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Last week we spent some time looking at how hope has come for everyone. This week we are looking at how peace has come for everyone! We talked last week about how Jesus came as a hope for the gentiles. Michele Ivans brought up a point after the message that I really didn’t drive home as sometimes we…

Easter and Christmas are probably the most significant days in the Christian faith. The birth of Jesus and His resurrection, major components of the gospel. Instead of spending just one week focusing on the Easter event, I wanted us to spend a few weeks after Easter reflecting on the resurrection and…

Announce Business Meeting! March 17, 2024 after Sun PM service Hand out proposed bylaw updates Who Is Paul? As we get started studying 1 Corinthians, one of the most important things we can do is learn about who the author is. 1 Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our…

35 “This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36 This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.…

The Lord’s Supper If you have trusted in Christ in save you from your sins, then you are welcome to participate. There are at least three things that you ought to do during this time: Examine yourself and confess known sin - commit to getting right with someone else after the service if necessary Remember…

Introduction We have come to the last message on our March theme of Growing in Grace For today’s message titled “Grace for Every Season” Thesis Statement : As followers of Christ, we are called to be faithful and share the message of God's saving grace at all times, whether it is convenient or not. but…

Introduction Read: Act. 6:8-7:2 Summarize: ( Act. 7:3-50 ) The envy of the Patriarchs (7:9) Their Rejection of Moses (7:35) Their Disobedient Hearts (7:39) Their Idolatry (7:41) Their Ignorance of Scripture (7:47-50) Read Act. 7:51-60 Today in recognition of Memorial Day, I want to examine one of the…

Isaiah 66 Good evening Saints! Just a reminder that this is our last Wednesday evening service for awhile as we are kicking off our Fall Growth Group session next week. 1 Thus says the Lord : “Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the…

I titled the message “Tough Love”, but in the case of our text this morning, tough love does not mean what people usually mean by it. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with the terminology Tough Love. This is because often times what people mean by tough love is not really love at all. What many people…

Prayer is coming into communication with the living and active God... Prayers moves us from the: Physical to the Spiritual Temporal to the Eternal From self-focus to God-focus This week we are going to look at the NT How Not to Pray 5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to…

Intro This morning we continue in the book of Romans. We have been looking over the last few weeks of this 12th chapter of the book of Romans with the theme - why not now. Why not now, live your life for Christ? We make a choice every day, and in reality, multiple choices throughout the day in regards…

A Glimpse of Heaven Text : Rev. 21:1-4 and Rev. 22:1-5 1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. 2 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for…

Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. Stephen’s message was blasphemy. ‘ His message challenged the status quo… the land, the law, the temple…. but it was received as an attack on the Jewish people generally and specifically. Stephen wanted to open up…

Standing firm in what we heard and believed from God. Did Jesus give Himself as a firstfruit and stop standing in believing more fruit to come? 1 Corinthians 15:20 (NASB95) 20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. No. Jesus was believing there would be…

1 Timothy 2:8-3:9 Good morning Church! I want to welcome you all here this morning. If you are brand new here, especially if you were with us last weekend, you might be looking around wondering in fear if you missed the rapture with all of our godly women, well not all, but the majority of our women…

Morning 2nd April 2023

Text Reading: Acts 8:1-4 . Title: Cultivate Love Review & Summary Saul made havock of the church. Last week, I turned my attention to the brief phrase in vs. 3: Acts 8:3 (KJV 1900) As for Saul, he made havock of the church , entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.…

Today we are looking at what happened with Stephen, often called the first martyr of the church, in that he was the first to die for proclaiming salvation through Jesus Christ. As we look at the account of what took place with Stephen, there is a lot we can take away from it for our own lives. So today,…

Text Reading: Acts 8:1-4 . Title: Havoc in the Church Review & Summary Stephen preached; he gave the high priest and the religious leaders a history lesson that they could not forget! However, their hearts were hardened. They could not hear; they could not receive the truth. So, when conviction set in,…

Stephen: A Man Full of Grace The Scripture tells us that Stephen was a man who was full of faith and power and did great wonders and miracles among the people. And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. Growth in Church Now, before this we should not an interesting…

We have finished up the gospels and history books of the New Testament. We will now begin our study of the 21 (or 22) epistles. “Epistle” means letter. 13 or the 21 epistles were written by Paul (sort of) A review of the five categories of literature found in the New Testament. 1. Gospels Matthew, Mark,…

Acts 11:19-30

Does scripture support a tri-nature part of humanity? Looking at how we are created, in the image and likeness of God…makes one ponder does that mean we also have a tri-nature like God? In some ways, we think of humans as body, and we shouldn’t look over the fact that there is an immortal soul with each…

11 “Now when they bring you to the synagogues and magistrates and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you should say. 12 For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.” 20 But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good,…

We've come to the end of Acts and we summarised it from the perspective that it's a Spirit-empowered, boundary-crossing GROWTH story. It encourages us in our faith journey of growth, and as we boldly share the gospel.