Series: Renewing Our Relationship with God Sermon: Responding to God’s Love Scripture: Various Renewing our relationship with God should be first on our list of priorities for a new year. The first task in renewing our relationship is accepting that God loves us, and the prime example of His love is…

TITLE: "Seven Positive Traits of True Love" TEXT: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ETS: The Apostle Paul gives a detailed description of love. ESS: Love exhibits certain characteristics. OSS: Christians will gain a new understanding of love and endeavor to live it out. UW: Characteristics PQ: What are dome defining…

Introduction: *Question: What is involved in having a vital relationship with Jesus Christ?” How can we describe the union that a believer experiences between himself and Christ? We talk about knowing Christ, being in Christ, walking with Christ, and loving Him. But what does that union really involve?…

How Christians Should Celebrate Valentine’s Day How Christians Should Celebrate Valentine’s Day 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 (NIV) 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass…

Abiding In Christ John 15:7-17 Introduction In this week’s lesson, we continue to examine the believer’s relationship with Christ. Specifically, we will focus on what it means to abide in Christ. Arthur Pink offers an excellent definition of what it means to abide in Christ. “First, to abide in Christ…

Introduction: Let’s Read Acts 3:1-11 to get the context:* At this point Peter began to preach his second sermon. When we compare Peter’s first sermon with this one, we find some differences. Yet there are similarities too, because regardless of the circumstances, Peter was trying to do the same thing…

Unconditional love lays down; conditional love closes up. Learn from Jesus how to love without being hypocritical or manipulative, but to love in such a way that leads people to Jesus.

Time with Abba - Bible Reading Schedule Jan l Feb l Mar l Apr l May l Jun l Jul l Aug l Sep l Oct l Nov l Dec Date Psalms OT NT Proverbs 1/1 Ps 1:1-6 Gen 1:1-2:25 Matt 1:1-2:12 Prov 1:1-6 1/2 Ps 2:1-6 Gen 3:1 - 4:26 Matt 2:13-3:6 Prov 1:7-9 1/3 Ps 2:7-12 Gen 5:1 - 7:24 Matt 3:7-4:11 Prov 1:10-19 1/4…

Series: Renewing Our Relationship with God Sermon: Sharing God’s Love Scripture: Various “Love one another” sounds so simple, doesn’t it? And it is. It sounds so easy, too. But if it were so easy Jesus probably wouldn’t have felt the need to mention it so many times. If it sounds so simple, and it sounds…

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…

Genesis 4:1‑7 Unacceptable Worship Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man.” Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. /Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. In the course of time Cain brought…

Thomas S. Myers A Lifestyle That Honors God Ephesians 4:25-32 FIND NOTES ON EPH 4:17. The story is told of a little boy who went to the funeral of an atheist. There in the coffin was the man who professed not to believe in God, and, of course, God's heaven. The little boy studied the well-dressed, lifeless…

Embracing Forgiveness Philemon 1-25 Purpose: To see a real life picture of forgiveness. Aim: I want the listener to repent of any un-forgiveness and humbly extend forgiveness. INTRODUCTION: Philemon was led to Christ by Paul, probably at Ephesus. He must have been wealthy because his home was big enough…

Liberty University An Exegetical Paper on I John 5:13-21 A paper submitted to Dr. Percer In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the course NBST 655 Liberty Theological seminary By Christopher W. Myers Lynchburg, Virginia Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Table of Contents Outline of I John 5:13-21- 3 Introduction-…

WORLDLINESS: THE SYMPTOMS…THE DIAGNOSIS…THE CURE What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.…

John 5:17-30 The Astounding Authority: Equality with God, 5:17-30 The Fathers Relationship To the Son. In the spiritual realm, Christ knows God better than anyone. Better than theologians who have written about Him through the centuries. Even better than the prophets and apostles, who received divine…

“God’s Great Love” John 3:16-17 Introduction: God is love (1Jn. 4:8,16) · Psalm 63:3; 86:15; 100:5 · Ps.36:7; 89:1-2 · The N.T. ultimately unveils the ultimate proof of God’s love (Rom.5:8; 1Jn.4:9-10; Eph.2:4-6) 1. The fact: God so loved (v.16a) 1. Whole world (Jn.1:29; 3:16; Rom.10:12-13; 1Tim.2:4;…

What’s love got to do with it? I heard a song on the radio this past week and it got me to thinking. There are some songs that we have heard so many times over the years that we quit listening to the words, or we find that we never really paid very close attention to them in the first place. That was…

He aquí yo vengo pronto, y mi galardón conmigo, para recompensar a cada uno según sea su obra. Pero sin fe es imposible agradar a Dios; porque es necesario que el que se acerca a Dios crea que le hay, y que es galardonador de los que le buscan. Apocalipsis Creo que este versículo es clave para el tema…

James 4:5-10 Steps to a Successful Christian Life “Do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, ‘He yearns jealously over the Spirit that he has made to dwell in us?’ But He gives more grace. Therefore it says, ‘God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.’ Submit yourselves therefore…

Loving One Another Introduction Love for the brethren has been shown as proof of fellowship with God (1 John 2:7-11); then it has been presented as proof of sonship (1 John 3:10-14). In the earlier passage, love for the brethren is a matter of light or darkness; in the second it is a matter of life or…

Once Upon A Time... Once upon a time there was a king. This king was good and wise and powerful. He cared for his people and his land. The king also had a son and a daughter. He was a good Father who loved his children very much. He took care of them and provided for their needs. He played with them…

The Reward of Generosity 2Corinthians 9:6-15 December 28, 2003 Scripture Reading: Responsive Reading #636 Hymnal Introduction: The Magi have set the tone of our Christmas celebrations for centuries by the gifts they had planned ahead to give to Christ. (What they received in return from God for their…

our refuge[1] INTRODUCTION: 1. Read text: Joshua 20:1-9. 2. Regarding text: (1) Upon arriving in Canaan, the Israelites were to choose six cities of refuge. A. Cities of refuge were to be conveniently located. B. Three on the West side of the Jordan and three on the East side (Num. 35:14). (2) Purpose:…

A Dweillng Place After B. Schmitz Almighty God, our Father in heaven, before whom live all who die in the Lord: Receive N. into the courts of your heavenly dwelling. Let N.'s heart and soul now ring out in joy to you, O Lord, the Living God, and the God of those who live. This we ask through Christ our…