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Today, we begin our MidWeek Advent series this year entitled “Christmas Trees.” This theme is meant to convey that we are looking at various trees in the Bible that point us to Christ in various ways. Each week we will look at a real, historical event, to learn what it teaches us about God’s Son, Jesus…

TEXT: GALATIANS 5:2-12 | SOMETHING SIMILAR ISN’T THE SAME INTRO ILLUSTRATION : A while ago, we had some friends that came out and as is the norm for people out of town visiting, they wanted to go to Yellowstone. We weren’t able to go with them on this trip, which was fine as they were able to make there…

Genesis 2:18-25 By familiarizing ourselves with Genesis, esp. the first two chapters, we can reaffirm God’s purpose for our lives. And it is important that we reaffirm God’s purpose for what we will look at today – the foundational institution of marriage – because we have certainly lost our way as a…

His Needs, Her Needs Love Bank Differing Needs Unmet Needs God’s Design to fill those needs God’s design for love creates the greatest romances! Classic romances and fairy tail endings are wonderful. We all long to see romantic love be genuine, spontaneous, and everlasting. That’s why we say, “and they…

Intro: The Mission Games: “To give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.” FACEBOOK “To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” GOOGLE “To inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time.“…

Introduction In a world that often blurs the lines between gender roles, the concept of biblical complementarity becomes more critical than ever. Especially with so many Christians having grown up in a family environment that is completely alien to what the Bible prescribes. And as someone who grew up…

Genesis 3:1-13 We are going to start a new series today entitled The Hold of Shame. This three-part series addresses the realization that shame can trap us in harmful secrets, struggles, and circumstances. Shame often pushes us to withdraw into isolation and focus on our perceived failures. This series…

15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 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…

It wasn’t my fault! It wasn’t my fault! You stand in the living room. It had been clean and tidy a few hours ago. It is now anything but. Three children stand there… guilty looks on their faces. It wasn’t my fault. Each in turn explain how they were drawn into the action that had recently taken place.…

1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the…

Intro: Today we look at Genesis 3 and the fall. This is a massively important passage as it a pivotal point in the history of the world. So much of the world changes in this chapter. Today’s sermon is not a study of all the ways Genesis 3 changes things, but a look at how God’s response in this chapter.…

Conflict is endemic in our world: beauty marred by agony. Conflict makes for great drama, but is it just conflict that excites us? In the third chapter of the Bible, we find the origin of all conflict. What really happened? How could this ancient conflict still be resounding eons later? Join Malcolm as he explores the epochal story of Adam and Eve at the tree of knowledge.

Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost GOSPEL Mark 10:2-16 2 Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 3 “What did Moses command you?” he replied. 4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.” 5 “It was because your…

“Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.” -Thomas Watson Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”…

Today we are going to walk through a series on marriage and family. Marriage and family are the bedrock of every society. The healthier our marriages are, the healthier our families will be, and the healthier our society will be. Wherever you buy books from, there are sure to be countless books on marriage,…

Heliocentrism For a few centuries before Jesus came to earth, a number of Greek philosophers, including Aristotle, started taking an interest in science and how the world worked. You might actually be interested to know that contrary to popular opinion, even in this time before Jesus, they actually figured…

Today we are wrapping up this six part study of the Good News called, “Life in 6 Words.” We get these six words by using the word “Gospel” as an acrostic. As a way of review, let’s walk through these six words one final time… G - God created us to be with Him. ( Genesis 1-2 ) O - Our sins separate us…

Intro Series called it’s complicated but it doesn’t have to be complicated if we do it God’s way. The series titled kind of defines what our relationships look like, not only at home but at work and in really every relationship we have. But it’s doesn’t have to be complicated. Things become complicated…

Jack Handey, known for his odd sense of humor frequently expressed in an old Saturday Night Live segment titled "Deep Thoughts," wrote an equally odd book entitled Fuzzy Memories . In it Handey relates the story of a bully who demanded his lunch money every day when he was a child. Because Handey was…

I stand before you today as someone who is addicted. I’m addicted to a lot of things. You all know about my ice cream addiction. We joke and laugh about that. But, we could talk about my desire to please people. We could talk about my past with pornography. I actually had to go through an addiction recovery…

The Gospel According to Genesis Today, we will deal with a few passages from the book of Genesis that teach us about the prophetic text concerning our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. As we approach the days to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, we must learn about the prophetic texts that teach…

1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the…

1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the…

The book of James was written to a scattered church and we are still a scattered church… have been since COVID. James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings. People got used to not being in church and many have not gone back. Today…

Her Temptation Genesis 2 ends with a succinct description of the innocence of Eden’s paradise: “They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed” (v. 25 NKJV). 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. Genesis 3 then introduces the tempter, a serpent. This is clearly…