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Have you ever been less than enthusiastic about doing something? Perhaps you’ve been tapped to be part of leadership for a community group, the local school PTSA, here at our church, or even for our presbytery. When you’re tapped out, what is your typical response? One of the things I love about Moses…

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…

Big Idea - Grumbling and complaining undermine the grace of God and poison the heart. Scripture - Exodus 16 , Numbers 11 , James 1 INTRO: Humans are interesting creatures, we tend to become focused on the negative more than the positive - just look at our newspapers, TV news, any information services…

What is prayer? Communication with God, primarily offered in the second-person voice (addressing God directly). May include petition, entreaty, supplication, thanksgiving, praise, hymns, and lament. Prayer is not exclusive to Christianity, however, The biblical examples of prayer portray Yahweh as a…

1 Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he…

We are continuing our survey of the Old Testament this morning, as we look at the overview of what took place after God revealed Himself to the people of Israel at Mt. Sinai. Each week, we have been asking two main questions. What do we learn about God? What do we learn about mankind, or ourselves? Over…

There’s power in prayer WE as a church community have some big things going on… as a denomination we are being asked to make some pretty big decisions… locally, as a community we are beginning to ask again if we might be better together as one church on one mission in one community… or is it better to…

Intro - Phil 3:13-14 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Do you have any goals for the future? Financial or…

I began with reading this story this morning to remind us of a few things: God hears our cries! God provides people to help us carry the load! At this time the Israelites had been led out of captivity and Egypt and were wondering around in the wilderness. They were obviously hungry and started complaining.…

6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Great initial spiritual blessings are no guarantee of continuing…

Numbers 7-11 Last week in our marathon introduction to the book of Numbers, we left off in a significant spot at the end of chapter 6, so lets look at that again, chapter 6:24... 24 “The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; 26 The Lord lift up…

Me: Grumbling and complaining undermine the grace of God and poison the heart. The movie Grumpy Old Men - I wanted at a clip but they where all way to inappropriate for a sermon Another favorite is the two old codgers from the muppet show. My coworker at Vienna says that us. We love to laugh at this…

“No!” “You can’t!” “It won’t work!” “There is no way.” “We took a vote.” How do you hear it? Do these words give you a sense of victory, or do they give you a sense of defeat? It may depend on whether you’re the one hearing them or the one saying them. Either way the source of these words can often be…

We’ve been moving through CASKET EMPTY, and I don’t want us to lose sight of why we’re doing that. The whole idea of Casket Empty is to recognize God’s redemptive story throughout the Old Testament. Many have wondered did God create the world and then just leave it to run itself, and what we see throughout…

If we’re honest we’re always somewhere on the scale between belief and unbelief. I’ve shared with you many times the Father’s exclamation from Mark 9 when he brings his son to Jesus and asks him to heal him, “if he can.” Jesus responds: And Jesus said to him, “ ‘If you can’! All things are possible for…

Wednesday night we launch REACH! Yes!!!! This church is one of the most valuable things we do as a church. REACH for us is the first touch with families in our area. We bus in approximately 80-100 students under the age of 18. We will feed dinner to 200 people and about 140 will be under the age of 18.…

Intro: We want to become people that others say about us, They were with Jesus... Complaining makes us un-attractive to believers and to unbelievers. It will kill our witness. It will drive people away from us. The problem is that complaining is a difficult habit to break because it’s so easy to do.…

Being The Church Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must…

Late fall has us preparing for winter and celebrating the harvest. For most of us, not living close to the land, it is far more symbolic than it once was, but we still have a vestigial, cultural celebration of harvest. Looking for themes of harvest in the Bible is fruitful (pun intended). We run across…

Hebrews 3:7-19 Have you ever known someone who could barely remember where they put their keys yet could tell you every word of a story from 20 years ago? Our minds hold onto memories, especially those that leave a strong impression. But sometimes we hold onto things we shouldn’t—resentments, fears or…

Intro: Experiencing Gods favor is what every Christian wants. People will go to any length to get favor from someone. Children can spend a life time trying to earn the favor of a parent. Employees can obsess with trying to please a boss of colleague. We all want favor. When we don’t have it we feel depressed…

Opening Prayer: Heavenly Father, We come before You today with grateful hearts, thanking You for the gift of family and the privilege of coming together to seek Your face. As we gather in Your presence, we ask for Your Holy Spirit to be among us, guiding our thoughts and opening our hearts to the message…

A. Rapport for the time What if I told you that there was a God that created the heavens and the Earth and he cares for you this morning. No matter what state you are in this morning, wether you are here because it is the thing to do on a Sunday morning. Or maybe you just come to church with the idea…

We need reminders. We do not always get things right the first time. We must continue to be reminded of what we should know and do know in order to live out our faith well. Life can be exhausting. As a church we know this to be true right now. We have had a long 5 weeks hosting 4 funerals. Church we…

(S1) — SERIES — ENOUGH ALREADY... …asking God to help me to see the GOOD—Trying to keep a perspective of faith that keeps me looking up—my thoughts and my eyes fixed on Jesus. Staying positive is having an unwavering expectation that our loving God is working in every situation for our good! …Stay OPTIMISTIC!…