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This Week’s Theme: Christians Are Called to Be Honest with the LORD This Week’s Word is Hypocrisy : An outward pretence, masking an inner reality. Memory Verse: Titus 1:16 “They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.” Essence…

Religion or Relationship?

Good morning. God Is Good. This morning I have titled my sermon God is Just, God is Kind as we take a look at the book of Romans, the beginning of chapter 2. We have been studying the book of Romans since the beginning of July. Moving through methodically - to understand this very important book in our…

4 Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight— That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge. 3 Therefore whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in inner rooms will be proclaimed on the…

15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; 4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and…

Those who desire to influence others ma lose their way spiritually, and judgment is inevitable and imminent.

21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will…

Death comes to the paradise of the new church in Jerusalem - what can we learn from the scary story of judgement on Ananias and Sapphira?

Intro Week two of four week series on “bad religion” We are looking at what happens when good religion, namely Christianity, goes “bad” What do we mean by bad? Gets unbiblical Gets Extra biblical becomes toxic There are loads of people that have been seriously hurt by people and congregations that claim…

Intro Week Three of Four Week One Looked to Amos and the fact that our faith is not to be a performance God doesn’t care about the performance or the check list if our hearts aren’t in the right place Week two Jeremiah’s testimony to the court prophets They just kept telling people what they wanted to…

Convictions (Everybody should have some) Ken Walker writes in Christian Reader that in the 1995 college football season 6 foot 2 inch, 280-pound Clay Shiver, who played center for the Florida State Seminoles, was regarded as one of the best in the nation. In fact, one magazine wanted to name him to their…

Jesus comes to the temple and puts a spanner in the works - so the religious leaders are out to get him. Buy why is Jesus so upset about what's going on at the temple? Because Jesus hates (fake) religion.

Intro Last week in our 4 part series on “Bad Religion” Week one Amos God doesn’t want our performance Rather he wants our hearts, all of us Week Two - Jeremiah THe hypocrisy of the Court Prophets who just told the people what they wanted to hear Week Three - Jesus in Luke The Pharisees and the Scribes…

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…

A Paradox Jesus draws to a conclusion the Sermon on the Mount in these last two paragraphs (Mt7:21-23; Mt7:24-29). Keep in mind this series has been about Kingdom instructions for Kingdom dwellers; but are all who think they are kingdom dwellers, kingdom dwellers? Jesus has already used a paradox and…

ME: There’s a cultural phenomenon going on in our world today called “cancel culture”. What it says is that if you express views that are contrary to those acceptable by a particular group - whether that be a group of friends, a business, a media channel, a government official, you can be locked out…

Run free in the grace of Christ

Jesus calls His followers to be different. Jesus' desire for each of us is to experience an abundant life, but in order to live that life, we need to change our thinking. How far would you be willing to go to discover the life you were made to live?

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…

Post Christian Culture Biblical Christianity is loosing its primacy in many cultures! The church is changing with the world instead of changing the world. The bible is not the centerpiece of the home and even in some church assemblies. How can we be a shining light in the midst of a crooked and perverse…

Passionate What are you passionate about? Are you willing to defend, to stand up, to even confront someone about something you are passionate about? (insert a family picture here) Most can say they are passionate about their family, especially grandkids, lol. Many will say they are passionate about marriage.…

This May, May 20, my wife and I will celebrate 17 years of marriage. On our wedding day, we did something we thought was really cool. We had seen some friends of ours do it in their wedding and we wanted to have it in ours too. So, on May 20, 2006, before we said “I do”, before we were pronounced husband…

Paul has moved from principle to application . The biblical format is first doctrine then deed, first creed then conduct, first belief then behavior, and first revelation then responsibility. Without principle, exhortations would be simple platitudes, dull statements without support or cause. So Paul…

Mark 11:15-19 Introduction: Two weeks ago we looked at verses 12-14 and 20-21 . In those verses, Jesus pronounced a curse on a fig tree. The reason He cursed the tree was because it promised something it could not deliver. The tree was covered with leaves, but it had no fruit, v. 13 . Since the early…

What is the Gospel? Yes....I’m asking it again... In THIS setting - the question is most often - easily answered - BUT AS life is being lived out - the ANSWER is often - forgotten For the past several weeks - we had been making our way thru the 1st chapter of Galatians... And the Apostle Paul DEFENDING…