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Evening 10th July 2022

Opening thought Was God lonely? Is that why he created us? Oneness of God in the Old Testament In my reading this fall, I ran across a discussion of Old Testament truth that God is One verse the New testament idea of the Trinity. I thought I would start today 1st day of the year 1st week of the year…

Evening 12th June 2022

One God Throughout scripture, God at times shows himself superior than the gods of the pagans. He shows himself superior to powerful kings and Pharaohs. You are familiar with many of them. Certainly Exodus records how God showed himself powerful. In many of the battles of nations against Israel, God…

We are continue our series this morning Convictions: What We Believe. Do Christians have nonnegotiable beliefs, and if so, what are they? This eight-week series looks at eight key topics in evangelical theology that all Christians agree about. Our faith will be challenged as we ask ourselves, “When it…

The Only Way Jesus telling His disciples I am going away and Thomas confused asks Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How are we able to know the way?” Jesus tells them Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through…

Our Scripture for Today: We continue to read from the Lectionary today. Our passages come from Isaiah in the Old Testament, the book of Romans in the NT, and then the Gospel reading is from John. From Isaiah we read in Isaiah 6:1-8 : In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne,…

Joy- What does it look like? Joy is rooted in God’s presence and in what he has done. A state of being not grounded in current circumstances but in the character of God. 14 Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem! 15 The Lord has…

We are reminded that the Holy Spirit gathers us into faith in the Father who created us and sent the Son to redeem us. We are encouraged to understand the Trinity more seriously than we do.

None like Him Who is God? Who is God? This one little question can reveal a lot about a person’s beliefs, or even the maturity of their faith. And it’s a question there are many different answers for, depending on who you ask. If you travel to India and ask the question, who is God, you might get a variety…

Attention Getter: Introduce Topic: Jesus is better than the good prophets, therefore we must worship him with our whole selves. Background: Authorship: Paul or Friend of Paul Clement held the tradition of Pauline origin and often cited Hebrews as by Paul or ‘the Apostle’. His successor Origen, however,…

Christ is sufficient for anything a believer may encounter.

Let us pray…as we come before you this morning, we come with hearts full of your love but also full of anxiety, angst, and wonder about what is happening in this world. We ask that in the coming moments that your spirit would enter our hearts, minds, and spirits that we would be able to feel, sense,…

Creator God A. In the Beginning God created 1. A lot of debate over how the world was created 2. Debate among Christians about the creation a. 6 literal days b. others over a much longer period of time c. I don’t know, nor do I think it really matters d. there was no day and night as we know it until…

Trinity is One Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Trinity is One Who is God the Father? Who is God the Son? Jesus Christ Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus because he was doing these things on the…

The Ghost In the Room: October’s Theme The end of October has so much attention on ghosts, ghouls, witches, demons, devils and death. You already know that stuff, of course. You can’t escape it. We carve strange faces in round orange squashes and put lights or candles in them, either to show our own…

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…

In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul starts with a long, powerful sentence of praise for God. God, he says, has poured our spiritual blessings on us. But what is a spiritual blessing? And what spiritual blessings has God given to us? And how do these affect our daily lives? That's what we're looking at here.

Today we will be studying John 14:15-31 . This is a longer passage than we typically cover. However, in this passage, I found that Jesus is repeating two main concepts as he is seeking to comfort and encourage his disciples. The main concepts we will be considering today are Love, Obedience and Fellowship.…

Have we reached a final age for Christianity, a post-Christian age? Or have we never been in a Christian age at all? The last verses of Acts reveal a startling reality about how Christianity interacts with the surrounding cultures which just might turn our ideas about our nation and its history on their heads.

Our Inheritance in Christ has benefis for both now and eternity.

Welcome! Turn with me please to 2 Cor. 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. The doctrinal understanding of a Trinitarian God is a most important Christian doctrine, yet one most don’t often think about. As Kevin DeYoung…

Who and what is the Holy Spirit and how do we interact with it?

1 Peter 1:1-2 I’m not a fan of roller coasters. From my point of view, it seems crazy and risky to ride them. In recent years, however, I’ve slowly overcome this fear (or hesitation) by riding them as I have opportunity, including my most recent ride on the Sponge Bob Rock Bottom Plunge at Mall of America.…

Our passage for today is John 13:1-17. I encourage you to open your bibles to read the passage with me. This is likely a familiar passage for many of you. What I would ask is that we let go of the thoughts that I have heard this before, and truly look at it with fresh eyes, as it were. When we started…