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START RECORDING PRAY ACTS 22 I’ve always been a tinkerer. I’m pretty mechanical. I like taking things apart and putting them back together. I like to figure it out rather than read the directions. So you can imagine my excitement when I figured out how God works to accomplish his will in the world. It’s…

Jesus told his disciples another parable about the kingdom of heaven. Like a man who sowed good seed in his field. His enemy came and intentionally sowed bad seed with the good seed. The good wheat and the weeds grew up together. (looking the same) The servant asked the master where the weeds came from,…

9 About noon the next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat; and while it was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw the heaven opened and something like a large sheet coming down, being…

Star Search After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all…

Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild…

Grace Under Fire God’s Grace is With us Good morning and welcome to worship! It is such a joy to get to be with you today! Joey is finishing up his vacation this week and that gives me the opportunity to gather and worship with you here in Common Ground today. How many of you were able to be here last…

The depravity of man and God's grace.

The depravity of man and God's grace.

Our ideals and desires sometimes get in the way of understanding God and being able to accomplish His will.

What happens when we set up a blockade of bitterness?

In Jesus, the kingdom of Heaven has come near and the ethos of God's heavenly reign is modeled. This is seen in the healing of Bartmaeus. God has offered prevenient grace in for Bartimaeus as Jesus passed by. He does the same for us as well in this season of Lent.

Grace is a gift that multiplies to cover all sins.

Reading of the Word But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our wrongdoings, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so…

Story of Read —> For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God— 9 not the result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.…

The Old & New In chapter 6 of Romans, which is split into two major sections each dealing with the subject of God’s grace, the Apostle Paul juxtaposes “death to sin” and “death by sin” (6:1-14). He also shows the contrasting qualities of being enslaved to sin versus being enslaved to righteousness (6:15-23).…

------ This week our Vital Merger Prayer will focus on the transition to what ever is next. We are praying for that now.. .not even knowing what it will be. William Bridges wrote in a book on transitions - “Before you can begin something new, you have to end what used to be. Before you can learn a new…

The title of the sermon this morning is, God calls us to share our faith. Three ways He will help us. Let’s take a quick poll this morning. The poll is about your attitudes and mine toward the topic of evangelism - sharing your faith. I’m going to share with you a series of statements that sum up our…

Funny Duck... Not living as God had created him to live. My Name is Gary Priddy, and the title of this talk is PREVENIENT GRACE. ___________________ will you pray for us please. Just like old funny duck, we were created by God…only We were created in God's image to be in relationship with God. In the…

Funny Duck He was trying to be something he was not created to be. He was fighting God’s design for him. He was trying to be something he was not created to be. He was fighting God’s design for him. My name is Gary Priddy, and the title of this talk is God Designed You. My name is Gary Priddy, and the…

Personal Story I was raised in the church. The message of Jesus Christ was a foundation of the culture in which I was born and raised. When you something has always been a part of your life, you can develop a unrecognized perception or understanding that the thing that has always been a part of your…

Jesus is calling out a generation that believe the beauty of Jesus following his call

During the building of the Golden Gate Bridge over San Francisco Bay, construction fell badly behind schedule because several workers had accidentally fallen from the scaffolding to their deaths. Engineers and administrators could find no solution to the costly delays. Finally, someone suggested a gigantic…

Generosity is the Law of Christian Life

The Doctrines of Grace

The imperative of telling the Good News of salvation for the poor by prevenient grace for those in desperate circumstances.