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We live in a negative world. We are consistently bombarded by voices of discouragement. It’s not just about global, political, or economic issues either. Kids at school get made fun of for not being the smartest in the class, not being the most popular, or simply being different. The internet is filled…

Wed we began this short series of God’s not Dead with the message God’s Transforming Lives. We discussed how we have to through off the past, allow God to change the way we think and then put on our new selves. A pastor got a letter “Dear Pastor. I’m very discouraged and I’m really hurting at this time.…

Titus 1-2 Good morning church! We are starting a short little letter this morning by the name of Titus. Just so you are aware, we will move through this book quickly as much of the material is similar to what we saw in 1 and 2 Timothy. Titus 1:1–4 (NKJV) 1 Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of…

A friend once called a few house painters to his house for some work. He wanted them to paint his porch. After a few hours, the house painters came back for the payment as their work was complete. Before leaving they told my friend that they had enjoyed painting his car, but it is not really a Porsche.…

How do you view suffering? How does God view our suffering? A means to show his glory. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with…

Happy Mother’s Day! Good morning church! And welcome back to our ladies, we hope you were blessed last weekend if you were able to attend the ladies conference down in Freeport, but we are really blessed to have you back. To all our Mom’s, Happy Mother’s Day! Proverbs 31 is a collection of sayings of…

Family Values Core Values: There are many values we live our lives by, but most of the time you can get them down to a few core values you live by. Core Values are why you shop where you do. Core Values are why you like some people and other you dont. Core Values are leading your life’s choices even…

18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. 20…

Introduction Outside of the Church Inside of the Church Inside of you Trouble in My Way For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within. Paul’s problems Our problem Fueled hatred Covid We are afflicted in every way, but…

Therefore having these promises! Promised reconciliation to God and restored relationship with one another is the theme over the last few weeks in our study of 2Corinthians. The Christians assurance we have when reconciled to God (2Cor5:1-11) This marvelous ministry of reconciliation (2Cor5:12-21) The…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…

Where do we start? 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever. What do we tend to fear? The unknown…

Introduction I began to name this the ‘Bible Person Study’, but chose to go with the ‘Bible Character Study’. I hesitated to name it that, as I don’t want to diminish the fact that these are real people we’ll be examining. But the reason that it’s named the Bible Character Study is because we’ll be focusing…

Mission Control “This is Paul, I’m ready to go again.” Paul has returned to Antioch after this trip, just as he had his first missionary trip. Between trip one and trip two a two year interval passed, but a trip to Jerusalem did happen for Jerusalem counsel Paul did spend sometime, but not long in Antioch…

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…

diōgmos ( διωγμός) The Refining Fire Of Persecution Introduction: Good morning, church! Today, we are going to delve into a subject that may challenge us but will also encourage us to grow deeper in our faith. The Bible tells us that as believers, persecution is not something to be feared but embraced…

Peace, Shalom, Eirene Peace (Oxford) Freedom from disturbance; tranquility; A state or period in which there is no war or war has ended. Peace in Hebrew: Shalom: completeness, soundness, welfare, peace (Hebrew dictionary) Peace in Greek: Eirene, refers to inner tranquility and poise of the Christian…

Foundations are the most important thing yet often unseen part of any ediface. If the foundation of a building is not sound then the building will collapse when placed under stress. But if the foundations is sound then the building can withstand extreme stress. Cultures have foundations. These are the…

? ! . In English, there are 16 punctuation marks — the period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, semicolon, colon, em dash, en dash, hyphen, parentheses, brackets, braces, apostrophe, double quotation marks, single quotation marks, and ellipsis — and they’re not as scary as they sound. . The .…

Season of preparation… season of getting ready. Who’d ready for Christmas? Christmas is coming, but even more importantly, Jesus is coming. Now one of those is good news… We are excited to think that Jesus is coming back… our world is in such a mess. How we long for that to be. But Christmas???? We just…

We Are Not Ignorant Here me this morning before we even get into the text… some of you, some of us have been in a spiritual battle. Some of us are currently in a spiritual battle. Some of us are fighting the devil right now. Some of us were fighting the devil just to make it to church this morning. Here…

Genesis 3:14-15 Dec 17, 1927 8 year old S class submarine conducting tests off coast of MA. 2273 Any Hope Of Rescue? Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Years ago the S-4 submarine was rammed…

God dispersed the people for their own good, then later He united the peoples out of His mercy.

Does anyone know what this picture represents? This might be the most amazing data picture you see in a lifetime! It shows the 63,779 cross-references in the Bible. The white bars along the bottom represent each Bible chapter, Gen. 1 - Rev. 22 . The line’s color shows the reference’s distance from the…

2 Corinthians 5:1-15 1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed,…