro: Tonight as we finish the Gospel of Mark, I want us to look at what has become a controversial issue within the church, “Signs.” As Jesus commanded His disciples to “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature”, He said certain signs will follow those who believe. Jesus names…

30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. How many of us have ever struggled with our salvation?…

Love That Abides 1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give…

1 Thus says the Lord : “Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? 2 For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist,” Says the Lord . “But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite…

Mixed Emotions Smokey Robinson- If you feel like loving me, if you got the notion, I second that emotion. Plutchik proposed eight primary emotional dimensions: happiness vs. sadness, anger vs. fear, trust vs. disgust, and surprise vs. anticipation. However, you can mix these to create new ones; i.e.,…

He is Risen! He is risen, indeed! It is exciting to be celebrating the resurrection of Jesus together! The resurrection is what makes our faith unique in all of the world! There is no other faith or religion that has the resurrected Savior, the great I AM, as the core of their faith. When you read the…

Sickness To Health 1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour . 2 And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;…

1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. 3 He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For…

There was a 5 year old boy, who told his dad he wanted a baby brother, and that he was willing to do whatever he could to have one. His father told him: “I’ll tell you what, if you pray every day for two months, I guarantee God will give you one!” The boy eagerly agreed, and began to pray every night…

Intro; As we continue to look at the narrative of “The Triumphal Entry”, I want us to look at “The Blind That Did Not See.” This morning we saw that Jesus healed two men from blindness. One of those men is named in the Gospel account of Mark. His name is Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus. The question is,…

Sermon # 11 Genesis 17:1-27 THE PROMISE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD Intro : Some fourteen years had past since God last spoke to Abraham. Not since his disobedience in the matter of Hagar had Abraham heard the voice of God. The times of His silence are most devastating when they come our way. We need to learn…

Context: Where does this fit in the Big Picture of God's Glory? In the days after the healing of the lame man; early church development Overview: What's going on here? 13 When they observed the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and recognized…

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. How do you spot something that is real and something that is fake? What? Sometimes a forgery…

32 Now as Peter was traveling through all those regions , he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda. 33 There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years, for he was paralyzed. 34 Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; get up and make your bed.” Immediately he…

God with us God with us ( Mt1:23 ). How do you put into words about God with us? John tasks himself with a great opportunity and responsibility to reveal to us God with us and the outcome of believing in God with us. There is so much to try to grasp, it can be overwhelming when we try to consider the…

We’re continuing on in our series of Seeking Truth in a World of Counterfeits. So far our series has included questions such as: What is Truth? Is there a God? Can God be Known? And we’re now in this sort of subset of that question in that God has revealed Himself in the Bible and through His Son Jesus,…

Maggie and I travel differently, especially when it comes to GPS. We both plug the address into our phones, so that we have the map and the directions in front of us. We have a phone holder that attaches to the vent in the dash so that the phone is held up for us. But, here is where the difference lies.…

This May, May 20, my wife and I will celebrate 17 years of marriage. On our wedding day, we did something we thought was really cool. We had seen some friends of ours do it in their wedding and we wanted to have it in ours too. So, on May 20, 2006, before we said “I do”, before we were pronounced husband…

1. They stood at a distance 12 As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance It was custom that those who had leprosy were not allowed to be with everyone else. They often formed communities outside of the cities. When people came along, they would stay back…

1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were…

Call To Worship 1 Give unto the Lord , O you mighty ones, Give unto the Lord glory and strength. 2 Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name; Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Giving 6 Now godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain…

Scott’s Story: A businessman and church goer—who’s compassion for people led him to do a short-missions trip to Haiti. “Everyone—including the most impoverished deserve to hear the message of Jesus Christ.” What Scott and many others have discovered is how taking the message of Jesus seriously impacts…

The Story Starter: Welcome and acknowledgement Christmas wishes Building fund Let us prayer for the sick and for those who traveled and will be traveling soon. on time challenge Year end Adm meeting in January Today our theme is “ The Name Emmanuel .” My name is Emmanuel . . . (In this lesson I am not…