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9 Honor the Lord with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of all your increase; 10 So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine. Introduction: (Define honor) To confer the weightiness or to give special recognition to God the Father, through God the Son,…

And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk. And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone’s opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to…

Let this series of questions help you determine where you are storing up treasure as we examine Matthew 6:19-24.

6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. In this verse the conjunction “with” tells us that “great gain” cannot come without “godliness and contentment” operating in our lives. What is godliness? Godliness is being like and having the mind of God. What is God like and what is the mind of God like?…

Genesis 17 1 When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, “I am God Almighty. Live in My presence and be blameless. 2 I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you greatly.” 3 Then Abram fell facedown and God spoke with him: 4 “As for Me, My covenant is with…

On Mother’s Day We honor the unique role that God has given to women. We honor those who have raised children. We honor those who gave of themselves to see the next generation walk with Christ. What does God have to say to you as a mom on mother’s day? This message applies to us all but as I thought…

Intro: This morning we come to end of Daniel Chapter 11. And this is where we find the last of our 5 Kings… Throughout this chapter we have looked at… 1. Ahasuerus - v.2 2. Alexander the Great - vv.3-4 - An Ancient Soap Opera - vv. 5-9 3. Antiochus the Great - vv. 10-19 4. Antiochus Epiphanes - vv. 20-35…

After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others, and he sent them ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself was about to go. He told them, “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest. Now go;…

Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had…

32 “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure…

Demolition Zone Koheleth (Solomon) continues to prove his thesis of “vanity of vanities” in our passage tonight. Addressing and demolishing a common pretence (myths) regarding riches. (demolition zone picture to be inserted here) When you see a sign that says demolition zone what do you take note of?…

Annanias and Sapphira contrast with Barnabas All those who claimed Jesus Christ, sold property and gave it to the Apostles to be distributed. Barnabas was recognized as a leader of distinction for giving encouragement who sold a field and gave the money to the Apostles for distribution. Annanias and…

Intro Week three of four in this series Looking at some of the things that people object to when they consider the Church Week one: Hypocrisy Week two: Leadership and the failure of leadership both in but also of the Church. This week we are looking at Money. 56.7% say that we are too focused on money…

Perilous Times 2 Timothy 3:1-9 2 Timothy 3:1–9 “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal,…

For the next few messages from me we are going to be talking about faith and God’s provision, and where is our faith placed. But before we dive into the text we need to understand what that word means, so I have a definition and then I also have some information from some surveys done to show us where…

Context Here we are again this morning still not starting our messages on David, but I saw something this last week that really bothered me, and I have been struggling all week with it. So, here we are. I titled this mornings message Zeal for the LORD’S house. Over the last few months you all have heard…

THE EXEMPLARY SOLDIER 1 Chronicles 12:1-40 Scripture Reading: 1 Chronicles 12:32-40 This chapter that we have just read from is an amazing chapter, in it we see some great truths for soldiering and also some great truths for the Christian life. I want to challenge you with something – the Christian life…

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. Otherwise, you have no reward with your Father in heaven. So whenever you give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be applauded by people. Truly…

Is what we say about money and materialism, the same as what we practice? The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—is this: If you could have Heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities…

Introduction Welcome God and Money Week 3 Once again I am indebted to Capitol Hill Baptist Church for their wonderful material on this subject that has been so helpful to me. Summarize the last two weeks. - You don’t own what you own. - We are stewards to use what we have been given for the purposes…

# Title: Parched # John 7:37-39 Good morning once again. It's such a joy to stand before you and proclaim God's Word. This week I had the opportunity to attend a workshop of the Charles Simeon Trust. This is an organization that focuses on helping pastors improve and grow in their expositional preaching.…

Is there a call to ministry? What is a biblical calling? One thing that is NOT a calling to vocational ministry Spiritual need- the perception of need does not constitute a call. 6 And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.…

If you’ve been with us - you know that for the month of May, we are discussing various topics within Christianity... Topics that I believe - if NOT discussed on a regular basis (annual for us) - that we’ll run the risk of getting ourselves OUT AHEAD of GOD... instead of being LED - BY Him! We started…

Matthew 21:1-17 Introduction: Good morning and welcome once again to this gathering of Hope Bible Fellowship. We have been walking through the book of Nehemiah for the last several weeks. For the next two Sundays we are going step away from that to celebrate Palm Sunday and Easter week and then we will…

Welcome Good morning everyone, today we are going to go over our last Lent sermon. Now I know that Lent is not over, but next week we are going to go back to the gospel of John and everything should line up to finish John just after Easter. As we start this morning, let’s read our passage together and…