By Pastor Glenn Pease An embarrassing situation marked the passing of a well known fire chief. None of the family has spoken to any member of his engine company since the funeral. With the best of intentions these fire men sent what they felt was a high tribute. It was a floral arrangement with gold…

Acts 2:1-4 John 16:7-8; 13-16 Pentecostal Power Last week was a significant week in the traditional year celebrated by many churches. The truth is that at Baptist Churches we often overlook this Sunday. The Sunday is Pentecost Sunday. I think we overlook it because it is about the Holy Spirit and sometimes…

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…

Turn to 1 Peter 1 There seems to be a perception about God and the Church in our society - that God and the Church exist primarily to fix problems. “If God’s is so powerful, and He can fix all my problems, then He should fix all my problems and the problems of the world” - or so goes the idea. Of course…

The TV show “Home Improvement” starring Tim Allen was a hit show based on one man’s desire to always build something bigger and more powerful. It seemed that in almost every show there was a time when Allen looked for the opportunity to get more power whether it was in a lawn mower, garbage disposal,…

Elder Steve Nelson brings a communion message today and Pastor Chase concludes our seriesin the book of 1 Thessalonians. Grab your Bible and open up to 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28.

By the Grace of God we are saved and set apart for Glory.

Intro I think I am having a wife joke. Women are so precious and they ought to be precious to their husbands and to the congregation. For women are precious to God: So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Prayer He didn’t just create…

Last week we took time to remember all the things that God is to us. -He is a Sovereign God. -He is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. -He is the Father of Mercies. -He is a God of Comfort. Today I want us to stop and take a look at how exactly God is working. 1. God allows trials to come our way!…

Supernatural Gifts And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit. We see in the life of the early disciples there was a reliance and dependance on the ministry of the Holy Spirit The verse above indicates that they were “continually being filled” with the power of the Holy Spirit And…

6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. 1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear…

Holy Spirits Work God the Holy Spirit a person of the Trinity Regeneration / Born again Inspires the written scriptures gives prophecy to man the Bible is complete, it does not have new revelation When someone is saved the Holy Spirit takes up residence And if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from…

How to Get Back Up when Life Knocks You Down

Intro John Maxwell Running with the Giants… Learning from the Giants… Wisdom from the Women of the Bible... We can learn a lot from the Heroes of the faith. You can read about a lot of these in Hebrews 11 . After writing about all of these heroes of the faith, in chapter 12, he says… 1 Therefore, since…

Matthew 12:22-31 I am so grateful for the gift we have in Holy Spirit. We, who live in the church age, have a gift that is worth more than we can understand! To have God living in us all of our Christian life. Guiding us, teaching us, molding us. He brings conviction of our need for a Saviour. He illuminates…

As an introduction to the new series, Spirit of the Living God, Pastor Clay walks through Scripture to indroduce us to the Holy Spirit. Have you considered the implications of the Holy Spirit's knowing the mind of God as He searches out your heart and mind? Why did Jesus send us the Holy Spirit? What is the work of the Holy Spirit in believers today? Take a moment to find out more.

Shocking Mom came to visit on Halloween How do you respond? Today’s message is about how our God works in shocking ways and how our responses reveal our hearts true loyalty. Pray Read 1 Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.…

Intro: Yesterday we celebrated the birth of Jesus. His first coming… and now this morning we are going to be talking about His second Coming. One of the toughest subjects of study in all of scripture is the study of the end times. Prophecy is a very difficult subject. The language is heavily figurative,…