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The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”…

We continue on our journey to understand our identity. The point to this is to give you an understanding of value. Not a puffed up vain sense of value that has it’s roots in the idolatrous notion of self-esteem where we look at ourselves and try to puff ourselves up. But in looking at ourselves through…

How many of you remember the weird kid in school? It doesn’t matter what graduating class you belong to. It doesn’t matter how big or small your school was. I bet there was at least one weird kid in the school and everybody knew who it was. This was the social outcast. The kid who might sit by himself…

Unexpected Blessing We’ve been following Jacob in this series about identity. Jacob struggled with a bit of an identity crisis from before the time he was born. His brother, Esau, didn’t put much stock in his identity and actually sold his own birth right as first born son for a bowl of beans. Last week…

In The Middle of Nowhere The title of the message today is “In the Middle of Nowhere”. It makes me think about a story about a guy who went on a hiking trip in the mountains on his vacation… Before heading into the wilderness, he stops at a small town general store to get some supplies. After picking…

Sacrificing for Soup Before we get started I want to warn you that you might get hungry today because we will be talking about food quite a bit. Today we are continuing the “Identity” series. Last week we kicked it off by talking about the identity crisis we face on a daily basis. Every day we are faced…

Story of two believers Theology matters Ephesians 1:11-14 Perseverance of the saints What it is Romans 4:21 21 fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. Simply speaking, perseverance of the saints, is believing that God is able to do what He said He would do. It is having faith that…

MY NAME IS: ? Today we will finish the Identity series. This has been a fun series where we have studied “Identity” through the experiences of Jacob and his family. They all faced varying degrees of an identity crisis at some point in their lives just like we face an identity crisis in our lives today.…

I have another dad joke for you this morning to kick off today’s topic. Someone once said, “ I am very upset with my mom. When I was growing up she told me, ‘You can be whoever you want to be.’ That’s not true. Turns out Identity Theft is a crime! ” Today we are starting a new series called “Identity”.…

Issue of Identity Did you know that we’re soon set to reach a world population of 8 billion people? When I checked the world population clock this morning, we were at 7 billion, 970 million, 555 thousand, and counting. That’s getting pretty close to 8 billion! Imagine if you had that amount of money…

God cares more about who you are than about who others think you are.

1 Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord . So the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years, 4 Then they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep nor ox nor donkey. 6 So Israel…

18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” 19 Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called…

Islands of Joy Today, we look into how to become people who are islands of joy.

We are going to recap all the Islands series and then make space for you to share what God has shown you. Islands #1 We have a world that seems to be falling apart all around us. When Empires fall it’s islands of sanity that are the hope for humanity. When our gut is telling us something is about to…

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him…

Ten I am Statements 7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced…

How would you define love? There was a movie made by Disney over 14 years ago, with a song called: How does she know that you love her. How does someone show love? I realize that I am late to the ball game for this sermon. Every September or October, I set aside a week to prepare my preaching calendar…

The distinctions of His Church so far. We introduced aim the the series: to look at the distinctions of the church that Jesus built vs. others using historical, and biblical proof. We then looked at the existence of God followed by the Identity of God. WHen it came to existence there is the Atheists/Agnostics…

What forms our conduct? 16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. I am God’s temple. We, the church, are God’s temple. Unity as God’s temple. 1 This is…

(Intro Music starts with first slide - read intro and move forward) Welcome to Apologetics and the Gospel. My name is Pastor Jonathan White, and I am the Lead Pastor at CrossPointe Family Church in Winfield, WV as well as a practicing Emergency Medicine Physician. Question for Today: Is Gender Fluid?…

This passage is about our God-given identity . We live in a world that talks a lot about our identity being found in how we feel, what we do, our ethnicity and many other ways. Yet our true identity lies in God alone, given to us through the reconciliation of Jesus, the All in All. Live, then, in the…

His Kingdom Come / Sovereignty; Nationality and Political Identity / Daniel 1:1–21 Uprooted and taken away from home, Daniel and his friends enroll in Babylon University under King Nebuchadnezzar's care. During their first day of orientation, they must decide to trust God or go along with the nation. Our identity is contingent on who we let into our story. To choose God is to disown Babylon and trust God's total control of our situation.

Imagine a piece of coal, dark and lifeless, lying deep within the earth. It seems ordinary, unremarkable, and destined to remain that way forever. But then, a miraculous transformation occurs. Through intense heat and pressure, that coal is transformed into a magnificent diamond, sparkling with brilliance…