Health Quiz - How many here have ever broken a bone? How many here have ever had stitches? 30 or more stitches? How many have cut yourself? Anyone wounded in combat? Talk about a different type of wound… our hidden emotional wounds. What are our hidden wounds? memories, resentments, regrets, worries,…

Over the years I have had the pleasure of getting to know singer and songwriter Danny Oertli. One of the things I have noticed about many of the songs he writes is that they stem from life events he has gone through. When you understand the events and details of his life you have a new appreciation for…

Great Reasons for Christian Gratitude Philippians 1:1-8 Sermon by Rick Crandall Grayson Baptist Church - Nov. 24, 2013 SPECIAL MUSIC: "Give Thanks" by Henry Smith INTRODUCTION: *The first time I ever heard that song was during a mission trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1997. We were on the deck of a…

In Christ... we are blessed we are chosen we are holy and blameless before God we are redeemed we are forgiven we are rich we are predestined we are sealed Who is God? Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,…

I was never a confident person growing up. I always relied on others to do things for me mostly because of my own insecurities. My lack of confidence hurt me in many ways. When Lynn and I started dating I would tell her I would love to be a pastor but I could never make it through school because I am…

How do we respond when we've lost the battle against Satan?

Introduce self: My name is Adam Diaz, I’m the pastor here at Abide Church. I love this school, I was homeschooled... Anniversary Eric has spent the last 3 weeks on a series on the 4 Gs. He asked me to finish off the series and I’m excited to do just that because... These simple truths about God, if we…

Video: The Voice of the Shepherd 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there…

INTRODUCTION: Welcome/Prayer Explain the title - “The Gospel in the Trinity” The Gospel doesn’t bring forth the Trinity, rather the Trinity, the very nature of God gives us Good News… God is Good News… at least to those who worship Him My aim this morning is to equip you with basic Trinitarian language…

First of all, we are all ministers. Jesus did not come to our world and live here so we could just come to church and hang out, He came to empower us to change the world. Why did God create us? Let’s review God’s purpose for creating us in the first place. 1. We were made to have a relationship with…

ATTN: VIDEO Stories like this can perplex you if you think about them deeply enough. Here is a missionary couple, devoted to Christ, who are captured while they are in the middle of serving the Lord. I am sure that they had prayed for God to protect them. I am sure that others, when they learned of their…

Are you weary from everyday life? Are you tired of trying, with no apparent end or reward? Join us, as our visitor Pastor Jonathan Graham gives us the importance of running the spiritual race within Christ.

Introduction We are week two of the series on God’s Grace in the Church. Last week we spent time learning why we need to study the book of Ephesians. So today open your bibles to Ephesians 1:3-14 The word blessing is a word that most Christians are familiar with today. If you were to go the bookstore…

Forgiveness has been defined as not getting what you so rightly deserve. Likewise, grace is defined as receiving what you do not deserve. Both are nutshell summaries that only really make sense once you understand the totality of God’s Forgiveness and Grace. Hopefully, this message will bring you closer to that understanding. It helps if you also understand before hearing it that you, yes you, have rebelled against the One who created the universe and all the physical, interpersonal and spiritual rules that govern it. Ephesians 1:3-14; Ephesians 2:1-7; Hebrews 7:23-26; 1 Corinthians 2:10-12

Introduction How do you view the healing miracles of Jesus? Jesus does some amazing stuff when he’s on earth and we’ve read some of them today. He makes blind people see, deaf people hear, he makes lame people walk and he even raises the dead. And it happens all the time in the gospels…but today - where’s…