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Recognizing graduate: Opening Sermon Prayer: Heavenly Father, As we gather today, we seek Your guidance in building godly homes rooted in Your Word. Help us understand the importance of training our children in Your ways, instilling discipline and love. Grant us wisdom as we immerse them in Scripture…

Family Look Like? We need to have the proper perspective to understand how to see our part as a family. After we get our perspective adjusted our Father will give us more focused causes this family will impact. This move of God we are in looks like Family. Our Father is giving a fresh perspective what…

Hello again, today we are picking up where we left off last week looking at God’s design for marriage. We already learned that the marriage relationship was created to reflect Christ’s relationship with His Bride the church. We also recognized that it is vital to follow God’s design for marriage so that…

Introduction (Previous Messages in the Colossians Series) ‘For the Faithfulness of Epaphras’ - Col. 1:1-8 In that message, we looked at how because Epaphras was Faithful to serve the LORD, the gentiles there at Colosse gained: Faith in Christ Fellowship with each other A Future home in Heaven Fruit for…

Title: Marriage lived for the glory of God Series: Foundations for the Family: Building Godly Homes Series Introduction: The focus of today’s message lies in the essence of "Marriage lived for the glory of God." The pivotal word here is "for." It's crucial to grasp that the topic isn't about "The glory…

What is a woman? This is a question our society is confused on today. With the issues surrounding transgenderism and blurring the lines of gender roles, we have politicians, professors, and everyday people who cannot define what a woman is. Just like being a man is more than biology, being a woman is…

Mother’s Day Comments” "Good morning and happy Mother's Day to all the amazing moms here with us today! Today is all about celebrating you and everything you do. Moms, you're like superheroes with your love, strength, and endless support. Take a moment to think about how much moms mean to us. Whether…

Opening Prayer: Heavenly Father, We come before You today with grateful hearts, thanking You for the gift of family and the privilege of coming together to seek Your face. As we gather in Your presence, we ask for Your Holy Spirit to be among us, guiding our thoughts and opening our hearts to the message…

Heavenly Father, We gather in Your presence this morning with hearts full of gratitude and reverence. On this special day, as we honor fathers, we recognize You as our ultimate Father, the one who guides, nurtures, and loves us unconditionally. We thank You for the fathers among us, for their dedication,…

Peace, we need it! Peace/Justification through Jesus ( Rom5:1 ) Peace/reconciliation through Jesus ( 2Cor5:18 ) Peace with mankind ( Eph2:11-17 ) Peace with yourself ( Php4:7-8 ) Jesus spoke of peace about families ( Mt10:21-22 ; 10:34-37 ) 21 “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child;…

Lesson 11. An Ordered Life Paul adds an ordered life as another response from those who receive God's blessings of salvation. ( Ephesians 5:22-6:9 ) Intro - Review Man’s obligations in response to God’s offer of spiritual blessings: Obligations of the church in response to God’s offer A. Unity B. Righteous…

Husbands & Wives Children & Parents Servants & Masters Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you…

Blessing and Gratitude Numbers 6:24–26 (ESV) The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. an attitude of gratitude will turn the eyes of your heart toward the giver of all good things help…

Welcome back to our series on family matters. As I have said many times before, family does matter. It is the cornerstone of a healthy and strong society. When the family is weak, society crumbles. When the family is healthy, society is stronger. We desire for every family, no matter the makeup, to be…

Convergence 1-18-22 Convergence There is a convergence coming where the breath of God is breathed into humanity. This breath brings a knowing of what it means to be one with Him as Jesus is one. This breath brings a knowing of being human and made in the image of God. This breath brings a knowing of…

Gen 49:5-7; Exo 2:1-10; 6:20; Acts 7:20-22; Heb 11:23-26 In an ideal world filled with sunshine and buttercups, rainbows and butterflies, lemonade and candy, one nice, happy, cookie-cutter family raises children who go on to marry people from other nice, happy, cookie-cutter families, and this story…

Titus 2:4-5 So far, Paul has given Titus guidance for pastors on the island of Crete, and he has given instructions for bad influencers in the church, too. In contrast to their unhealthy teaching, he’s described healthy teaching for older men and women, and all of this teaching centers around the right…

I have a question for you this morning. Why do you come to church? There are many ways we can phrase this question. Why do we gather? What is the purpose? Who are we as believers in Christ? What is the point? Three years ago, two things happened that brought this church into a position to begin asking…

There are striking connections and parallels between a human family and the church. First, the church is a family - a spiritual family. We are brothers and sisters to one another. We reach and teach spiritual children. We enjoy a close relationship with God as our Father. Christ himself said: For whoever…

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the…

Paul enters into his formal closure of the letter. Nowhere else do we find such a lengthy list of personal greetings by Paul indicating the extensive personal friendships he had, even among the churches he had not visited. Were these some friends he had met in other cities, among other churches that…

Opening Prayer: Heavenly Father, We gather in Your presence today with hearts open to Your wisdom and guidance. We thank You for the gift of this gather together with the opportunity to come together to learn and grow in Your Word. Lord, today we seek to understand more deeply the importance of communication…

Introduction Spiritual Blessings (v1-14) Paul’s First Prayer (v15-23) You Were Dead, but Now Alive (2:1-10) You were Far Off, but Now Nigh (v11-22) What was Mystery is Now Known (3:1-13) Paul’s Second Prayer (v3:14-21) We began a new phase in Paul’s letter this past Sunday night. The first three chapters…

God creates environments for His creation that fosters their flourishing.

Intro: We are in Daniel chapter 11, which is a vision of future events, given to Daniel by an Angel, that covers a span of several hundred years and then jumps thousands of years into the future. Most of what is listed in this chapter, even though it was all future events for Daniel, has now become historical…