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Why does Jesus take Center stage? Introduction Turn in your Bibles to Matthew 3:13 . While you are turning their I want you to think about a simple question. Since Jesus is sinless, He always has been always will be sinless. Then why does Jesus need to be baptized by John who is baptizing people who…

Introduction Isaiah 9 is a passage that is usually associated with Christmas (esp. 9:6-7) It’s actually climax of messages that begin in Isaiah 8 In this section there are 4 messages and 2 moments of reflection First 3 messages calling Israel to repentance & encouraging Isaiah & remnant 1st reflection…

Evidence Gatherers You are commissioned to be evidence gatherers for Christ. Be more intentional about what God has said in the people around us to help explain and help them gather evidence that is true. Activation: Jesus what is something You are teaching me about who You are? Tell the person with…

Spiritual Beings Today we are going to finish up this detailed study of spiritual beings. We have been making our way through a Bible Project study of the Elohim in the Bible. In the first week we learned that “Elohim” is the Hebrew word for “Spiritual Beings.” The word “Elohim” was also used as a name…

Review Tanakh Brit Hadoshah Eber (ebur) I AM (grafted) Brit Chadasha will have life Brit Chadashah: Introduction 18 Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon; and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty. A New Moon 36 His seed shall endure forever, And his throne as the sun before…

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 New theme for month of April “The Power of the Holy Spirit” Let us not forget our annual theme of “Spiritually Mature in Truth” The Comforter “One who is called along side of with a view of helping” Two simple objectives for today Who is the Holy Spirit / Ghost / Comforter /Helper /Spirit…

Evidence Gatherers You are commissioned to be evidence gatherers for Christ. Be more intentional about what God has said in the people around us to help explain and help them gather evidence that is true. Activation: Jesus what is something You are teaching me about who You are? Tell the person with…

John the Baptist passed the baton to Jesus after he correctly identifies him as the Messiah, God With Us. We finished up Matthew Chapter 3 in our Series on The Gospel of Matthew.

Jason's first sermon, taking the third topic in the series The Offices of Christ. Audio quality was not great at the start

INTRODUCTION . Peace = a state of tranquility or wholeness . We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. Thomas Merton (Trappist Monk and Writer) 1 But there will be no more gloom for her who…

An Eternal Kingdom And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. I a dream given to King Nebuchadnezzar, God…

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…

Torah Portion: Leviticus 21:1-24:23 Haftarah: Ezekiel 44:15-31 Review Shemini mikvah Tzaraat lashon hara The Great Day - HaGadol Picture of Torah Readings Summary of the Passover Torah Readings Picture of the two prophecies. dry bones and Ingathering A Holy People Nakedness Picture Love Others as yourself…

What is the difference between two Christians who belong to the same church and two Christians who belong to different churches? This is a great questions for getting to the hear of what the local church and its membership are. Let’s think about this a little more… Pastor Mike belongs First Baptist of…

Evidence Gatherers You are commissioned to be evidence gatherers for Christ. Be more intentional about what God has said in the people around us to help explain and help them gather evidence that is true. Activation: Jesus what is something You are teaching me about who You are? Tell the person with…

When he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee. He left Nazareth and went to live in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, along the road by the sea, beyond…

Experience visiting Light of Salvation In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea Judea is south Israel, Galilee is N Israel and saying, “Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near!” The Messiah is coming For he is the one spoken of through the prophet Isaiah,…

1 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’ ” 4…

Tomorrow is the day that many will resolve to change something about themselves in 2024. I saw a news piece that claimed the 3 most common resolutions are physical , financial and emotional . But if A.W. Tozer is correct that “What comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing…

Noah’s Sacrifice and God’s Blessing 20 And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and he took from all the clean animals and from all the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said to himself, “Never again will I curse the ground for the…

John 5:31-47 30 I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me. 31 “If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. 32 There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which…

Intro 1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. Jesus was led by the spirit… He was focused on the Lord. He went out to Fast. The purpose of the leading was to be “tempted of…

The Prayer Jesus taught his disciples to pray: One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” He said to them, “When you pray, say: “ ‘Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give…

“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.”…