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Break up your fallow ground. It is time for a new season of growth spiritualy. Apologies for the audio quality. It somehow switch to the computer microphone instead of the line input. (Apologies about the audio this week. For some reason the laptop mic was being used instead of the input from the sound system.)

Heb 12:12-14 Finish Well Reading Heb 12:7-14 7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9…

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him…

Announcements Are there any announcements? Potluck will be on June 4, to celebrate Juan and Emily and their next adventure. Soon, we hope to have dirt hauled in and plant grass where the bushes were. Introduction Good morning and welcome to FCC. We are glad that you have joined us today here in the sanctuary…

Ephesians 4:29-32 We have been looking at The Great Life. The Great Life is the life of the Spiritual Man. A life that is continually yielded to the Holy Spirit of God. We looked last week at the seventh ministry of the Holy Spirit, the Filling of the Holy Spirit, and we saw that entails our yielding…

A new year begins tomorrow, one of my favorite cartoons about New Years day is this one from 2003: Ziggy 2003. Today, as we have in previous years, we’re going to spend time in prayer. I want to take the time I usually have to pray for each one of you, individually or as a family. That’s what we’re going…

I know I said we were going to be doing a biographical study on David, but I have really been struggling with that, and I truly fell God pointing me in another direction, and because of that I have to change my direction. I do apologize for the inconsistency of the last few messages, I believe I was…

Good morning! It is an honor to be bringing the word this morning. I’m grateful for to give Pastor John a break after this last series! And what a series it was! Pastor John spent seven weeks walking us through seven different ways that we sabotage our faith. We saw how to acknowledge the ways we sabotage…

Hebrews 12:3-13:25 Good morning church! We are going to try to move a bit more rapidly through our remaining section of Hebrews. But before we do, we have some important business to take care of. We have a baby dedication this morning. This is one of my absolute favorite things to do as your pastor,…

So as you can see from the slide - I decided that we will just keep going in our Bibles... Breaking into 1 Kings today. I assume that most people haven’t spent too much TIME in 1 Kings... And so I think it will good for us to not only learn the history behind it…the NARRATIVE behind it... But also of…

What do you do when the world is constantly barraging you with threats or ridiculing you because of what you believe? What about when such hostility comes from those who are considered religious? Those who supposedly know the Word of God, who who grew up in the church? How do you handle that? How do…

Jonah and the Great Commission, Part 2: Salvation Belongs to the Lord God responds to repentance Repentance Restores Restored = Revival As we saw last week, Jonah, after being called to preach to the people of Nineveh, tried to avoid the job and instead went in the other direction. Jonah didn't want…

1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. 3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature,…

11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus…

OK - a quick pop quiz - you can phone a friend, or chat to the person next to you, let’s see how much we have remembered from previous weeks: BLANK is Holy, we are not. God is Holy, we are not. BLANK makes Holiness possible. Christ makes Holiness possible. Holiness begins with BLANK and BLANK. Holiness…

Ephesians 2:1-9 Today we continue our series on the Truth about Forgiveness. If we are going to talk about forgiveness we have to come to an understanding of what it is we are being asked to do. If you asked three people what forgiveness you might very well get three answers. But the truth is I don’t…

Welcome to Heartland Christian Church. if this is your first time here we are happy to have you. Let’s get started. Please Stand. Somebody give him thanks for something He is or does. Today we’ll be reading Psalm 51 . Psalm 51 says: To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came…

Why do we come to church? Some of us come because it socially accepted to come to church. Others come because they feel guilty if they don’t come to church. Still others come because they gain something by coming. Still others come because they want to share something. I come to church because you pay…

One of the primary functions of the US Forrest Service is to conduct what are called Controlled Burns. The national geographic says - Controlled burning, also known as prescribed burning, involves setting planned fires to maintain the health of a forest. These burns are scheduled for a time when the…

The Last Will Be First I came across this cute post-Christmas story the other day and thought I should share it with you. One year after Christmas a pastor was cleaning up decorations when he noticed that the baby Jesus was missing from the nativity scene. Just about that time a little boy came walking…

There is a wonderful encouragement that we read about of enduring faith in Hebrews chapter 10:35-39. 35 Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 37 For, “Yet a…

Unbreakable When Your World Is Shaken Up Thriving No Matter What They Throw at You We’re going to start this journey with just three simple suggestions today. We’ll get into the actual life of Daniel next week. This sets up the theme for the entire series. First suggestion when your life is thrown into…

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Ephesians 5:17–20 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is . And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks…

This is our 3rd week in the teaching portion of our EMPTY acronym, our flyover of the New Testament. It’s a 40,000 foot flyover, but its giving us a sense of the overarching message of redemption and seeing the connections of the New Testament back to the Old, and the flow of the story from Genesis on.…