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Christian artist Shai Linne in his introduction to doxology wrote these words, Theology is the study of God and it's very important; Doxology is an expression of praise to God So, the point here is that all theology should ultimately lead to doxology If theology doesn't lead to doxology, then we've actually…

God’s Heart Is... is a theme title that God gave when I was preparing the message for July 10, when I preached God’s Heart Is Freedom From Injustice . When I prepared the video message for July 17, it was that God’s Heart Is That We Know Him . Then last week, God’s Heart Is That We Would Experience His…

Big Idea: God’s love casts out your fear, let it! God’s love casts out your fear, let it! All Christians risk falling into a trap. Each day that passes takes with it what we have done or didn’t do. Once a moment is past, it cannot be redeemed, we are simply enslaved to move on to the next moment, and…

Knowing God, Knowing Love The message that God put into my mind as I was awaking on Wednesday morning is what I will share this morning, on this Mother’s Day when we remember and celebrate all that is best about our own mothers’ love or the idea of motherhood, in case we didn’t experience it directly…

Origin Three points may be made about John’s description of God as “love.” (a) Its background is the Jewish (OT) understanding of God as living, personal and active, rather than the Greek concept of deity which was abstract in character. (b) To assert comprehensively that “God is love” does not ignore…

Isaiah prophesied many times about Jesus, and one of those prophecies was this: There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might,…

The Source 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is…

New Year, Same Mission

Love In Swaddling Clothes Welcome to the fourth Sunday of Advent. What an amazing season it is as we journey together toward Christmas. And so we use these weeks leading up to Christmas as a chance to look forward with great expectation to the coming of Christ as we embark on a journey of hope, love,…

Power is appealing. Those who have it don’t want to lose it. Those who don’t have it will try and get it. Power is also very subtle and sometimes we do not even know its influence on us until we stop and reflect. Relationships are powerful. We were created to live in community with others. The role of…

The Nature of God - God is Love 1 John 4:1-6 Test the Spirits 1 John 4:1 “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” δοκιμαζω - examine, test, approve. Matt 7:15 ““Beware of false prophets, who come to…

INTRO GOES HERE Scripture instructs God’s people to love one another and illustrates what this means in practice. Why Love One Another God Commands Us To Love For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against…

How big is your table? Haircut - I love thanksgiving because it is all about family! When I think about our church, I think about family! Goal from deacons - unity Thanksgiving is a time for us to come together as family! And when we do so, it’s because we love each other! So, how big is our table? Are…

24 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. What was heard from the beginning? 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked…

Defined and Delivered (by the Love of God ) 1 John 4: 7-10 Our text this morning, again deals with the continuing theme of love that John has presented throughout this epistle. In fact, the remaining verses of this chapter deal with love. Love, it has been said, has many faces. People see it in all sorts…

The extent a parent would go for their child... Roof of a Burning Building The Christmas story shows us the WONDER of God’s LOVE for us One of the observations we can see is that the Wonder of Christmas is expressed through the fact that God made the first move in loving us... The disciple named John…

(Farmer story) There were once two old farmers. They’re neighbors, but they have a feud that’s been running for a few years. They haven’t even spoken to each other in that time. The whole thing got started over a cat. The cat was a stray, but both of these farmers began feeding the cat and claimed it…

This is our 3rd week in the teaching portion of our EMPTY acronym, our flyover of the New Testament. It’s a 40,000 foot flyover, but its giving us a sense of the overarching message of redemption and seeing the connections of the New Testament back to the Old, and the flow of the story from Genesis on.…

Introduction Lets start with a passage out of the Johns 1st Letter 1 John 2:18 (NASB95) 18 Children, it is the last hour; ... Pastor Ben spoke last week about john and the early church bringing to light . Words like syncretism Gnosticism and Political Correctness We are not going to veer off from Bens…

Intro: Last week we talked about how our redemption should motivate us to live our lives in a way that honors and brings glory to Our Redeemer, Our Living Hope, Jesus Christ. Today we are going to dig a little deeper and focus on what “Redeemed Living” looks like… The Apostle Paul tells us in Romans…

INTRODUCTION How is the world to know that we are truly disciples of Christ, members of His body? Is it by the name we wear? Is it by having the right doctrine, organization, worship, etc.? It is certainly important to have all these things; but if we think... That by these things alone we are truly…

Love, it has been said, has many faces. People see it in all sorts of shapes and sizes. I think it is interesting to note that sometimes we see it more clearly, not through the eyes of adults, but through the eyes of children. A group of children were posed the following question: “What does love mean?”…

God is the SOURCE of Love. God SHOWS us what love is. Our love for others bears WITNESS.

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through…

Who is someone that you love deeply? Why do you love them? If you have a list of all the reasons you love someone, you don’t really love them. You love yourself, and these reasons only tell you the ways that person pleases you. For example, G.K. Chesterton said you could pick a place, let’s say Portland,…