The Reason for the Season 25 Nov 18 Turn to 1 John 3:8 and Isaiah 52 and 51 Well, Thanksgiving is over, the chaos of Black Friday has passed, loosened up our belts - my wife saw something on Facebook - turn your scales back 10 pounds. We now we’re about to prepare for Advent. Advent comes from the Latin…

Good morning! we are in this sermon series entitled Unashamed - where we have been looking at this hidden emotion called Shame.. its often consider more subjective than objective and is easily ignored.. However what we have been seeing is that Shame is an INFLUENCER - IT is one of those emotions that…

What It Really Means to Be A Child of God Not all people are children of God. That may be a surprise for you to hear, but I want to talk about what the Bible says, not about what the culture says. It’s a feel-good quote when people bring up racial tensions that is just not what the Bible says. The Bible,…

A Lack Of Spiritual Maturity carnality—The opposite of spirituality; giving in to the desires and appetites of the flesh, or the body. carnal /ˈkɑːn(ə)l/ ■ adjective relating to physical, especially sexual, needs and activities. Paul then divided all men into three categories: natural, spiritual, and…

Suffering often shocks the Christian and non-Christian. Our culture tells us we can find happiness in the world. But experience and this passage teaches this world brings futility, corruption, and pain. This wonderful passage teaches us not to hope in this world, but in the one to come. This life is not without hope when we believe in Christ because we are promised a day when sin and death will be no more.

Imprisoned for more than 45 years for a murder he didn't commit, Richard Phillips spent more time behind bars than any other wrongfully imprisoned person in America. But after another man admitted to that murder, the Michigan native was exonerated and released from prison last March. We hear stories…

Intro 3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God,…

By Pastor Glenn Pease In the early days of Israel if a man got into debt and could not repay he was not sent to prison, but was allowed to become the slave of his creditor. But it was not to be a permanent situation. When the 7th year came he would be liberated and be free to be his own master again,…

Play video… Well some smart kids! Good Morning, We are in a sermon Series entitled 9 Flavors 1 Fruit.. We are looking at the Fruit of Spirit listed in Galatians 5:23-24 We are going to be focusing Fruit of of Love … Love is just one of 9 qualitie s… that makes up the Fruit of the Spirit… You cannot separate…

Outline Introduction: What you believe impacts how you behave God wants his people to be free In what way are we naturally enslaved? i. Everyone has a “Center” ii. Everyone is a slave, both religious and irreligious people How did Christ free us? i. Christ’s life and death forgives us when we fail and…

The power of the Holy Spirit will help you order your inner world.

Pastor Brenden speaks on the art of avoiding spiritual drift.

Introduction Today we will look at the Lord’s Prayer. It probably won’t be the version that most of you have memorized. That one is over in Mt. 6 . Rather than this being an edited version of that prayer, this is almost certainly a different occasion being reported. It is helpful to have both of these…

We talk a lot about Law and Grace. For the Christian, we live under Grace and not under the Law, but we often seem to put ourselves under the LAW. 14 Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace. This verse…

Intro Baggage Series… Tonight we will talk about the baggage of guilt… or shame. Too many believers struggle with the guilt factor ... It will weigh you down. I don’t know what kind of church experience you had when you were young… it could have been good or bad… and it impacts you today. Some churches…

This sermon explores why the faulty exegesis and hermeneutic principles of the Restoration Movement and the earlier founders like the Campbells and 2nd generational leaders like David Lipscomb lead them to faulty conclusions regarding what was a Biblical essential and what was not: God's horizontal reconciliation of humanity for which slavery, racism, ethnocentrism were violations. I list five exegetical and hermeneutical fallacies they held that led them to make heretical claims.

Being born again is the first phase of our Christian walk. With Pastor Clay's personal salvation testimony and a detailed walk on the Roman's Road to Salvation, we learn why and how earch person can have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Freedom: 1959 was the year of my birth – I am a child of the 60’s! Although I was just a child, there was a great social movement by youth in the 1960’s – a reaction against what they perceived to be the failure of the older generation that had led to two world wars, corruption, oppression and a world…

A young stockbroker didn’t like some of the shady moves his superiors were making. He had a feeling that the company was headed for the rocks. So he quietly put his résumé out and soon joined another company, at a slightly lower salary. It had been a lateral move, bringing no advantage of position or…

Today we continue to walk through Paul’s letter to the Galatians…and what we’ve been hearing OVER and OVER again from Paul... Is that the Galatians - IF THEY were to receive circumcision as a means of salvation - would become ACCOUNTABLE for the whole law! They would take themselves - back UNDER the…