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Jesus is comforting His disciples before His death “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. Jesus is preparing the disciples for His death The next few days could destroy His closest followers But He is “leaving” soon as well They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed,…

Exegetical Point: Homiletic Point: Intro There is so much confusion in the church about the Holy Spirit. Some churches you could attend for 3 month before you hear them mention the HS, and even then it was so brief that you weren’t quite sure if you heard it. They live and act as if the HS is irrelevant…

The Holy Spirit What do you think about when you think about the Holy Spirit? If we are honest with ourselves, many from our tradition don’t think much about him. He is usually avoided in our circles. We love Jesus. We love the Father, But the third person of the trinity. The Holy Spirit is often overlooked.…

Endure In order to understand what we are going to talk about this morning, we have to really have an idea planted in our brains and in our hearts. Jesus is preparing his followers to be a new community. A community that is set apart. A community that looks different. A community that is teaching and…

Intro Victimhood is the modern currency. How do you gain favor in the eyes of the world? Have the saddest story. Belong to the most marginalized groups. This is seeping into the church even now under the guise of “self care”. Simple wisdom about looking after your own health has turned into self obsession…

12 Therefore, just as tsin came into the world through one man, and udeath through sin, and vso death spread to all men5 because wall sinned— 13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but xsin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over…

Notes In his book God Tells the Man Who Cares , A. W. Tozer observes a dangerous perspective among Christians. “Men think of the world, not as a battleground but as a playground. We are not here to fight, we are here to frolic. We are not in a foreign land, we are at home. We are not getting ready to…

Matthew 5:13–16 (CSB) 13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty? It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. 14 “You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 No one lights…

The Holy Spirit will help Us Convince the World of 3 Truths “But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you. “But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of…

As Jesus prepared to leave the disciples, he reminded them that he was offering them a new Counselor and new comfort. Find out what that means for us today in this message from John 15:25-16:33.

Welcome Good morning everyone! It is good to be back after the weekend away at Skwim. It was a good weekend, no one got hurt, and we learned and talked more about what it means to abide in Jesus, to make him our home, our dwelling place. As we begin this morning, let’s quickly recap were Pastor Dan left…

“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these…

Today is Pentecost Sunday. The day of Pentecost was the day that the Holy spirit descended upon the house where the disciples were and it sounded like a rushing wind. Tongues of fire appeared and rested on each one of the disciples and they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other…

They Will Hate You Jesus told the disciples that the world would hate them I am going away and the world will hate you If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you…

Background: It has been about a year since we were in the Gospel of John. I have been anxious to get back to this book and finish our study. Today, we will be looking at John 15:18-16:4 . If you have your bibles, please open to this passage as we study. As you are turning to the passage. I would like…

Belief: An opinion of judgment in which a person is fully persuaded. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.…

The Life of a Christian 1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 a time to weep,…

Bearing Witness in a World of Hurt This Has Always Been a World of Hurt Plague Histories We Still Believe by Kathryn Scott Lyrics Kathryn Scott: “It is at the end of the day we get to look God in the face and declare: We still Believe.” “We Still Believe” is one way of saying, “We live in trust of God’s…

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…

Jn 13 - 17 an extended account of the last time that Jesus’ kept the Jewish Passover with his disciples The Feast of Passover was commanded by God to ensure that the Israelites did not forget that he had saved them from their slavery in Egypt. in the last judgment upon Egypt the angel of death went through…

1 On the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and 2 Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding as well. 3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother told Him, “They don’t have any wine.” 4 “What has this concern of yours to do with Me, woman?” Jesus asked. “My…

I. Introduction 1. Prayers 2. Scripture memory But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. Title and start Life replicates... According to Nasa “All living things have certain traits in common: Cellular organization, the ability to reproduce, growth & development, energy use,…

Sunday July 9, 2023 The Outpouring The Outpouring of the Spirit Acts 2:4-13 So we have been working through what happened on the day of Pentecost, the festival of Summer First Fruits - the last of the Spring Festivals which now know to associate with the 1st advent only of the Messiah. First, let’s take…

Welcome Prayer Introduction: Jesus commands unity in the Body of Christ. Yet, the Body is often divided by politics, doctrinal differences, worship styles, and social and ethical issues. These divisions erode the unity that Christ desires for his church. While Jesus commands unity, it should never come…