BEING LIKE CHRIST

Dealing With Family Stress II Timothy 1:1- 12 1 Paul , an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, 2 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 3 I thank God, whom I serve from…

Suffering is the issue of life that causes us to miss understand God the most. So many people fail to understand how God works in their lives when they suffer. The hardest counseling issue is often helping people see God’s goodness when they suffer. This passage encourages us by telling us how God is working in our good and bad times for our good.

Introduction What is the meaning of life? A question that has been asked for generations and millennia. Why are were here on earth and what’s the point of living? What’s is the point of our existence? Now, this is deep stuff for a Sunday evening - and these are philosophical questions, and many of these…

Introduction Our next topic in this series on key Christian Doctrine is “Sanctification” or being conformed to be more like Christ. Some denominations out there state that the way that you become more like Christ is by doing works or actions in order to cancel out bad things or actions. Almost as though…

Before Corona I pointed out an old abandoned building to my kids the other day. “Guys, that’s what they used to call a school. Kids would go there and do their ‘school-work’ and then come home when they were done.” They laughed and laughed. Or rolled their eyes, I forget. Let’s talk about the glory days.…

What does it mean to be Christlike? That is one of the expressly stated goals of our church- at Faith Baptist Church one of our objectives is to draw believers unto Christlikeness. So what does it mean to be Christlike? Two categories of Christlikeness The Character of His Life The Content of His Living…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Admiral Richard Byrd, the famous polar explorer, had adventures of being lost and then found that are amazing. In his book Alone, he tells of being alone for six months in his little shack in 1934 living through a long Antartic winter. Every day he would take a walk, but he would…

One of the big new concerns in the church today is the concern to " market the church". The idea is that God's people need to better market their product - salvation. There are some positive benefits from these surveys and observations. These folks are right that we need to get the gospel message before…

Genuine Christians Practice Christlikeness

Can you relate with this situation? You are out on door to door evangelism. You are walking down a sidewalk up to the front door of the next house in line and as you head up to the door you get a sinking feeling in your stomach. What are you thinking in the back of your mind? “I hope no one answers the…

An encounter with Christ not only alters eternity, but also our temporal relationships.

From 1 Peter 3:8-12, we learn Christlike attitudes to shape our relationships with believers, Christlike behaviors and speech to impact those outside the faith, and what it means to be truly blessed by God: to enjoy a deep-seated knowledge of his pleasure and presence!

When Jesus talked about himself being lifted up, he wasn't speaking of our praise and adoration but, His cross. I believe that He would have us become like Him; not our will but, His be done. Our Christlikness is the ultimate glory that we can give him.

INTRODUCTION: ILLUSTRATION: I have some friends that I meet - who love helping people. They have a passion for it. Especially the hurting. They are doers and givers It was just a little while back … I saw on facebook them working at food center where they put together boxes for the needy. ILLUSTRATION:…

HOW TO BECOME A FRIEND OF GOD

Spiritual growth means responding like Christ to those we dislike

Introduction On Mother’s Day we read a comic that depicts what many think of when we talk about submission in marriage. Let me read the comic again. http://adam4d.com/wives-husbands/ - COMIC = opening illustration. DOES NOT: When our world hears that a wife is to submit to her husband, this is what they…

Home School Finished a month of home schooling! Parents, how y’all doing? Surviving? Maybe I should ask the kids, how are your parents surviving? How are they doing as assistant teachers? Assistant to the teacher? A certain kind of kid does awesome in this environment. Everyone has different learning…

INTRODUCTION: Have you ever considered how your Bible is put together? Is it a topical index on life issues? That is – you have your book on parenting, you have your book on worship, you have your book on anger, you have your book on success. I think when we ask it that way, we realize our Bibles are…

In 1966 I joined Operation Mobilization for a year of ministry in France, but spent two years in India instead. While in London that summer, at the one-month OM orientation, I volunteered to work on a clean-up crew late one night. Around 12:30am I was sweeping the front steps of the Conference Centre…

This is the audio portion of Unit 1 Day 3 as Pastor Kevin Sullivan takes us through the questions and give us insight on some of the answers that can help us in our walk with Christ from the Series: Changed into His Image

Introduction (vs. 1-2) One of the most popular teachings in the New Testament is the Sermon on the Mount that Jesus delivered shortly after calling the disciples and beginning His earthly ministry. One part of the Sermon on the Mount is called the Beatitudes. The word beatitude means any declaration…

Introduction Galatians chapter five gives us a great lesson on how the concept of the Trinity is played out. We see in Galatians 5:13 that God the Father calls us. We see in Galatians 5:24 that the God the Son died for us. We see in Galatians 5:16-23 that God the Spirit dwells within us. In our scope…