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Hello again, today we are picking up where we left off last week looking at God’s design for marriage. We already learned that the marriage relationship was created to reflect Christ’s relationship with His Bride the church. We also recognized that it is vital to follow God’s design for marriage so that…

Family Look Like? We need to have the proper perspective to understand how to see our part as a family. After we get our perspective adjusted our Father will give us more focused causes this family will impact. This move of God we are in looks like Family. Our Father is giving a fresh perspective what…

Introduction (Previous Messages in the Colossians Series) ‘For the Faithfulness of Epaphras’ - Col. 1:1-8 In that message, we looked at how because Epaphras was Faithful to serve the LORD, the gentiles there at Colosse gained: Faith in Christ Fellowship with each other A Future home in Heaven Fruit for…

Husbands & Wives Children & Parents Servants & Masters Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you…

What is a woman? This is a question our society is confused on today. With the issues surrounding transgenderism and blurring the lines of gender roles, we have politicians, professors, and everyday people who cannot define what a woman is. Just like being a man is more than biology, being a woman is…

Lesson 11. An Ordered Life Paul adds an ordered life as another response from those who receive God's blessings of salvation. ( Ephesians 5:22-6:9 ) Intro - Review Man’s obligations in response to God’s offer of spiritual blessings: Obligations of the church in response to God’s offer A. Unity B. Righteous…

Blessing and Gratitude Numbers 6:24–26 (ESV) The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. an attitude of gratitude will turn the eyes of your heart toward the giver of all good things help…

Gen 49:5-7; Exo 2:1-10; 6:20; Acts 7:20-22; Heb 11:23-26 In an ideal world filled with sunshine and buttercups, rainbows and butterflies, lemonade and candy, one nice, happy, cookie-cutter family raises children who go on to marry people from other nice, happy, cookie-cutter families, and this story…

Titus 2:4-5 So far, Paul has given Titus guidance for pastors on the island of Crete, and he has given instructions for bad influencers in the church, too. In contrast to their unhealthy teaching, he’s described healthy teaching for older men and women, and all of this teaching centers around the right…

There are striking connections and parallels between a human family and the church. First, the church is a family - a spiritual family. We are brothers and sisters to one another. We reach and teach spiritual children. We enjoy a close relationship with God as our Father. Christ himself said: For whoever…

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the…

Paul enters into his formal closure of the letter. Nowhere else do we find such a lengthy list of personal greetings by Paul indicating the extensive personal friendships he had, even among the churches he had not visited. Were these some friends he had met in other cities, among other churches that…

I have a question for you this morning. Why do you come to church? There are many ways we can phrase this question. Why do we gather? What is the purpose? Who are we as believers in Christ? What is the point? Three years ago, two things happened that brought this church into a position to begin asking…

46 While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him. 48 But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” 49 And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!…

Since television sitcom series began, we have been watching shows about families. The very first sitcom to air on television was a show called Mary Kay and Johnny. It starred a real life married couple. Since then we have watched many television families for many years. From the Huxtables to the Seavers,…

God creates environments for His creation that fosters their flourishing.

3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he…

When Jesus told us to live in the world, but not become a part of it, how did he mean for us to relate to our family? And what about friends? Should we even have non-Christian friends? Can we both love God above all else and also be a light to the little part of the world we live in: our friends and family?

In this present crisis, how should the church behave? Paul, who believed that the church was in the last days, instructs the church to behave like God's ideal family. But what does that look like, and how do we live it out?

He wasted all of it ***Photo: David Lee Edwards & wife Shawna 46 year old from Ashland, KY who never finished high school, unemployed, living is his parents’ house with the water turned off. Borrowed money from a friend to go on a date, bought a lottery ticket, won $73.7m. Could receive that in payments.…

Intro: Today, is Father’s Day “Happy Father’s Day!” I thought I’d start out today by sharing a few precious dad moments.. Moments that would only happen to a dad and only a dad would appreciate… PRECIOUS DAD MOMENT #1 One night a wife found her husband standing over their newborn baby’s crib. Silently…

Last week we began a series called Family Matters. Family is one of the greatest gifts that God has given to us. It is something that we shouldn’t take lightly. We need to love and cherish our family. Today we want to look at family conflict. How many here likes dealing with conflict? Anyone. None of…

1 John 1:1-4 Christianity stands or falls on the person and work of Jesus Christ. Christianity succeeds or fails on whether or not a true and genuine incarnation actually took place in space and time. The options as to who Jesus is and what Jesus did can basically be reduced to four possibilities. This…

Sometimes at these services I feel a little bit like Moses. I need an Aaron to speak for me. :) I find it very interesting how God gives us dreams, glimpses of what he is doing, long before he does it. Years ago I began to observe two trends that really disturbed me. The first trend was that my peers,…

What is the bases for our conduct? 4 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, 5 that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— 6 even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— 7 so that you are not…