Series: Renewing Our Relationship with God Sermon: Responding to God’s Love Scripture: Various Renewing our relationship with God should be first on our list of priorities for a new year. The first task in renewing our relationship is accepting that God loves us, and the prime example of His love is…

The Dilemma of Belief. Have you ever had those moments when you wondered, “Is this really true?” Maybe life has gotten difficult. Maybe you have come to the Derailment of your hopes and dreams like Joseph, Mary’s husband, when he found out that his betrothed bride was pregnant after all his time and…

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…

Six Components to Salvation Pursuing Pursuing-Purpose of the Law Cornelius is pursuing God. - a devote man and one who feared God: He trusted the God of Isreal and followed Jewish practices. It was obvious to all that his devotion was sincere. God answered his prayer; Cornelius' pursuit was being fulfilled…

We are God's property purchased and will be collected in what everstate we are found. How do you want to present yourself back to you Father.

Introduction Last week we looked at the parable of the soils. My belief is that most of the people attending church in this country are 3rd soil people. Those are folks who Jesus described as... 14 And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked…

Today we are looking at John 6:16-21 . This is the third part in a Mini-series on Fear which we have been doing together. Jesus used the situation of a storm to teach His disciples about dealing with Fear. Let’s look this passage together. When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, where…

LESSON TWO Trust in God Text 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. 2 And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, 3 Get thee hence,…

Intro Text - John 6.66-70 66 From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. 67 Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?” 68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 Also we have come to believe and…

Intro: I realize that there is a show titled, “Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. The title this morning does not come from that show, but I borrowed from another message is preached years ago. I’m not here this morning to talk about fact or fiction, but to go beyond the basic idea of belief in order to…

Don't make Jesus Lord of your life just because He feeds you! He knows how fickle people are - today he may be King, and tomorrow a goat. Jon goes over what happened after Jesus preached a controversial sermon at Capaernum and many of his followers stop following him. Does Simon Peter put his foot in his mouth again, or win the day? Listen this week to find out.

Add To Your Faith Virtue Annotation 1 Review: .....that through these Grace and peace, His Divine power all things that pertain to life and godliness glory and virtue, exceeding great and precious promises 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you…

Belief: An opinion of judgment in which a person is fully persuaded. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.…

Getting Closer to Christ (Sermon with Lord's Supper) John 12:1-8 Sermon by Rick Crandall Grayson Baptist Church - Dec. 29, 2013 *Kevin Higgins asks: "Do you ever feel distant from God? Wish you were closer to Him?" Church, you are in good company. In Psalm 13:1, King David cried out these questions to…

Discussion: Read John 6:47-68 What did Jesus mean about the manna the fathers ate? Why did Jesus compare Himself to the bread that gave eternal life? Your Bible is actually a library of Books! The Origin of the Old Testament Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are…

Welcome Good Morning! I’d like to welcome you all to the first gathering of Ephesus Baptist Church in this decade, our first gathering of 2020! I hope your new year is off to a great start! We survived Christmas and New Year’s as we journeyed another time around the sun! I am hoping the 2020’s will be…

Intro Text - John 3.3-8 3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” 5 Jesus answered, “Most…

What does it mean to ‘Follow Jesus’? I encourage you to take a moment to think about that question. In church, we sometimes talk about following Jesus, but what does that mean? Specifically, we spent time looking at Luke 9:23 . ​ Luke 9:23 NIV Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple…

The Great Controversy 9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. The tour group stood on stones where Jesus might have stood when He preached the sermon recorded in John 6 . That day…

This passage covers the arrest of Jesus and Peter’s denial.

I pick our title from a book that I have; which touches upon the issue of suffering. Herbert Lockyer became well known in Christian circles when he wrote the “ALL series” volumes. I have a few of them, which cover all the men of the bible, all the promises of the bible, all the messianic prophecies of…

Confidence in and commitment to God and Jesus Christ. These attitudes remain sure even though the objects of faith are unseen. True faith is seen in obedient action, love and continuing good works.

The Bible There are 66 books in the Bible; 39 Old Testament, 27 New Testament. 40 different authors. (8 possibly 9 authors New Testament) Books were written within a roughly 1500 year span. ( 1400 BC -100 AD) New Testament has four genres; The Gospel, Acts of the apostles, the epistles, apocalypse. The…

John 6:1-21 ©January 17th, 2021 by Rev. Rick Goettsche SERIES: John Our church has hosted many concerts for Christian artists through the years. Our first concert was back in 2008, with Tenth Avenue North. We had the bright idea that we should invite local youth groups to show up early, meet at the church,…