Living The Kingdom of God Lifestyle Journey From Religion to Relationship Growing as a group in the gospel of the kingdom INTRODUCTION & INDEX To Kingdom Growth Guides INTRODUCTION (#000) | Kingdom Growth Guides are for assisting individuals and small groups to move toward the kingdom lifestyle. These…

Introduction: Last week we talked about The Relationship of Believers to Believers, this week, Christ turns to the hatred of the world. Why does the world hate Christians? · (1) because it first hated Christ, and we belong to Him (1 John 3:13), (2) because we no longer belong to the world (1 John 4:5…

What Not to Love A sermon on 1 John 2:15-17 preached at Christ the King Church on 1/15/06 Prayer: Father, open our eyes to see and our hearts to sense the truth of your Word. Lord, you know that I need help to preach, and that this congregation needs help to listen. So, help us both to recognize and…

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…

The Kingdom of God is like tares in the wheat.

The Principles Holy Living Colossians 3:1–17 (READ V.1) This is not the if of condition; it is really the if of argument. The lives of these Colossian Christians evidenced their salvation. What was the evidence? (Col 1:3-5) 3 We give thanks to God,  the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always…

The Armor of God 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power . 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood , but against the rulers , against the authorities, against the powers of this…

The Dilemma of Belief. Have you ever had those moments when you wondered, “Is this really true?” Maybe life has gotten difficult. Maybe you have come to the Derailment of your hopes and dreams like Joseph, Mary’s husband, when he found out that his betrothed bride was pregnant after all his time and…

Isaiah 2:1-4 Life in the Millennium “The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations…

Part I Prolegomena Introduction to Theology 8 2006 I. Introduction to Prolegomena A. What is Prolegomena (the singular is Prolegomenon) 1. It is from the Greek pro/ + le/gw, meaning to say beforehand (Random House Dictionary, 2nd Ed., 1547). 2. It refers to "a preliminary discourse prefixed to a literary…

Desiring God - God centered resources from the ministry of John Piper Receive These Weekly Print This Page If My Words Abide in You April 30, 2006 John 15:7 If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will and it shall be done for you. What is the most urgent need in the church of…

Studies in Revelation __________________________________________________ Christ’s Victory Over the Forces of Darkness Contents Preface................................................................................................................................................................................................…

To call the Lord “the true God” means that he alone has in his being the fulness of deity and is worthy to be worshipped as God. He and his word are a trustworthy foundation for life because he speaks the truth and is utterly reliable and consistent in his character, his revelation of himself, his promises and his pronouncements.

Today we are studying John 15:1-17. I encourage you to open your bibles to this passage, so we can read and study together. As we saw last week in John 14 , the Holy Spirit is in us to teach us. Let’s take time to ask the Lord to open our hearts and minds to hear what he wants to teach us today. We are…

THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT Introduction Matthew’s Gospel breaks the long silence which followed the ministry of Malachi, the last of the Old Testament prophets. The silence extended for four hundred years, and during that time God was withdrawn from Israel. Throughout this period there were no angelic manifestations,…

Matthew Sickling wrote up what he saw as today’s Beatitudes for churchgoers who let the cares of this world dominate them. THE DEVIL'S BEATITUDES 1. Blessed are those who are too tired, too busy, too distracted to spend even an hour once a week with their fellow Christians – they are my best workers.…

How the Doctrines of the Triune God Affect the Content and Character of Worship Bradley Robert Berglund Chapter 1 - Why Another Book on Worship? Chapter 2 - How Did Worship Become Divisive? Chapter 3 - Is Worship an Essential Doctrine (or Are We Majoring on Minors)? Chapter 4 – The Rudiments of Acceptable…

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…

Last Spring, we studied through the Sermon on the Mount. One of the great themes of Matthew is the coming kingdom. The Book of Revelation speaks of the time when that new kingdom is fully realized. I shared with our Elders a week ago an observation that I gleaned about songs describing Heaven. Historically…

oremus bible hymnal almanac liturgy Common Worship Almanacs for desktop calendars and PDAs Almanac files for iCal, Outlook, Palm and other calendar software Calendar for 2009 | Sun 30 Nov 2008 | CW* Advent 1 | First Sunday of Advent Principal Service Isaiah 64.1-9 Psalm 80.1-8, 18-20* 1 Corinthians 1.3-9…

“Family Resemblance” 1 John 3.1-10 How many times have we heard or told people say that a child has his mom’s eyes or dad’s nose? Or as a parent, how have you noticed that your children have acquired your personalities and habits – good and bad? We recognize that there are biological similarities within…

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…

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

You Think You're Saved, But You're Not! (January 2002) What a horrifying reality, to think you will enter God's presence on the day of your death, but then, come to find out on that day, you were actually deceived, and you find yourself in hell. Such is, and will be, the terror of most who call themselves…

The Book of Common Prayer, Formatted as the original This document was created from a text file into WordPerfect for Windows 6.1 and then converted to RTF format. When you convert it to your word processor=s native format it is almost inevitable that these conversions will not be perfect and that some…