Take up Your Cross and Follow Me: Mt. 16:24-28 Everton Community Church. Sunday September 30th 2007. At this time of year, most people have completed their holidays and are back focusing on work. Were your holiday’s what you expected? The following are actual responses from comment cards given to the…

Prayer As we continue this week making our way through the 1st chapter of the gospel of John, …we come today to - basically - the second part to last week’s sermon... Last week we looked at John the Baptist being sent BY GOD to water baptize... with the purpose of REVEALING Jesus to Israel... And what…

Who is the King you are serving and following? Timeline and Background: It’s the last 7 days of the life of Jesus on earth...Jesus just entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey, to celebrate the Passover...it was a triumphal procession...people shouting and praising God 12 On the next day the large crowd…

Introduction Good morning! Last week Jesus spoke some very hard truth to me, and hopefully to you. I have dealt with it continually this week. ((You know, if I preached on tithing, and you don’t tithe, you could just go fix it. You could set up a bank draft and be done.)) But... Jesus told us that we…

How does a middle class fishin' man End up in the middle of God's mission plan? He's a back water who walked on water. One of the first to see Jesus in his authentic identity. The Lord called this man the Rock. The gates of Heaven are his to unlock. He's a truth denier turned Spirit-filled testifier.…

A bar called Drummond's, in Mt Vernon, Texas began construction on an expansion of their building, hoping to "grow" their business. In response, the local Southern Baptist Church started a campaign to block the bar from expanding - petitions, prayers, etc. About a week before the bar's grand reopening,…

The Unmistakable Deity of Christ Introduction Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man. We assuredly need to believe that Jesus Christ is fully man as well in order to understand the sacrifice of Jesus for our sins. God cannot die. So if Christ is not fully man, then there is no sacrifice for our sins.…

In the book of James, we are counseled to be slow in announcing long-range plans because we have no idea what tomorrow might bring. It may bring great blessing or it could result in great hardship. After the announcement that Jesus was the Messiah by Peter and the affirming response of Jesus, the disciples…

Maybe you have noticed this or perhaps it has escaped your grasp about me. I almost never use the terms Christian or saved and I typically try and stay away from the word believer when I can help it. Now…maybe you grew up in church and in a tradition where those were like sacred and holy words used to…

Acts 17 Title 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. 17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. 18 Then certain philosophers…

This study is about relationship. Don’t think of this as a study of someone who walked this earth 2018 years ago. Any study of Jesus is a relationship building study. Share short testimony Your Testimoney My life Before Christ How I came to know Christ My life since I’ve come to know Jesus Goal tonight…

1 When he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him. 2 Right away a man with leprosy came up and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” 3 Reaching out his hand, Jesus touched him, saying, “I am willing; be made clean.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.…

A Tale of Two Masters 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Money is not evil. Money is no more evil that food, sleep or sex. Each of these things can be sources of…

Prayer Where last week, we saw how The Word Became Flesh... How: God Himself entered into His creation... How Jesus Christ HUMBLED himself - by emptying Himself - to the point of obedience... How Underserved Favor from God came to man And all of this - in the Word becoming flesh... THIS WEEK... We’re…

Introduction Daniel 3 continues to describe the challenges that Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah encountered during their forced relocation to Babylon. When faced with the option to defile themselves and disobey God, they bravely chose to obey. Despite all the problems, we see that God’s hand of…

Jesus lived a cross shaped life building to thisvery moment.