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If you were to walk around our city, you could go to areas that are building new homes and you would see concrete slabs. The rest of the house can’t go up until the foundation is laid. No walls can be built. No roof shingled. No plants planted. No windows installed. No walls painted. No memories made…

Love God. Love people. Make disciples. Ever heard that? Bringing In the Sheaves? Remember that old song. None of us knew what it meant. As we saw on Wednesday, it is a reference to the Jewish Festival of Weeks (or Pentecost), which was a celebration of the harvest in Old Testament times. A sheaf of wheat…

Abraham Watched The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day. He looked up and saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent entrance to meet them, and bowed down to the ground. *** Image: Three visitors Watching:…

Introduction New Year’s Resolutions and Goals. Goodreads - A time to set reading goals. Yet, from all the books I read, the one that impacts my life and holds a place at the center is the Bible. It can be an intimidating book: size and content and mysteries. Unfamiliar names and themes and doctrines.…

Practice makes perfect? Do you think there is such a thing as a perfect prayer? Last week we looked some characteristics of acceptable prayer, obstacles to prayer and answers to prayer Today we will look at some suggestions on the practices of prayer ( Ps55:17 ) - Says David was a man after God’s own…

Introduction Welcome New Year 2023 Theme: Good Fight, Right Race, Steadfast Faith January Sermon Theme “Pressing Toward the Goal” Concept for Wednesday Night Class Peoples calling in Life Moments of introspective thinking when you ask yourself “Why am I Here”, “What is my purpose in Life” Most, if not…

Lent experiences? Lent is a period of 40 days, excluding Sundays between Ash Wednesday and Easter Represents Jesus’ time in the wilderness Supposed to be a fasting period Lexham Bible Dictionary defines fasting as A ritual of abstaining from food and/or drink for a predetermined period; Biblical basis…

Today, we are concluding a series that we began several weeks ago called Collide. So far, we laid the foundation of standing firm in our faith when the world attempts to convince us of a different value system. Next, we talked about the importance of allowing God to transform our minds, and from there,…

Sermon Outline I. Locusts A. Other Locust Stories B. Amos’s Locust Story II. Locust Attacks A. In Egypt against Israel B. In America against Us C. Satan’s Hordes Are Likened to Locusts ( Revelation 9 ) III. The Locusts Are Defeated A. Through Amos’s Intercession B. Through Christ’s Intercession, Death,…

James has spent chapter one talking about trails and adversity. Living this life is difficult. James points us back to the Word of Truth we talked about last week. 19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce…

Introduction Summarize: There are two distinct peoples that are both in full error before God. Jews and Gentiles have been set against one another since the founding of Israel. A significant part of our repentance of sin is the joining of the church family. Exposition For he himself is our peace, who…

The Marshmallow Test Oh temptation....whew. Some things in life are tough! And we parents are sooooo cruel!!! So, which person in the video are you like? Do you eat it? Nibble on it? Or wait? Sometimes temptation just seems overbearing! This morning we begin a new sermon series titled “Into the Wilderness”…

In today’s message, Jesus shows us that your heart can only be in one place at a time, your eyes can only focus on one thing at a time, and your life can only be devoted to one master at a time. God is a better master because God is a loving Father.

Intro: The missing wallet- i have to build a foundation for keeping up with things. Foundation “But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say? Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a man building a house, who dug…

Good morning and welcome to Dishman Baptist Church. Please open your Bibles with me to Mark 14 , Mark 14 . We’re about to start a protracted scene that will work itself out in four parts or movements that will culminate in the arrest of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. We’ve reached Thursday of Passion…

The Gifts of Christmas Advent Series Sermon 3: The Gift of Joy Today as we get started talking about the next gift of Christmas in our Advent series. So let’s sing together that wonderful Christmas hymn “Hakuna Matata.” What you ask? You don’t know that one? You know, “Hakuna matata , the Lord is come.…

The Gifts of Christmas Advent Series Sermon 1: The Gift of Hope Do you ever feel like Charlie Brown? In the midst of the Christmas decorations that have been up since Halloween, the Christmas songs stuck in your head, the lights and shopping and cookies and parties—do you ever want to just stand up and…

John 8:31-36 Today is the first Sunday of 2022. As such I want to cast a vision for Mills Memorial Baptist Church and what we will study on Sundays in 2023. I think the one thing that is missing in this world, more than anything else is this - TRUTH. Society and this world will try to say that there…

Introduction: This morning we are on the cusp of something that I hope and pray is to be a big deal. I challenged our group at Prayer Meeting this past Wednesday night to join me in praying for revival in our nation. I am asking specifically for us to pray for a movement of God that is bigger than we…

Welcome Good morning and welcome to First community Church, where we worship The Lord in Spirit and in Truth, one verse at a time. What a beautiful week we had and what a beautiful day we are having already. This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. Are you glad? We have so…

Examples Examples we have had many examples in our lives, some good, some maybe not so good. As a disciple of Jesus Christ we have some good instructions and examples we find in the scripture and that is what we are looking at tonight. Bibles speaks: Imitate good examples ( 1Cor11:1 ; Php3:17 ; Heb13:7…

Come Together Pray Introduction: Do you remember that little nursery rhyme where you use your hand. Here is the Church there is the steeple open the doors there are all the people? I'm not sure where that came from or who created that but it is so true the church is the people. Joke: Joe you should be…

1 Timothy 4:1-9 We have been going through a series on Change, entitled the Truth about Change. We started off by realizing the truth that Change is going to Happen, we just need to choose to trust that God is going to work it to good in our lives. To that end, we talked about Romans 12:1-2 , where Paul…

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…