Sermons
Gaining God’s Favor through Our Humility
The pain and cost of humility is worth God’s favor. 1 Peter 5:5 – “In the same way, you who are younger must accept the authority of the elders. And all of you, dress yourselves in humility as you relate to one another, for God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
Retreat ’21: The Power to Change
The Holy Spirit is our path to power, love, and self-control 2 Timothy 1:7 – “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.”
Retreat ’21: Martyrdom
With God there is nothing but strength. Without God there is nothing but weakness. Ephesians 3:14-21 – “When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his…
Retreat ’21: Bible Prophesy & The End Times Sequence of Events
The fake Jesus comes first followed by the real Jesus.
Hot Coals on Lucifer’s Head
The purpose of the Church is to humiliate Satan. Ephesians 3: 10-13 – God’s purpose in all this was to use the church to display his wisdom in its rich variety to all the unseen rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. This was his eternal plan, which he carried out through Christ Jesus our Lord. Because of Christ and our faith in him, we can now come…
Revolution is Revolting
Adding anything to the Gospel makes it the opposite of “Revolutionary”. Ephesians 2:11-16, Acts 5:33-42, Galatians 2:11-13 – Don’t forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders. You were called “uncircumcised heathens” by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts. In those days you were living…
Living Intentionally
Luke 5:1-11 – One day as Jesus was preaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, great crowds pressed in on him to listen to the word of God. He noticed two empty boats at the water’s edge, for the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets. Stepping into one of the boats, Jesus asked Simon, its owner, to push it out into the water. So he sat in the boat…
Prayer Sunday
Real Christianity: The Sermon on the Mount #30: Forgiveness
Keep forgiving to stay clean from sins against you. Matthew 6:12 – And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.