Introduction Christians sometimes rule out certain matters as too big or too small for God. The evil and suffering of the world - including issues such as the inevitability of death, the terror of human existence, and the penalty for sin ( ) - might seem so big that some may not believe that God can…

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received…

Series that will take us to Easter Sunday. FRAN - people will come to church on Easter more than any other time. A lot of people have ideas about Jesus but they are not based on the Bible. They are based on tradition, culture, Christmas stories… movies. 1 Y ou’ll remember, friends, that when I first…

ME: Superficial conversations - How are you? Fine! Good . Okay. I try to answer honestly. But sometimes it feels easier to tell a simple lie. There are some moments, some days, some seasons where when someone asks me how I’m doing I should say, I’m Not okay. I may look fine, talk/act normal. But if I’m…

Faithfulness. We want to take you on a spiritual journey and hopefully by the end of the year you will be able to look back and say look what the Lord has done.... We are spirit beings that have a body. Aim at heaven and you get heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. This…

True and Proper Worship 1. The mission is a statement of what the church is supposed to be doing, while the vision is a snapshot or picture of it. 2. The mission is used for planning where the church is going; the vision is used for communicating where the church is going. 3. A mission statement must…

What does the Bible say about Spiritual Gifts? 1 Now, dear brothers and sisters, regarding your question about the special abilities the Spirit gives us. I don’t want you to misunderstand this. There are many spiritual gifts and the primary way you will learn what they are is to get involved in different…

Living Under Grace 14 Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace. What does it mean to live by Grace? What are the benefits of Grace? What are the misunderstandings? What is the meaning of Grace? Grace is…

Have you ever wondered why so many people lose any joy they might have had in their lives?… even Christians? They start off great but fade … it’s like they sprang a leak and of o their joy leaked out. Tonight, we will look at what Paul says about How we can maintain our joy. Finally, my brothers, rejoice…

God Does Not Change 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. It might be a new year, and a different you, this year we will experience different joys and inevitibly we will also have to deal with different troubles. But there is one thing that will not be different in 2019 or 2010,…

A Christian Research Group in a nationwide survey conducted in the first quarter of 2001 asked this question: “Please describe your goals in life.” The survey found that almost 9 out of 10 adults classified themselves as a “Christian,” by the following definition, “I am personally committed to Jesus…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…

One bright morning as the Fox was following his sharp nose through the wood in search of a bite to eat, he saw a Crow on the limb of a tree overhead. This was by no means the first Crow the Fox had ever seen. What caught his attention this time and made him stop for a second look, was that the lucky…

Introduction Around the time I was finishing college and working on an internship in a church, I had the opportunity to work in a rural church environment. This was in southern Manitoba and on one occasion, I went out to visit one of the farmers that were in the church. I was attempted to show an interest…

One of the things that I have noticed over the years is how quickly people can flip you from being happy to angry. Have you ever noticed that? You could be having a great day… the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming… You feel great. And then some crazy-maker walks into your life and in about…

Where do we start? 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever. What do we tend to fear? The unknown…

A lot of people think that since God designed us with a purpose before they were born that every detail of their lives is preset and that there is nothing they can do about it… we have no choice in the matter. That’s not true. That’s not what the Bible teaches. Yes God has a plan and a purpose for your…

Next to Jesus Christ there was no man that made a greater impact on the word besides the apostle Paul. He wrote most of the New Testament, he established the first churches in the Roman Empire. He was a great man of God. Tonight we're going to get an insight into this man's life, what it takes to make…

3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we…

As we prepare for Easter, I want to kick off a short series on growing in our relationship with Jesus. What is the largest desert in the World? Sahara, Mojave? Some who have been there would say Iraq... What is the largest desert in the world? Antartica Before you think that I’ve lost my mind, a desert…

Failures Why is failure an area of life so hard for us to fight through? How do you get back up after falling down in your spiritual commitments? Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended. Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee,…

Last week, learned how to hear God’s voice and to prepare ourselves to hear God’s voice. You can’t really have a relationship with God if you never hear from him. It has to be a two way communication between you and God. How do you discern God’s voice from the competing voices? How do you know if an…