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I. When What You Know Is Too Much Not too much knowledge, but too much to understand. Too much to deal with. When what you know is too much about the mysteries and not enough about the reasons why, you just might get stuck, freeze, go catatonic and get real useless. There becomes an overload of disbelief…

The faith practice of wonder helps us glimpse with surprise just how creative, faithful, good, big, and present God is.

Wonderful Counselor

We are starting our Christmas series this morning. This four-week Christmas sermon series looks at Isaiah 9:6 and the titles given to the Christ child Isaiah prophesied would come. If you have your bible go ahead and open it to Isaiah 9:6 . If you do not have your bible you can follow along in a few…

November 28, 2021

He shall be called wonderful counselor — the Messiah who has restored us and our world to himself by his own authority, and continues to guide his people today by the presence of the Holy Spirit

C.S. Lewis once said, “Christians have talked as if Christianity thinks that sex or the body, or the pleasure we experience within our bodies were bad in themselves. But they are wrong. Christianity is almost the only one of the great religions that throughly approves of the body, which believes that…

Last week we began this message on, “Our Bodies Are not Our Own.” My desire for us is that I want you to see based on God’s Word that Our bodies are not our own because God is ultimately the one who has given them to us. He has uniquely designed each and everyone of us and He has fearfully and wonderfully…

Would you turn with me in your Bible to Psalm chapter 1. As you are making your way there I want to help us see just why the the Book of Psalm is so vital for us to look at as we journey through this life and to prepare us for what is to come. Athanasius who was one of the early church fathers was known…

Ever gaze in WONDER at the beauty of…stars, creation...? Slow down…Look even more intently at the WONDER of Christmas…? SILENT NIGHT — Christmas Eve — Candlelight I need Christmas more than ever this year! How about you? Advent — The wonder of PEACE, JOY, LOVE, GIFT... The PROPHETS — The wonder of the…

Intro; One of the most influential Jazz musicians [ trumpeter ] and vocalist whose career covered a span of 50 years, had one of the most recognizable voices ever heard. That man was Louis Armstrong. Born in New Orleans in 1901, he dropped out of school in the 5th grade and went to work for a Jewish…

The Wonder of HOPE — Jesus is the FULFILLMENT of things to come — FORGIVENESS we need — The one to FOLLOW The Wonder of PEACE — Sheep…who like us need a Shepherd Jesus CALLS us by name — LEADS us out — GATHERS us in — GOES ahead Is it Christmas yet? Anxious — Advent (waiting) — Carols? Today we jump…

Last week we took time to remember all the things that God is to us. -He is a Sovereign God. -He is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. -He is the Father of Mercies. -He is a God of Comfort. Today I want us to stop and take a look at how exactly God is working. 1. God allows trials to come our way!…

Have you ever known someone whose disposition transcended life’s chaos? Someone who possessed a calm composure no matter the conditions around them? Life’s circumstances didn’t dictate how they reacted to difficult situations. What they knew and how they lived came from within... “Jim and Joanna knew…

When it comes to our bodies, there has been a lot of talk and a lot of confusion lately. In our day and age, I feel that there has been a loss of conversation about the body’s goodness, purpose, and end. Today, there are so many people who live life with disliking their bodies and also because of poor…

Introduction 22 Now when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “ Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord ”), 24 and to offer a sacrifice according…

Introduction 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34…

13 For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the…

Experiencing the World Changer 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Today we begin a new series for Advent entitled “Experiencing the World Changer.”…

Matthew 2:1-12 Introduction: How has the path of your life been unfolding? As you have made your way through the many ups and downs that have brought you where you are today, the that last statement of the video is true! “The journey was always leading you to Jesus.” There is a wonder of joy waiting…

Hope - While we long to see God take action, when we have no clue about His view of time! Introduction: Part of the Wonder of Christmas is how God chose to give much needed hope to His people. For years and years before Jesus ever fulfilled the hundreds of prophecies that pointed to His initial arrival,…

The extent a parent would go for their child... Roof of a Burning Building The Christmas story shows us the WONDER of God’s LOVE for us One of the observations we can see is that the Wonder of Christmas is expressed through the fact that God made the first move in loving us... The disciple named John…

Background Peter has been writing to the believers scattered throughout Asia. He has praised God in verse 3 for the wonderful plan of salvation that had given the believers a living hope and a future inheritance that is laid up for all of us in heaven. These believers are currently experiencing trouble…

This Christmas season we have much to adore our Savior for. I want to that love and adoration to intensify and increase this morning as we dwell on the incarnation! 1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son…

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will…