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Play Video - “Whatever” This year is a new year and we need to focus on what can I do for God to change the world around me. How do I do that? How do I not let the past determine who I am going to be in Christ. If you have your Bibles, I want us to look at what the Apostle Paul told us. It is found in…

Philippians 3:7-14 7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And…

Many people are unwilling to experience the new things God is trying to do in their lives because of the baggage that keeps them longing for the past. When we wonder, "what if" or "if only," we rob ourselves of the fresh work of God within us that can take us places we cannot imagine.

Happy New Year, church family! Like the ocean’s tide, 2023 has receded and ready or not, 2024 has arrived. It’s customary for us to mark the start of a new year by both looking back while simultaneously looking forward. We wonder where a year has gone, or the years for that matter. Believe it or not,…

We will never forget! 9/11 Was nearly 22 years ago. Have we forgotten? What happens when we forget? We lose the value of the past. Why is it so easy to forget from generation to generation? Our culture has taught us to think that we are the center of our own universe. Your struggles, your desires, your…

Intro: Why are you here this morning? ( don’t answer out loud ) How you answer this Q will reveal to you where your fire/zeal is & Where the fire/zeal has fizzled or been abandoned. You are not alone here: Over the next several weeks we are going to dive into seven letters to seven churches that lived…

Our Scripture lesson this morning is from Deuteronomy 4:9-14 : “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children— how on the…

TOMORROW… Is shrouded in the unknown masked by uncertainty It holds anticipated joy, ease, and freshness for some While for others Sorrow, difficulty or or mundane For some it brings fear yet for others it offers HOPE… Why? I would submit to you today that tomorrow is best approached by our remembering……

Introduction 1 At that time Merodach-Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered. 2 And Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his treasures—the silver and gold, the spices and precious…

New Years Resolutions Lose weight, be taller, making more money, being nicer, getting in shape, treating our spouse better. resolutions that we want about ourselves resolutions that we want for others Scrooge had a Christmas resolution Scrooge was visited by 3 spirits past, present, and future Charles…

Memorial Day “Never Forget” This weekend we observe Memorial Day. We don’t celebrate it, we observe it. People died for our freedom. We don’t celebrate their death, we observe that day and remember their sacrifice for us. A sacrifice is not something to celebrate as much as it is something to appreciate.…

This Sunday, we look at a few of the things we tend to forget when we are tired or stressed.

The people here were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, since they received the word with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord ,’ for they will all know me, from the least…

Why Should I Forgive and Forget? Rev. Thomas A. West, Sr March 10, 2024 Matthew 18:21-35 The other day I saw an advertisement for Karate Lessons, and it made me think about the different lessons people usually take (Golf Lessons, Piano Lessons, Gun Safety Lessons, etc.) But I’ve never seen an advertisement…

Hosea 4:2–3 2 You make vows and break them; you kill and steal and commit adultery. There is violence everywhere— one murder after another. 3 That is why your land is in mourning, and everyone is wasting away. Even the wild animals, the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea are disappearing. Scripture…

For the last several years I have gotten up super early on Easter to think about how many people so easily awake to forget about Jesus and what He has done for us. Our society has not helped with this over the years. It is so easy to put things on our schedule on Sunday’s or just to sleep in on a Sunday…

The only way for Jesus to completely take away the guilt of our sin was for Jesus to become completely like us in every way; sometimes we forget what it means that Jesus has become our brother.

This sermon recaps the Marching Orders series up to this point. The goal is that we can apply the messages and not forget what we have learned.

Sometimes we try so hard to make Christmas feel special that forget the ways in which Christmas is also ordinary; God did something special when Jesus was born at Christmas, but it came into an ordinary world in an ordinary way.

I Have Engraved You on the Palms of My Hands Isaiah 49:8–16 (ESV) 8 Thus says the Lord: “In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages, 9 saying to the…

Intro Forget it! That can be descriptive, or prescriptive. There are many things we want to forget, or really should forget, that seem to hang us up. When we fixate on those things I hope we have a friend who comes along beside us and in love tells us, “For get it! Move on!” When it comes to things we…

Evening 7 May 2023

Philippians 3:12-17 We started last week a new short series entitled “Coffee Mug Christianity: Bringing Clarity to Cliches.” Today we are going to a verse which has become cliche in the Christian world. In the context of chapter 3, Paul is warning the church at Philippi about false teachers…He says beware…

Reflections on Psalm 78 We are going to spend a few weeks on Psalm 78 , the second-longest Psalm in the Bible. In case you don’t know, Psalm 119 is the longest Psalm, with 22 sections of about 8 verses each, making 176 verses. Each of those sections is in alphabetical order, with every line in the section…