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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…

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.…

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…

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

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

1. God’s Word Must Remain the Guiding Priority in All Things 
2. People left to Themselves Will Always Experience Chaos 
3. God Blesses those who Keep His Word

Good morning, Gateway! Psalm 34:1-6 Pray Intro I remember a car ride home with my mom from church when I was about 12 and I was a real know-it-all. Our church just got a new youth pastor, and my mom was asking me about the service. “How’d it go? What’d you think of the new guy?” “He seems nice, but I…

Signs Of An Idiot Attention Getter: Why the need for Guru’s Jordan Peterson - Male Responsibility; Dave Ramsey - Financial Responsibility; The Entire self -help section. Introduce Topic: People are looking for practical answers to real questions and problems. Scripture: Background: Challenge Audience:…

We are now in 2022. Good bye 2021. I know many are glad to see 2021 go bye bye. New years is a great time to look back and to look ahead. How do we evaluate last year and step into what God wants us to do this next year? Reminder… January 9-29 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting Fasting resources… River Church…

Intro What are your values? the core values that you use to make decisions? Your values are your core beliefs that shape everything you do in life. Some would say beliefs don’t matter, but they do. Belief Behavior Connection It does matter what you believe… it matters a lot. Your beliefs determine your…

I. Value Advisors A. They Make War Easier 18 Prepare plans by consultation, And make war by wise guidance. 5 A wise man is strong, And a man of knowledge increases power. 6 For by wise guidance you will wage war, And in abundance of counselors there is victory. Since our battle is not against flesh and…

5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. 8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. 14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.…

Intro John Maxwell Running with the Giants… Learning from the Giants… Wisdom from the Women of the Bible... We can learn a lot from the Heroes of the faith. You can read about a lot of these in Hebrews 11 . After writing about all of these heroes of the faith, in chapter 12, he says… 1 Therefore, since…

Everything we do in life is connected to our vision. Vision defines our purpose. It is the connection to our destiny. The Vision of the Church is to serve our community and touch our world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Value of Vision Read: Habakkuk 2 :2-3 2 And the Lord answered me: “Write the…

Happy Father’s Day The relationships we have are important Achor Relationships connects us to our Culture ++Fathers ++Mothers Sibling relationships connect us to our History ++Sister ++Brother Support relationships connect us us to our character ++Friends ++Foes Relationships reveal ++Identity ++Heratage…