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Following In The Footsteps Of Faith Sermon #16 Genesis 23:1-20 STANDING UP FROM BEFORE THE DEAD Intro : We have been privileged to walk with Abraham through the peaks and valleys of a life well lived. We have seen him leave his homeland to walk with God by faith. We have witnessed his successes and his…

Introduction matters I think that it is important to look at a few things as we set up looking at the resurrection of the body. Paul is going to continue his discussion on that the body matters for one day there will be a bodily resurrection. There were people in Corinth that did not believe in resurrection…

Christ is Risen! Indeed HE IS Risen!!! Celebrate the resurrection of our Lord today and let's remember what all HE did AND is doing for us means for us TODAY.

Fear of Death or Serious Illness In this concluding series on Hope, I’d look at hope when you or someone you love is facing a serious illness or death. One of our biggest fears right now would be catching the coronovirus. If you are high risk or an essential worker that is a fear that you’ve lived with…

Introduction Have you ever watched the sunrise? I know many of us have had that experience, getting up in the blackness of night. Standing shivering in anticipation of what you hope will come soon! But, it seems to get colder. The night gets blacker. Have you ever had that thought “will tonight be the…

? Have you ever wondered why certain things are associated with bad things. Why do people say that walking under a ladder is bad luck. Is it just a saying to stop people doing the stupid thing of walking under the ladder, knocking it over and having something or someone fall on their head? Or is it a…

The truth of the Resurrection demands that we realign our destiny, our desires & our decisions.

I. ACKNOWLEDGE: SIN IS DECEITFUL 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. II. FOUNDATION: THE CROSS…

We now turn to the central point of Romans 7, the reason why we can't save ourselves, or make ourselves acceptable to God, is that we are in the flesh.

The PROBLEM: SIN #1 - I Battle My OWN Sinful Nature I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God’s law with all my heart. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin…

“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.”― C.S. Lewis Changing…

Life of a disciple From threats to beatings, from beatings to more threats led to the first Christian martyr, Stephen. Tonight we continue our journey looking at the life, ministry and death of Stephen and the church. A few reminders of where we are or have recently been: Persecution of the church intensified…

Paul is going on in verse 9 to work out for us the implications and particulars of how the principles given in verse 7 and 8 work out for us, in a remarkably personal manner, his own personal testimony.

Centuries after Joseph, the children of Israel find themselves brutally oppressed by the Egyptians, and they cry out to God. He hears them, and sends Moses to carry God's demand to "let my people go!" Pharoah refuses, enduring many plagues until at last God promises the death of all Egypt's firstborn. Was such brutality necessary? Why did Israel escape? What is God really doing in the Passover?

3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. 13 But…

Call to Arms. Read Story from Wall Builders book about The minister in Virginia who called his church to get in the fight. The fight is among us. Now is the time for battle. There is a battle that is going on around us as well. Today I’d like to show you how the church has become largely unprepared for…

One of the mysteries of life is what happens after the death of the body. As a rule, Gentiles in Paul’s day did not believe in a resurrection and even some Jews didn’t. No wonder there was confusion about this teaching among these new believers. Was it physical or only spiritual? Had it already happened…

Paul declares that the deception of sin in our lives is a very clear and present reality that each one of us must face, so much so that it takes the Law which was to lead to life and turns it into a death sentence.

As a pastor and a father, we have so much opportunity to preach from the experiences we have with our kids. Often though we can’t tell the stories either because they don’t want us to or maybe because it’s a private matter. This is one of those stories… so I’ll protect the inocent and the not so inocent…

Introduction “Can you be Christian and not believe in the resurrection?” shouts the headline in the Salt Lake Tribune . What a crazy question. You would think that as soon as the journalist began researching this topic among Christian clergy, she would have decided that it was a foolish question not…

According to my research on the great minds, creative imagination is the presence of the Holy Spirit. If you are here this morning feeling beat up by the storms of life, I have a solution for you: exercise your creative imagination. This world is a sea of suffering, and the only way to stay afloat is your positive imagination. I am not talking about wishful thinking. Creative imagination is a gift from God to navigate this life. It is the very Spirit of Jesus Christ that enabled him to forgive when he was suffering from the worst injustice in human history when he was on the cross. It is his imagination of the bright future that allowed him to endure the cross. Lack of imagination will make you become negative, complainful, and resentful which will make the suffering even worse...

From Scattered to harassed From the persecuted, scattered church (Act8:1) to the church at peace (Act9:31). Then came the gospel stretching out further (Act11:19-21) Tonight we see a new form of persecution that comes in, we will look at the way it comes, and the results of it. 1 Saul was in hearty agreement…

· Jesus travels to provide comfort (Christ comforts us in our times of sorrow) o Travel Challenges (Warrant out for his Life) · Jesus meets Mary and Martha where they are as it relates to their various personalities · Martha & Mary’s belief in the healing power of God o Fighting against the culture and…

So far in our journey, in our series Casket Empty - we’ve been seeing how our God, the Creator God, the LORD God, who is named Yahweh Elohim - is a God who pursues man despite the fumblings, errors, and total disobedience. We saw it in the Garden after the original sin - God came walking in the garden…

Saul in the Dark Saul was desperate and afraid. Before him lay the armies of the philistines, beside him lay his own army of Israel. In just a short time he was expected to lead his people against the philistines. But Saul was paralyzed by fear. For the past few years instead of fighting the philistines…