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Last week I asked a rather provocative question. If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, what would you do? What would you say? This is the context of the last two I AM statements of Christ. It is his last night with his disciples before he is betrayed, arrested, and hung on a cross. He is sharing…

TRUE LOVE Goal of the Message: That God’s Spirit move us to be at rest with ourselves and show Christian love to others through our actions. For the past couple weeks John has been addressing us as “children of God.” This evening again he says, “Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but…

Opening Prayer: Heavenly Father, As we come together, we humbly bow before You, acknowledging Your sovereignty and majesty. As we delve into Your Word, we ask for Your guidance. Open our hearts to receive Your truth with humility. May Your Spirit stir within us a deeper understanding of what it means…

I thought about taking the easier route this morning and digging in to the Gospel reading for my sermon today, but the story of the Ethiophian eunuch is just too tempting to pass up - and suspect you’ve heard more sermons on abiding in the vine than you have about the Ethiopian eunuch! I’ve got a terrible…

Jesus is the True Vine, stay apart of the True Vine and He will produce much fruit in you

John 15:7–11 (ESV) 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love . 10 If you keep my commandments,…

Cultivate a Soft and Generous Heart, Especially with Your Finances, to be Free, Fruitful and Fuel the Mission of Christ.

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.“…

ILLUST - IT issue - “is it plugged in?” reliance on electricity, power, internet, Read John 15:1-11 - Vine and Branches The metaphor of the Vine Father - the gardener, vineyard keeper Jesus - the Vine, the source of nourishment and strength Believers - branches - purpose is to bear fruit This vine -…

Read practicing the way pages 2-3 We’re so familiar with this reading that it’s easy to miss just how strange it is. What would make Simon step away from his life - his work, his family, his friends, and follow Jesus into unknown territory just like that? Let’s go back a couple of steps. Jesus was a…

Good Morning. I am so glad that we can be here together. Today is Palm Sunday. The day we celebrate and look at the triumphal entry of Jesus to to Jerusalem. The journey is almost over. We return though to our series on the Farewell message of Jesus before he is arrested. In John 17 we see that Jesus…

Through the spirit of love, we can find peace, hope, and purpose as we strive toward spiritual maturity in truth.

The Purpose Fascination - Discovery - Identity - Authenticity One day, Napoleon was speaking of the Divinity of Christ; when General Bertrand said:— “I can not conceive, sire, how a great man like you can believe that the Supreme Being ever exhibited himself to men under a human form, with a body, a…

There was this Hell's Angel riding down the road on his motorcycle last winter. He was wearing a leather jacket that had a broken zipper. He finally stopped the bike and thought to himself, "Man, I can't drive anymore with the cold air hitting me in my chest." So he decided to put the coat on backwards…

How many of us has had our CC numbers taken or been scammed? This week I bought $300 airpods to be sent to CA.. I’d like to start with an illustration from Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell Juan Zamora of Richland, Washington, owed a bill he could not pay for a charge he did not make. After filling up…

We love one another. Over the past few weeks - and on the way to Ascension Day and Pentecost. We have been reading 1 John. Reminding ourselves about how to live: 7 but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us…

TRUE LOVE Goal of the Message: That God’s Spirit move us to be at rest with ourselves and show Christian love to others through our actions. For the past couple Sundays John has been addressing us as “children of God.” Today again he says, “Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with…

A man and woman thought they needed to go to couples counseling because, while they had a strong marriage, there was just one thing that drove the wife crazy. So they get in the car and get to the office and the first thing the counselor says, “So, what brought you here today?” The wife immediately speaks…

The motivation For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. We have started a journey to…

3rdSunday of Advent -- Joy Reading: Luke 2:8-14 Introduction: Not a comprehensive study of the expansive subject of joy, but a practical look at how we can experience joy during the time of advent; of waiting for Jesus to return, even as the world around us spins more and more into chaos. I. The Value…

I want to begin this morning with an anonymous story I found online “While watching a little TV on Sunday instead of going to church, I watched a church in Atlanta honoring one of its senior pastors who had been retired many years. He was 92 at that time and I wondered why the church even bothered to…

He told many stories in the form of parables, such as this one: “Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seeds. As he scattered them across his field, some seeds fell on a footpath, and the birds came and ate them. Other seeds fell on shallow soil with underlying rock. The seeds sprouted quickly because…

How shall we love? Acts 8:26–40 ; Psalm 22:25–31 ; 1 John 4:7–21 ; John 15:1–8 From Easter Day through to Pentecost we remember how the earliest church waited for the power of the Holy Spirit as Jesus had instructed them: 4 While staying with them, he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait…

1 John 1:5-2:2 Good morning church! Welcome back to all of the ladies that were at the retreat last weekend, we missed you and are glad that your here this morning. The men would like to ask all of you to return the favor and begin to pray for our retreat in September as we did for yours as there is…

Opening Prayer Symbol of Lent - Crown of Thorns Music ministry 195 Nothing But The Blood (v3) 419 Abide With Me (1,2,3,4) 349 Trust and Obey (1,2,5) Holy Forever Word of God - John 15:1-11 1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes…