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Opening Prayer: Good morning, today's message is entitled “A New Vision?” The verse is Proverbs 29:18 ; Matt 16:16 , 18 ; 1 Cor 2:1-5 ; With the New Year 2024 coming tomorrow, well you know the drill, renewal, revitalization, recommencement, re invite and reset all resolutions and start again. Often…

Intro Talk about families. How many of you shudder at the thought of all the family gatherings during the holidays? During the holiday season, we will all spend more time with family that we do the rest of the year. Someone once said this about family… It’s good to see them come and it’s good to see…

Watch out for Pride! It is good to be back with you. Jennifer Jaida and I spent some time with my family over the past few weeks and it was good to be with them, but we missed our church family. So, it is wonderful to see you this morning. Today I want to talk to you about the folly of Pride and its…

Many of us remember a rhyme from our grade school playground: “Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me.” We all probably know that this rhyme is not entirely true. Robert Fulghum in his book, All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, turned that phrase a bit…

The Importance of Counsel . Without counsel: Errors are made Where no counsel is, the people fall: But in the multitude of counsellers there is safety. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: But he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise. Without counsel: Endeavors are missed Without counsel purposes…

INTRO EXPLANATION : The exact timing of when the events here in Galatians 2 we are about to look at actually took place is debated. I believe it took place following the events of Acts 15 when Paul and Barnabas made their way to Jerusalem because there was some that came over to Antioch and began to…

INTRO ILLUSTRATION : A relative on my dad’s side was given an opportunity to purchase some land down in Florida. But when he examined the land he saw that it was swampy and unusable and a waste of money and he decided not to buy it. A short time later another man looked at that same land, but when he…

Introduction Newton’s first law of motion / The law of motion: An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion with the same speed and direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. Why New Years can be a helpful time. An unbalanced or outside force that gets us to move.…

Bible Reading Week 49 This Week’s Theme: Looking Forward to Peace Word for the Week is Peace: The state of harmony that is available to believers through having a right relationship with God and others and is especially associated with the presence of the Holy Spirit. Memory verse: Ephesians 2:14 (NKJV)…

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…

Introduction E.g. Chasing the jet ski Fell off jet ski & had to keep swimming after it as it ‘snaked’ its way up the river By the time I caught it I was too exhausted and annoyed to keep going so I went back For many people happiness, contentment, satisfaction in life seems like chasing the jet ski It…

Pride comes from Achievement Pride comes from Attention Pride comes from Affluence Pride comes from Abandonment Conclusion

Acts 21:26-36 Last week we started a series on the Truth about Our Mindset. When we talk about our mindset, we are talking about how we literally set our minds…or what we set our minds upon. Last week we saw that we need to take every thought captive, and to bring it under obedience to the Word of God.…

Engage : ‌How Does Christ Build His Church? ‌Last week: Jesus and Me---->. This week: Jesus and WE. Tension : ‌Cause for withdrawl- Disillusion church hurt overwhelmed deconstruction “No place for me...” “I’m not like others” The Royal Priesthood Truth: ‌ 1 Peter 2:4–12 “As you come to him, a living…

When I did youth ministry, we would take kids to Chuck E Cheese. They had a game called Whack-a-mole. In WAM, moles pop up out of holes and you have to hammer them back down. But as soon as you slam one, another pops up. And on and on it goes. The thing about this game and the reason it’s just evil,…

In a poll a few years back, 70% of Americans said they were concerned about the decline in moral values in our society. It’s easy to see that there has been a decline in moral values. The LGBTQ agenda that’s being forced down everyone’s throats… pure crookedness in our political entities, and general…

You’ve probably never heard of the name Sayyid Qutb. But Sayyid Qutb has had a profound effect on your life. On your family, on your job, on your future, on your travel. Even though he died about forty years ago he has had profound influence on you through his worldview. How did he do that? Sayyid Qutb…

The challenge of being in but not of the world. We are called to be different than the world but if we are not careful we become like the world. Yet, we cannot just escape and isolate—the call of God demands something different. Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is…

Actions Speak Louder Than Words Giving To God. John was a very lonely, wealthy old man. He had worked hard all his life and built a great business and made loads of money. But, he was all alone. One Sunday evening as he was talking a walk to clear his head, he was drawn to a church where he heard wonderful,…

13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. towards the latter days deceivers and liers shall become worse and worse. deception shall run rampant. we are who we identify as??? the deception that life is greener on the other side.. the story of the girl that…

The Scales of Justice What does it take to convict a man of guilt? We weigh the actions and motives of a person against the weight of the law. If we want to be able to judge people with dignity and equity we must choose which law we will judge by very carefully. Where do we find such a law? Does it come…

Text: Luke 1:26-38 | WHEN GOD SHAKES THINGS UP ME INTRODUCTION: HOW DO I STRUGGLE WITH THIS? My kids have found a show that they enjoy watching because it is interactive called “You vs Wild” The guy gets into various situations and then you are giving the opportunity to choose what to do next. It’s kind…

The music band Skillet is a Christian Rock band, I used to listen to them a lot during my teen and college days. The lead singer of the band’s name is John Cooper, and he once said “I'm amazed that so many Christians want the benefits of the kingdom of God, but with the caveat that they themselves be…

Subject: Overcoming the Fear of Rejection We’re going to look at the one that’s in your mind that causes you to make yourself crazy, which is fearing the disapproval of other people, fearing the rejection of other people, fearing too much what other people think about your life. When you do that, when…

Introduction Called as Pastor of FBC Bagdad five years ago yesterday. 18 Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law. We must continually place ourselves under the authorities set over us by God, or we will eventually walk out from under authority…