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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…

What is our “Daily” bread? Give us today our daily bread. This seems like the easiest part to interpret, except that we don’t actually know what “daily” means. There are three possible interpretations, and they are all Biblical. Give us today the bread we NEED to SURVIVE . The whole Israelite community…

Making room in my life to listen and respond to the Holy Spirit means that I must declutter my life in order to make room.

Now in looking at Matthew 6:19–34 , we have a very practical portion of Scripture which our Lord outlines for us. He gives principles to eliminate the love of money, principles to remove our affection from moving in that direction. There are four of them. Let me suggest them to you at the outset and…

Introduction Last week we looked at Jesus's blueprint for the Christian's prayer - the Lord's Prayer. The Lord tells us to being our prayer by saying what we want most of all: God's name to be honoured God's kingdom to come God's will to be done Then having made it clear what we want the most, we are…

This morning we’re going to start a series studying the book of James. We’ll start in James 1 and work our way through the whole book. The book of James was written by James the half brother of Jesus (see Matthew 13:55 and Gal. 1:9 ). He was a firsthand witness of the sinless life of Jesus. It’s pretty…

Morning 1 September 24

Today we’re bringing to a close on our series looking at different spiritual rules or practices to draw us closer to Jesus. We’ve covered three so far - the practice of slowing down, or ruthlessly eliminating hurry, finding prayer rhythms that help us to glow in the dark, and last week looked at radical…

Intro ; Throughout the Bible light is contrasted with darkness. God is light ( 1 John 1:5 ), and living in the light refers to living in God’s truth, goodness, and wisdom. On the other hand, living in darkness describes living in sin or living a life apart from God. Paul makes a very clear distinction…

Man, what a fun Sunday! Church I hope you’re as encouraged as I am by what you’ve seen this morning. Mothers, I hope you’re hearts have been blessed by today. If you’re a guest with us I want to say welcome! I know we’ve got a bunch of family here today to celebrate and what a celebration it’s been.…

Introduction New Years Resolutions. Either to begin something or to stop something. But towards some level of transformation. Jesus is calling His disciples to transformation. A deeper relationship. Why we study Scripture. Our goal must never be the bare minimum amount of knowledge necessary to get us…

There is a term used in popular culture today called adulting. This term applies to any responsibility of being an adult. Things like laundry, taking out the trash, getting the oil changed in your car, and paying bills. When I was a substitute teacher, I always asked the juniors and seniors in high school…

Romans 12.1-5 Last week we began a short four week series entitled the Truth about Change. We saw last week that Change is inevitable. For everything there is a season, the Bible tells us, and change must happen in order for those seasons to come. Many are resistant to change, but we just need to accept…

The Battle for Your Heart Remember, John the Baptist welcomed Jesus Christ with the message “Repent for the Kingdom of God is at Hand”. Jesus’ begins teaching about the Kingdom and explains the standards of this new Kingdom, a Holy Kingdom. He begins with The Beatitudes about how we should view ourselves…

Intro; Tennessee Titans’ center, Kevin Long [ 1998-2001 ], who played under Coach Bobby Bowden at Florida State University, said his college coach inspired the team with parables. Kevin recounted a favorite story: [ Bowden ] was playing college baseball, and he had never hit a home run. Finally, he hit…

Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto…

Recap Last time we talked about the basic principle which is where are we laying up our treasures, we covered verses 19-24. We learned that it is not wrong to have wealth, to have investments as long as they do not consume us and we are using them to further God’s kingdom. As Brother Bobby said last…

For the next few messages from me we are going to be talking about faith and God’s provision, and where is our faith placed. But before we dive into the text we need to understand what that word means, so I have a definition and then I also have some information from some surveys done to show us where…

Kids are going back to school. Some are looking forward to it some are not. If FB is right, most if not all parents are looking forward to it. I always liked school, because it meant football season was here and I got to see all of my friends. But not everyone likes for school to start. One guy said…

Introduction: What things are you passionate about? Do you love to fish? Do you love golfing? Do you love going to the gym or hanging out with friends? Maybe you love gaming or hanging out with friends? Have you noticed that the things we are passionate about will always find time in our schedule and…

Prayer Do-Nots do not be like hypocrites do not heap up empty phrases Pharisees and Gentiles - grouped together heap empty phrases - many useless and pointless words 26 And they took the bull that was given them, and they prepared it and called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “O…

Good morning! Thank Rayce…at the end? I can’t help but hear that passage and think of Finding Nemo. You guys seen Finding Nemo? It’s the movie where they try to find Nemo. They find him. At one point in the story, Nemo the fish ends up in a small fish tank at a dentist’s office. And in this fish tank…

The Light of the World SET TIMER Introduce yourself, Kingdom Series, Bible App, Prayer. I don’t know if everyone knows this or not, but one of the things I’m doing is taking classes online to get my Master of Divinity. I just finished up for the semester last week. And one of the classes I took this…

The speaker provides an overview of the Sermon on the Mount and different interpretational approaches to the Sermon. He demonstrates that the Sermon is Jesus' blueprint for His Kingdom of Transformed Hearts

Can you believe that Easter is less than two months away? It will be here before you know it. When I was a kid I loved Easter Egg Hunts. We would go over to my grandparents house and my cousins and myself and my sister would hunt eggs all afternoon. It would start out with the parents hiding eggs and…