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The Art of Rest Marla andI have been in the process of learning how to rest well. It’s very difficult for me to relax, take a guilt free day. The Lord has spoken to us to take a sabbatical / Sabbath this Summer. He also confirmed by prayer through another minister. So.... what is a Sabbath and how do…

Conversations on Holiness I read an interesting book a few years ago written by a Christian comedian named Keith Davenport, titled, Conversations on Holiness . His main point was that conversations among believers about holiness have just … sort of … stopped happening. Think about it… 16 for it is written,…

Intro: Well, here we are… 2021 is behind us and we are looking forward to seeing what God has in store for 2022. The start of the new year is always a time for people to make resolutions… They say things like “New Year, New me!…” or “I am really going to stick to my new years resolutions this time...”…

In the realm of property, Harold Samuel coined the phrase “location, location, location” as the three things that matter. In the realm of discipleship Edward Payson said: “Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing necessary to minister. Pray, therefore, my dear brother, pray, pray,…

Spiritual Economics 101 Inflation. It’s on the news, it’s what many are talking about. My two vehicles, a truck and a van, both get about the same mileage around town- 16 to 18 mpg. And while the van has a 16 gallon tank, the truck has a 27 gallon tank. And I feel it, like you do at the pump. I stopped…

A series concludes What a journey we have been on. looking at the inner workings of the parts of a Christian home, a Christian family. I do not think you will think it is surprise that the Christian family, the Christian home is a struggling institution these days. Tonight we are going to conclude the…

Good morning, Gateway Chapel! Scripture Prayer Find places to give caveats and empathy. It’s been said that the two hardest things to talk about in church are sex and money. And sex is way easier. So today we’re talking about money! Why is that? Why is it so hard to talk about money? Money is powerful.…

Some of you are making plans or you have already made plans on where you will go on vacation this Summer. Many, if not all of you, will get in a car and you will drive. You will put your destination in your google maps or apple maps and you will drive to that destination and enjoy however long your vacation…

Welcome Good morning once again everyone. Today we are going to start a short three week series that will take us up to Advent. (Can you believe that? Advent is right around the corner.) I had been thinking about what we should cover these three weeks because it is kind of a weird time, not really long…

Today, we’re taking a pause between two different sermon series. We completed a series last week and next week we will be beginning a new series, so it’s time to take a pause. Do you take time to rest? When you go on vacation do you plan extended times to rest or do you plan every moment so that when…

Stir Up Expectations Today is the first Sunday in a new Church year, so “Happy New Year!” As the church flips the page on the liturgical calendar revealing a new year, why don’t we make a mental list of what you expect in this year ahead? Will there be a wedding in the family? Are you planning on a fancy…

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 is the last week of this series, “Hooked”. My prayer is that each week you have more of a desire to reach the lost than ever before. Our time on this earth is short and we need to do what we can to be disciple makers. God is wanting to use each of you to go into the world and that is what our text…

“Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.” This phrase is one of our cultural colloquialisms, that you might hear, but often is not correctly attributed. Much like you might hear the phrase, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” The latter is often attributed to Abraham Lincoln totally missing the fact…

The goal of the sermon is that the hearers will take seriously God’s offer of grace. — The problem is that we sometimes make God's gracious offer an excuse for sinning. — The means to the goal is that God invites all sinners and provides them with the needed garment. There are invitations we might be…

God responds to prayer. God is active. I am not exactly sure why but God has hardwired this world to respond to prayer. Prayer changes things! Prayer is a reminder that God is active in our world. This is probably one reason the Psalms are so powerful, or at least they could be. What type of prayers…

Joh (in a vision from Jesus) expects a mindset worthy of the Master, rooted in his own obedience and suffering.E

Parents… have you ever been next to your young child… and you hear that young child begin yelling for your spouse because they want your spouse to - - Tie their shoe? What’s your response? “what....i’m RIGHT.HERE.” Have you ever had a friend of yours post online that they could really use some good vibes…

Big Idea of the Message: God’s glory doesn’t always look the way we expect. Fear Today we feature another common Sunday school story. The nation of Israel has finally been freed from their Egyptian slavery. As they begin to flee Egypt, however, the pharaoh sends his army after them, and the people become…

We’re going to be looking at several texts this week. First, let’s pray. PRAYER Sovereign LORD, Sure Foundation, Mighty Deliverer, Holy God - the names used for you throughout Scripture remind us again and again that you are our Creator God. We need a touch of your healing this morning. We need a word…

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…

Intro: The wage of war around us right now at CPCC. How do we fight? What do we do? Tuesday, June 6, 1944; 6:30 a.m.: 5,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied Troops approached the southern beaches in France for the largest invasion in modern history, what we know now as D-Day. Some of the men who survived…

Last week we talked about discipline, but the discipline is no good if we as parents don’t practice what we preach to our kids. Today, as we conclude this series, I want us to look at discipleship. The Best Discipleship is Modeled at Home. When we look at what the scriptures tell us we need to remember…

Have you ever been on some kind of diet, or been trying to keep up a pattern of working out? Maybe you have tried to learn a new skill that takes a lot of practice, or you have been trying to watch your spending. Usually, we can do okay with things like that for a while until something disrupts our schedule,…