Just this past week something caught my attention in the news. You may have seen it yourself and read about it. An act of forgiveness was seen. Can you imagine forgiving the person who killed your own brother? Well, that's exactly what happened in a Dallas courtroom this past Wednesday. Police officer…

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…

Pastor Chase wraps up our series on "This is Us". Today is all about prayer. If God is all knowing, why do we bother praying? How should we pray? We will dive in to all of this and more in the message. Take a listen!

The Three Most Important Components of Prayer 1. Forgiveness - vertical and Horizontal 2. Faith - For without faith is is impossible to please God. 3. Faithful - It is required of a man to be found faithful PUSH - Pray Until Something Happens Forgiveness - the foundation upon which we build everything…

Temptation comes from a number of sources but not from God.

Today is sermon 2 from our Believe series - after this we’ll have 28 more to go! The topic this week is God is personal . Of the 4,200 religions in the world, the Judeo-Christian faith is largely unique in the fact that God reveals Himself, God is knowable, He’s near, He’s active in our lives and He…

Over the last several weeks, we talked about the End Times. The purpose was awareness - to be aware of what is coming. We wrapped up last week’s sermon with the exhortation to make our lives count. We have one shot at this life – one life to leave our mark. Sadly, some people think that if I can just…

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

The Holy Spirit This week we have been Praying and studying about Leveling the Praying Field To prayer shows ++an extreme activity of faith ++a belief in God ++God is a reality in my life Praying is a Deep expression of Devotion The practice of prayer ++Noted throughout the scriptures 10 Now when Daniel…

The sixth petition of the Lord's Prayer

Introduction: Illustration - The Reality of Trials It's been said concerning trials and storms of life that, "Either you just came through one, are now entering one, or one looms on your horizon." Main Thought: Prepare today for the persecutions of tomorrow looking for the promise of eternity. Sub-intro:…

Having Christ in your heart does not mean that you will no longer have problems. The Lord said it very plainly in John 16:33 , “In this world you will have trouble.” Christians and non-Christians will both encounter problems in this life. This morning I want us to consider one verse in particular, namely:…

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…

This morning, we wrap up our series-in-a-series on prayer. We have been spending most of our year in the Sermon on the Mount, which is found in Matthew 5-7 . This is a message Jesus gave where he sat down on a mountain with his disciples and a crowd of other people to talk about who his followers should…

The Good Samaritan is one of the best known parable that Jesus taught, made vastly more convicting and powerful by our understanding of the great rift between the Jews of Palestine and their closest neighbors and indeed relatives. The Samaritans. Jesus uses the image of the good Samaritan to show us…

Prayer - I hope you have been praying. Truly, one of the marks of a Christian is that we are praying people. Jesus’ disciples asked him to teach them to pray, and for the past several weeks during the season of Lent, we’ve been studying the Lord’s Prayer and my hope as your pastor we’ve learning to pray…

My sermon is going to be different today. If you are visiting, I’m so glad you are here, but I need to inform you that today’s sermon is nothing like every other sermon I preach from week to week. And this is why: According to Bob Smietana, from LifeWay Research, “more than half of Americans have read…

This morning I invite you on a journey - A journey of the blind given sight A journey of the lame given strength A journey of the lost given hope A journey of the early days of Christ’s ministry Last week we looked at the Birth of a King, and how God was revealed through the Word. 1 In the beginning…

When You Pray - Part 2 5 “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you…