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Intro I introduced a few weeks back as were were in the book of Luke seeing Jesus confronting the Pharisees and the Lawyers a couple of questions for us. How is your heart? What is happening with your soul? The lawyers and the Pharisees were both following the rules over following God. They did not recognize…

Intro The psychology instructor had just finished a lecture on mental health and was giving an oral quiz. Speaking specifically about manic depression, she asked, “How would you diagnose a patient who walks back and forth screaming at the top of his lungs one minute, then sits in a chair weeping uncontrollably…

Good morning! If I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting you yet....my name is John and I serve as one of the pastors here at Mission Church. Our mission and vision is to partner with God to see His Kingdom come in Las Vegas as it is in heaven.....And.....we are working to accomplish this goal by pursuing…

Intro If we haven’t met... Hear, love, and obey... Connect cards... Helpful tool for us to get to know you, answer questions, and pray for you. Introduce Mike Good morning, Mike! Mike Paterson - one of the missionaries we support, former elder of Gateway... Mike is here to continue our sermon series…

Intro: We are about to start the Christmas season. Barb and I just bought a Koala Christmas decoration this week. The shops want everyone thinking about lights, decorations, and gifts. Within churches we think of Christmas far differently. We know that Christmas is about the birth of our Saviour. Theme:…

Raise your hand if you’ve heard any of these sayings before. First, raise your hand if you’ve heard, “God never gives you more than you can handle.” Now, keep your hands raised if you believe it. Second, raise your hand if you’ve heard, “God helps those who help themselves.” Now, keep your hands raised…

Be It Resolved... Introduction Good morning and Happy New Year to you. It’s so good to have you here with us. This morning’s message will be a little different. I want to open the New Year by challenging you to long for the Lord. Go ahead and open your Bibles to Psalm 42 and 43. We’re going to take a…

To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. 1 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where…

Big Idea of the Week: Because trusting in God can be difficult, the psalmist needed to accept his deep need for God’s presence in all that he did. Desire (v. 1-4) Life is full of struggles, challenges, anxiety, stress, depression and the list could go on and on; 33 These things I have spoken to you,…

Many years ago I began a sales career. I needed few things: appropriate attire, a respectable looking automobile, and a good map. Thomas Brothers’ Maps, were in my opinion, the best. Nowadays many of use the GPS Maps App on our smartphones. The other day I had an occasion to use mine. I was meeting a…

Getting Out of Getting Stuck Bobbi and I returned from our end of February-March 2020 cruise vacation to have the nation locked down the following Monday. Although our 50th anniversary was in June of 2021, we weren’t able to take our celebratory cruise vacation until a couple months after, in the relative…

What is Hope? HOPE, n . [The primary sense is to extend, to reach forward.] A desire of some good, accompanied will at least a sight expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable. Hope differs from wish and desire in this, that it implies some expectation of obtaining the good desired,…

Introduction We have now competed reading through the first book of the Psalms. As a reminder, or for those of you who have missed the first sermon, we are going to take a look at the Psalms through a different lens than what we have been use to reading the Psalms. The Five books of Psalms Arrangements…

Prayer is not only the church’s way of expressing petitions to God; it is also God’s way of petitioning our hearts to receive his grace.

Camping at Word of Life all next week. Tim Strait from Harmony Baptist in Middletown will be preaching for me the next Sunday the 8th and the following Sunday the 15th. I will be back on the 15th though…just not preaching. So, I’ll see you then. Intro Have you ever felt like God was distant or maybe…

Welcome Good morning everyone, and to anyone listening online welcome as well! We are continuing on in our “How To” series and picking up with the topic of “How to hope in God.” Hoping in God is not always the easiest thing to do in our life. There are countless tragedies that happen in our personal…

Week 3 of Detox We are coming out of Summer where we have been on vacations and conferences, and traveling… During the Summer people stop doing things they should be doing like church attendance, QT, eating healthy, all sorts of stuff. We are coming into the Fall… the season of the Harvest. To get ready…

NOTE: This is a manuscript, and not a transcript of this message. The actual presentation of the message differed from the manuscript through the leading of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it is possible, and even likely that there is material in this manuscript that was not included in the live presentation…

How do we deal with isolation of Covid? 1 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”…

Our relationship with Christ is built on faith. Faith that there is a God, that God became man, died for us, rose, and wants to give us new life too. Yet as we go about our daily lives, inevitably we encounter doubts and problems. 1 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, we come before you today with Joy in our hearts. Joy for being in this space together. Joy for being able to be together. And joy for the day itself which represents the day in which our new lives can begin. We thank you and praise you this day for all these things…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, on this day that we celebrate Christ’s arrival in Jerusalem and immediately move to his passion, we ask that you help us to open our hearts, minds and spirits to your still speaking voice above the din of all other voices in our hearts, minds, and spirits so that…

Let us pray…God, may the words of my mouth, the meditations of all of our hearts, and the willingness of our spirits be pleasing unto you this day. Today’s time of reflection on this Psalm is going to be a bit different for us. I know I typically spend time relating the scripture to our lives but I want…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, as we gather this day, we are reminded that your love knows no limits and no bounds. Help us in this time to remember and reflect on this idea so that we can find comfort and peace in a time that is out of our control, and remind us that your time is perfect. Now,…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, on this first Sunday in Lent, we are standing at the stream of life and longing for your presence amongst us in this time that seems to be a never ending period of grief, despair, sorrow, and sadness. We are ready to celebrate and be able to praise you once again.…