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Introduction Good morning and welcome back to Dishman Baptist Church. After a brief hiatus last week, we are so thankful that you are with us this morning. Please open your Bibles back to Mark 12 , Mark 12 . It was bound to happen. In the providence of God and the normal course of expository preaching…

Where, what and who is your identity?

You must make a decision!

Is your political ideology aligned with God’s Word?

Introduction July 20, 1801, devout Baptists in Cheshire, Massachusetts gathered in their Sunday finest with pails of curds for a day of worship and cheese pressing. Cheese wheel was four feet in diameter, thirteen feet in circumference, seventeen inches in height, and weighted 1,235 pounds. Transported…

Timeline of Events The Apostles (33 AD–90 AD) They were largely One-God Jews. After the era of the apostles, who were One-God believers, Greek philosophy began to be merged with Christianity. Post Apostolic Fathers (90–140 AD) They were Greek and Latin Bishops that were well versed in Platonism and brought…

1 Corinthians 6:1–11 (NIV) 1 If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord’s people? 2 Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial…

Turn to and read Acts 8:1-8 . This morning we are going to look at Disruption and Duty. Let’s pray. Disruption Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary defines disruption as the act of rending asunder; the act of bursting and separating . The root word of disruption is disrupt which has come to mean to cause…

In November 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote French scientist Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, concerned that he hadn’t heard from Le Roy since the start of the French Revolution. After asking about Le Roy’s health and events in Paris for the past year, Franklin gives a quick update about the major event in the United…

Introduction: Seeking peace in conflict- unity. Not being fighters or flee-ing Church, family workplace of believers should seek peace and unity among one another Paul's message to the believers in Corinth is a message of unity. As he discusses these gifts that are given by the Holy Spirit, he wants…

Welcome Prayer Opening Two weeks ago we looked at the first part of Chapter 13 and discussed the concept of Church as family. This week we are going to pick up on this thought and talk about why this concept of family was important in the first century and why it is important today. As is usual with…

Introduction : Years ago, I took a class in seminary entitled, Biblical Counseling with Dr Tim Seal. I took it because during my ministry as a Student Pastor at Ellendale Baptist, I felt ill-equipped with the biblical counseling cases that I faced among teens and their parents. I heard from fellow student…

The Church at Sardis Good afternoon! I hope everyone had a great week. Our news this last week has yet again been full of grief and agony. However, there is a story that was hidden amongst all of the evil in our world that I want to address briefly. And the reason is that it deals directly with our message…

Join us today as we discuss the debated topic of euthanasia.

Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say. Obedience to God Paul states that he is confident of Philemon’s obedience. Yet earlier, Paul had stated clearly that he was not approaching Philemon as an apostle to be obeyed, but as a fellow worker…

State: The three directives we have been given so far about dealing with hardship, struggle or opposition are: 1) Ask God to reveal any thing that you need to cast off and no longer be associated with: People Activities 2) Deal with any active sin, unconfessed sin, unforgiveness (be working on it) 3)…

Intro: Imagine you arrive at church today and you notice a large amount of people coming up to Pastor Stuart and offering their congrats. You begin to panic in your mind because maybe you missed an announcement. Maybe you were not listening in your previous conversation with him. You decide not to be…

Introduction Today we are continuing our studies into the Seven Churches in Revelation. We’d looked at the various ways to examine these churches: Historically Practically Chronologically The best use for us today is looking at them in the practical sense. In that the characteristics of these churches…

This past Monday and Tuesday Pastor Shawn and I went to the annual meeting of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. We go to this every year, and always have a great time, but this time we were joined by Brandon Shull, Drew Broughton and Brian Kelly. This morning we want to share what the Lord…

Intro Our passage for this morning is one that calls us to make a commitment in our lives. It is one that asks us, as reader of God’s holy word to answer a question. The question we must ask ourselves through our text this morning is who’s side are you on? If we think of this along the lines of a sports…

Review: 1. Identifying the Inheritance of the Kingdom Identified God’s Kingdom Explained the Inheritance of God’s Kingdom 2. Identifying the Heirs of the Redemptive Kingdom Who Will and Will not Inherit the Kingdom? Paul gives us a list of 10 which is not comprehensive but specific! The first five in…

Video: Old Rugged Cross Thank you for joining Faith Vision Christian Ministries Faith Vision i s a Christian church, based on the Word of God. We are a training ground for all things Jesus Christ. We are loving God , Loving People living by faith Thank you for joining us today , Please set everything…

Introduction: Astronomers tell us that the light from a star takes years to reach the earth. So when a star dies it could be years before we would ever know it becasue the light form the star would keep pouring down onto the earth for years. The church at Sardis was like that. On the outside everything…

Does this sound familiar: “"If you're in a dispute with another party and you can't seem to work things out, don't take the law into your own hands; you take 'em to court," This was the tagline stated by the host of the courtroom reality show in the 80-90’s called the People’s Court. Some of you will…