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A Psalm for giving thanks. 1 Make a joyful noise to the Lord , all the earth! 2 Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! 3 Know that the Lord , he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving,…

God, the Creator God’s power is revealed in the initial creation and the continuing sustenance of the universe. Humanity represents the climax of the Creator’s purposes. Ne 9:6 See also Ge 1:1 ; Isa 45:7 ; 66:2 ; Eph 3:9 ; Rev 4:11 6 You alone are the Lord ; You have made heaven, The heaven of heavens,…

Good Morning. Turn with me to Psalm 19. I want to begin our time today by starting with a question. Why should we praise God? As we look around our world and even into our own lives there are many days where we can find that it is difficult to praise God. So, as believers why should we praise God? Today…

Intro: Prayer before the Royals game. How are we? Doing well? If you have your Bibles, go ahead and grab those. Matthew, chapter 6, is where we're going to camp out. If you don't have a Bible with you, there should be a hardback black one somewhere around you, as always. I want you to see that I'm not…

The First Nöel we’ve all heard the song haven’t we? “The First Noel the angels did say was to certain poor shepherds in fields where they lay” Did you know this is a very old song? It was first sung outside churches, somewhere around the 13th or 14th centuries in Cornwall - that’s south east England.…

Introduction Have you ever thought about the immensity of the universe? Have you ever thought of the immensity of our planet? The earths circumference is 24, 901 miles. We have the perfect mixture of gasses to keep and sustain life. It is perfectly positioned from the sun for this life to happen and…

Praise Praise the Lord , my soul. Lord my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty. The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides…

Intro: Leading worship in Rossville with laryngitis (Make a joyful noise) With that said, we're going to read Psalm 100 , because I want to talk about worship today. I'm excited to just talk with you about worship. But, I want to talk about worship maybe in a different way or come at it from a different…

10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments . His praise endures forever. So what does the “fear of the LORD mean? Dreadful Fear Deifying Fear Definite Fear (Do you fear Him at all) A DREADFUL FEAR Most commonly, we think of fear as…

1. The Universal Family 2. The Local Family 3. Joining the Family 3.How does one become a {member} of the Church? {how do I belong?} A. Joining the Universal Church a.To become a member of the {universal} {body} of Christ: i.Christ is the {builder} of His church: 18 “I also say to you that you are Peter,…

Genesis 12:1-20 1 And Yahweh said to Abram, “Go forth from your land, And from your kin And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you; 2 And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; 3 And I will bless those who bless…

Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! I’m not much of a morning person, but yesterday I made a commitment to rise early and attend the Men’s Breakfast held at the Wesleyan Church here in town. It has been several months since I’ve attended one of these events, but I sensed…

Wed we began this short series of God’s not Dead with the message God’s Transforming Lives. We discussed how we have to through off the past, allow God to change the way we think and then put on our new selves. A pastor got a letter “Dear Pastor. I’m very discouraged and I’m really hurting at this time.…

Good Morning, turn with me today to Luke chapter 1. Today’s message is a message or a song of praise. There have been many songs written recently about praising God and I am thankful for that. There are many rich hymns that help us to see how important our worship and praise of God truly is. We should…

O Lord , our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and…

1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. What if God didn’t speak? A few weeks ago my father in law was visiting us and…

The providence of God is His almighty and everywhere present power, whereby as it were by hand, He upholds and governs heaven, earth and all creatures; so that herbs and grass, rain and drought, fruitful and barren years, meat and drink, health and sickness, riches and poverty, yea, and all things come,…

God-Centered Worship It is a great privilege The story is told of a Japanese war lord who was known as Hitioshi who was in Japan in the late 1500’s. He decided that he wanted a colossal statue of Buddha created to put in a temple there in Kyoto Japan. So he got 50,000 workers that worked on it for 5…

Introduction: Names are important. Names help us distinguish one person from another of the same gender, build, and race. Not only do names classify a title given to a person, but in the Bible, names often reflect the characteristics of a person like Jacob the trickster. So what name is the Creator of…

Introduction We are week two of the series on God’s Grace in the Church. Last week we spent time learning why we need to study the book of Ephesians. So today open your bibles to Ephesians 1:3-14 The word blessing is a word that most Christians are familiar with today. If you were to go the bookstore…

Has there ever been a day you just couldn’t wait for? Maybe it was your wedding day, birthday, anniversary, or the first day of a vacation you were going to take. I remember the first day of high school. I was nervous about being in a new school but I remember thinking it was going to be four years until…

We are in it together! We are not in this alone. God is with us We are His body collectively Series has helped us thus far to know how to walk closer with God through a variety of messages Are you a disciple; enjoy the blessings and take responsibilities of it. Meet together in sweet communion. We spent…

Introduction Summarize: We have been redeemed so that we can know God’s will This mystery is revealed so that we can take action. Exposition 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom…

Our Scripture lesson this morning is from 1 Corinthians 15:12-28 : Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised,…