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Sin Has no Power Here Do you feel like your sin is overpowering? Sin is an affliction to the human spirit. It is mankind’s greatest enemy, one that we all willingly choose to follow of our own ambition. It has a hold on us from the moment we are born. Sin tries to keep us down. Sin wants to make you…

Riding Line In the 1800’s and early 1900’s men on ranches would spend a lot of time riding line. What they did doing this was to go out every day and ride the boundary line of the ranch. While doing this they were looking for cattle that either drifted onto their side and push them off, and look for…

Do right when done wrong

4 Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled, and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth. 1 And David said, “Is there still…

1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. 3 For we who…

Oracles Sermons, Visions Our Country Prophet, Amos. A shepherd and a gatherer of sycamore fruit (Amo7:14-15). God’s unlikely prophet to proclaim judgment on many nations and on God’s people, especially Israel (Northern Kingdom) A few reminders before returning to the survey. The sections of the book:…

33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” 35 “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” 36 For from him and through him and…

Big Idea of the Message : The purpose of God is to bring all things together under Christ. God’s Purpose (v. 9-10) Everyone like to have a purpose in life - be it family, employment, financial or spiritual; Then life happens and as our dreams fade so goes also our purpose and with that we begin to feel…

Future Restoration 35 And Jesus was going through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. Observe the goodness of His mission - the constant provision of help and hope Preaching the…

Philippians 3:7-14 Purpose is a very wonderful thing. Without purpose, a person life is without direction and ultimately without hope. When one loses hope then they lose reason for living. We live in a society today that is losing its purpose. There is a real problem, not only in America but in many…

Intro We will follow our usual pattern of working our way through the passage. There are two main pictures here, the scene on the boat, and the scene between Jesus & Peter. Then there’s the closing verse to finish the book off! Jesus Brings Fruitfulness A Picture of Ministry As per usual in the book…

Main Theme Agents of Restoration: The Spirit-filled church imparts what it has The Fourfold Gospel of Jesus According to the Christian and Missionary Alliance, Jesus is: Savior 12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”…

James closes this letter in a non-typical way... James has modeled throughout his letter the mandate he gives his readers at the end of his letter! Systematically James has challenged the saints in their personal faith in the complete and finished work of Jesus Christ. This faith should not and cannot…

Jesus uses this parable to convey the reversals of God’s kingdom. The rich man is defined by the quality of his clothes and the abundance of food. Purple is the color of royalty – difficult to create; expensive. Fine linen – probably expensive imported Egyptian cloth. Feasted sumptuously every day, likely…

Recognition of sin Respect of and for God Retributive Theology Remorse Reunion

Last week we saw how we were created in the image of God. This being the rational faculty of the human soul: How we think, how we reason. How God has given us attributes similar to His so we can better understand and comprehend Him. We also looked at the multiple ways in which the culture gives no thought…

Introduction Good morning once again. It’s great to see you all. Go ahead and open your Bible to the book of Nehemiah chapter 3. Last week I began a walk through the book of Nehemiah as he traveled to Jerusalem, with the king’s permission, to rebuild the city walls and gates of the city. Just to recap…

Jesus tells this parable to convey the cost of discipleship. This parable about a dishonest manager who had one admirable quality, persistence. The manager squandered the property of the rich man But, he had the audacity to cover it up for his own gain. He literally stole property of the rich man to…

The prophet Elijah had a moment of losing faith when he thought his whole world was falling apart. God restores Elijah’s faith; God can restore our faith too.

Restoration and Resurrection Intro This sermon series has been near and dear to my heart. We have one more week of this series before we take a break for Christmas and begin John in January. Back in 2013, I was blessed to get and visit England and Scotland. On of my favorite parts of this trip was to…

Lost in our Sorrow During the times in our lives when distress causes us to lose our way, God often places people in our lives to ensure we know He is continually there for us. We often are only looking out for the things that we need. We work daily to provide for our families and then when our families…

We have a question? (I have a question slide inserted here) _________________________________________________________ Questions, we all have them, sometimes questions and answers lead to more questions, but hopefully questions lead to answers and answers to understanding and understanding to application.…

I have to start today by telling you a story about my wife, Sonia. She doesn’t know I’m doing this, but trust me, it’s a good story. This study in Nehemiah began as a heart longing in Sonia. It was at the beginning of the pandemic and she sensed that God might be wanting us to do a sermon series or some…

An Apostles heart Paul lived and spoke intentionally. He acted out of love in all things and somethings were hard things to address (1Cor5:1-5) but out of love things need to be addressed. May we paint a picture of the apostles heart and discipline then get to the passage before us this morning. The…