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I titled the message “Tough Love”, but in the case of our text this morning, tough love does not mean what people usually mean by it. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with the terminology Tough Love. This is because often times what people mean by tough love is not really love at all. What many people…

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…

Every week after I preach I think, “Man, I should have mentioned that,” or “I wish I would have hit that point harder and made it more clear.” There’s never time enough to say everything I want to say, but I really should have said more about one phrase in verse 5 of Revelation 1 . Revelation 1:5 (NIV)…

Introduction: What would life be like without family? What would life be like without church family? We need both and it is a major blessing to help us get through the difficulties of this life. {Insert Illustration} We are going to take a short journey through the Book of 2 Thessalonians as we worship…

Right now, we are at a point of growing tired of this Pandemic… It hasn’t gone away like people said it should, but it’s bounced back. Politics has gotten involved and that always messes stuff up. So today, I want us to look at How Faith Make Tough Choices Easier . Think about it. How should you react…

It was her own personal nightmare. Something terrible had happened to her little girl. There was something inside her, something tormenting her, something controlling her. She was under the power of the devil, possessed and afflicted. Her mother couldn't do anything about it. She surely tried. No doubt…

Jesus Christ had finished His work here on earth and ascended to His father in heaven some 18-21 years before this book was written (45-48 AD). The Apostle Paul was already on the scene, was or had spent a year in Antioch and Jerusalem being taught and teaching himself before setting out on his first…

Tough as Nails Today we are starting a new series we are calling “Unbreakable”. In this series we are going to look at the first few chapters of the book of Daniel. For several weeks now, God has been putting Daniel on my mind. Specifically this early part of his life. As I was preparing for this series…

We have not taken an offering in quite some time - there are offering plates in the back of the sanctuary if you feel lead to give financially to the church and to what God is doing here. We stopped passing those plates around when COVID was starting to be a concern, and found that you are all incredibly…

Unbreakable Faith We’ve been looking at the life of Daniel and his friends for the last 4 weeks. They all faced a changing culture that ripped everything they were familiar with away from them then demanded that they change and be like a new culture. Their changing culture demanded that instead of relying…

2021—A Good Year? Everyone knows without me giving out a list what a tough year 2021 has been. Sooner or later everyone has their turn at tough years. The year we (or someone we love) has a disease. The year a parent died. 2021 (and 2020) has been different because most people in the world have had two…

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…

Today we are going to finish up the “Come to Worship” series. This series was inspired by the wise men who traveled to worship the new born king who would rescue all nations, Jesus. They traveled very far simply to worship. They brought gifts and didn’t ask for anything in return. Throughout this series…

The first church had no idea as they faced persecution that there would come a time and day when Christianity would actually be legal. By A. D. 350 the Roman Empire would claim Christ as King and Christians would live for the most part in freedom. Every now and then persecution has come and we see this…

Main Preaching Theme: Let’s embrace God’s agenda for our lives rather than have the attitude that, “It’s my way or not at all” and so miss out on his blessings. Main preaching intention: I believe that people will be inspired to look for what God is doing in their lives and to grab the opportunity that…

READ Text: John 14:16-20 esp vs. 18 I don’t know all of what your year was like. Maybe some of you had a fairly normal year. I know some of you went through extraordinarily DIFFICULT THINGS. And then there were some of you had a very BLESSED year. Whatever kind of year you faced, please know this with…

This Sunday, we look at a few of the things we tend to forget when we are tired or stressed.

Our text begins on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee in Gennesaret (14:34), to which Christ and the disciples had traveled after the events recorded in the Gospel from the last couple Sunday’s. Jesus draws opposition from unbelieving Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem. He then proceeds northwest…

Intro Frankly, I don’t know where to start with this passage today. It has been the hardest passage to deal with for preaching, not because the content is so obscure or confusing, but because it seems so irrelevant and unimportant to us here today in 2021. Why do we care about all these details of ancient…

We are concluding the series, I Promise. We all make promises and if you have lived very long at all, you have broken a promise or had promises broken to you. Promise : from Promittere Pro: Forward Mittere: Send I am going to send this promise into the future when it will be needed. We can’t live life…

After a 6-week break from 1 Peter for our Christmas series, we probably need to get our bearings all over again. 1 Peter is a masterful letter, written by the apostle Peter to the scattered Christians living throughout Asia Minor (modern day Turkey). Peter writes about salvation and assurance and hope,…

Matthew 9:35-10:4 And Jesus was going around all the towns and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness. And when he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were weary and dejected, like sheep…

What is discussed around your table? As you have lunch, dinner and maybe even breakfast what is the topic of conversation? Okay maybe not at your house at meal time but when sitting down for a cup of tea/coffee what happens? In Jesus’ time meals were important social events. We have lost some of this…

Exegetical Point: Jesus has power over creation, and can rescue his people. Homiletic Point: Go with Jesus, Receive Jesus and Seek Jesus on His Terms. Intro Have you ever tried walking on water? It’s good fun to have a go. Maybe next time you’re swimming at Blue Pools you can give it a try! What happens…