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Today is Resurrection Sunday. Culturally today is - Easter! Today is the day that we celebrate that our King has risen from the dead - and all of the wonderful things that means for us. Today - people across the world will celebrate Easter. Culturally we will celebrate with egg hunts and Easter bunnies,…

Secular - George came home from University in tears. "Mom, am I adopted?" "No of course not!", replied his mother. "Why would you think such a thing?" George showed her his genealogy DNA test results. No match for any of his relatives, and strong matches for a family who lived the other side of the city.…

How do you view suffering? How does God view our suffering? A means to show his glory. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with…

2 Corinthians 2:12-3:18 12 Now when I arrived in Troas to proclaim the gospel of Christ, even though the Lord had opened a door of opportunity for me, 13 I had no relief in my spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and set out for Macedonia. 14 But thanks be…

2 Corinthians 3:1-18 Romans 12:1-2 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you…

2 Corinthians 3 Good morning church! Let me ask you. Have you ever had a day all planned out perfectly, and it didn’t exactly go as you hoped it would go? Well that’s how this past week went, up to and including yesterday. I had a great plan for yesterday, and among other things our church website went…

Introduction What happens when we accept Jesus Christ into our life? What changes about us? Some may say Some things changed Most things changed Everything changed In reality only one thing changed. We have a new Identity. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved…

Shape View of End Times While this episode covers Acts 2:1-21 , the emphasis is on vv. 14-21. The first thirteen verses are only summarized with respect to what they describe and its biblical-theological significance. Acts 2:14-21 takes us back to the New Covenant idea of the Old Testament. We will talk…

Our Scripture lesson this morning is from 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 : But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the…

Fake, false, forgery What is the best way to tell is something is fake, false or a forgery? Yep you got it, you need to know the real thing, study the real thing so that if anyone presents anything else you would know it. Our passage Paul overcomes the peddlers of fake, false gospel (2Cor2:17) in a beautiful…

I want to talk about where our strength comes from… where our qualifications or sufficiency comes from. It’s easy to get caught up in thinking that we are self sufficient. Our sufficiency is from God Look at what Paul said. 5 It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification…

The Significance of Humility 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…

Where do we start? 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 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. What do we tend to fear? The unknown…

My ministry is determined by my shape . What God made you to be determines what he intends to do. You will understand the purpose you have been made for, you will understand the kind of person you are. This is the secret to knowing God’s will for your life. God would not give us inborn talents and temperaments,…

A New Life 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. What is the New Life? New life is ++ A life impacted by the Spirit ++A life of Faith…

Intro: Prayer: 14 When the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. 15 Then he said to them, “I have fervently desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. 16 For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” 17 Then he took a cup,…

9 Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from…

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received…

Theme: Authority over the Ungodly Thoughts Word for the Week is Spiritual Warfare: The struggle against the forces of evil, which is a constant feature of the life of faith. Scripture locates the origins of spiritual warfare in the rebellion of Satan and his angels against God and affirms the hope of…

Foundations are the most important thing yet often unseen part of any ediface. If the foundation of a building is not sound then the building will collapse when placed under stress. But if the foundations is sound then the building can withstand extreme stress. Cultures have foundations. These are the…

It is the two contrasts Paul writes of in Romans 7:6 – old as opposed to new, Spirit as opposed to letter, that help us understand that Paul is talking in terms of the new covenant, and the implications are astounding!

Intro Last week we began looking at Romans chapter 12. I spoke from this chapter at high school camp earlier this year where our theme for the week was why not now. The idea was, as high school students. Why not live your life of Christ now. This idea continues to apply to each of us, no matter our age.…

Titus 1-2 Good morning church! We are starting a short little letter this morning by the name of Titus. Just so you are aware, we will move through this book quickly as much of the material is similar to what we saw in 1 and 2 Timothy. Titus 1:1–4 (NKJV) 1 Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of…

In 2005 Christian Smith’s book “Soul Searching” introduced the term Moralistic Therapeutic Deisim. Research done by National Study of Youth&Religion to identify the insight of American youth into religion (including christianity) Core tenet of MTD 1. "A god exists who created and ordered the world and…