God uses weak and unqualified people for His Kingdom purposes. The Powerful, Presence of a Personal God empowers us as believers for the purposes God has for us. Your gifts are not for you comfort, they are for Christ. Your gifts are not for your name, they are for the name of Jesus spreading. The Church needs you!

Introduction—choice People have been making some strange choices over the last couple of weeks, haven’t they? At least, their choices have had strange results, like this. [Toilet paper free shelves] Now people do recognise that sometimes they need to make radical choices, and yet when push comes to shove,…

Intro Consumers spent more than $130 billion on gift cards per year, according to advisory company CEB TowerGroup, but it said roughly $1 billion went unspent. A Radical Reorientation Our worship is a response to God’s mercy . 1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your…

*Open your Bibles to Romans 12 Illustration: It is fitting, as we turn to Romans chapter 12, that tonight is Halloween The festival that we know as Halloween began as a Pagan festival in the Celts of Ireland and Scotland called Samhain. They believed that at this time of year, the line between the living…

Factions and contentiousness die when you rightly understand, celebrate, and model what Jesus first did for you.

1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. 2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test…