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Importance Romans is the most complete explanation of the Gospel. In the Old Testament we have the foundations for the Gospel. In the Gospels we have the life of Christ, culminating in the death and resurrection which are the basis for good news. Acts tells of the spread of the gospel. Romans explains…

Deuteronomy 16:8-21:9 REVIEW This is our fifth message from Devarim- Deuteronomy elle-ha deverim = these are the words Picture of Journey An 11 day journey that lasted 40 years Reason why the journeys are moments and opportunities to learn The first generation that came out of Egypt was “thick headed”…

Treat weakness as tenderly and patiently as God does, and quietly follow your Holy Spirit guided conscience in regards to disputable matters.

Today we are going to be talking about something that we have talked a little bit about before. Background Written by the apostle Paul, this amazing book teaches us about God, about Humanity, and about Salvation (the Roman road). It was written around AD 57 to the church in Rome. Paul had not preached…

Do we show Love to EVERYONE ? Look at Romans 12:9 9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. And now… Romans 12:21 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Paul uses the same word for “Good” in each of these verses… He begins and ends this passage with “agathos”…

Hebrews 2:1-3 Hebrews 6:4-6 Hebrews 10:26-31 Five times in the book of Hebrews, the writer warns his readers about the dangers of abandoning the Christian faith. Three of these passages are often used by those who want to prove that you can lose your salvation. We can’t possibly study in depth the book…

? ! . In English, there are 16 punctuation marks — the period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, semicolon, colon, em dash, en dash, hyphen, parentheses, brackets, braces, apostrophe, double quotation marks, single quotation marks, and ellipsis — and they’re not as scary as they sound. . The .…

Last week, Stephen covered “Experiencing God Though Obedience”. What is it God requires of us? Simple obedience. Our obedience reveals the relationship we have with God. But James goes on to say that our obedient faith to God without actions…is dead. Faith will bring about works. Faith is not a spectator…

For . . . The last few classes we have looked at “For heaven’s sake” the What and the who, last week we started into the “why.” Today we will continue with that. The who: was everyone The what: was the government The first part of why: they were the authority as given by God This morning I want to pick…

An Appeal to Obedience and Humility (2:12-13) Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things…

Christ Changes Our View of the World Becoming what we are designed to be, when we really connect to the idea of a new life in Christ, changes us in more ways than we can imagine. When we sacrifice ourselves to God, the Holy Spirit begins a work in us, to make us holy and acceptable. As our minds are…

Disputes Would you say that people, even Christians can dispute over even the smallest things? If we are honest do we want people to think the way we think and act the way we think they should act? If people don’t do that, what do we do? Or do sometimes? Insert Brothers in Christ Picture here The reality…

Hebrews 12:25-29 Talking about living on the edge, about taking chances we know we shouldn’t, of ignoring God’s boundaries and violating God’s best will for our lives. Our whole nation is living on the fault line of God's Judgment! So let me ask you a thought provoking question …. ARE YOU AND I LIVING…

As we have gone through the book of Romans verse by verse, Paul has taken on this great journey focusing mostly on the Righteousness of God, and our relationship to that righteousness. After a brief introduction in chapter one, He began to expound on the Sin problem that all of humanity has. But not…

Romans 15:1-13 We have been looking at the Christian’s relationships as we have studied the last few chapters. We talked about the Believers relationship to God in 12.1-2 Believers Relationship with Himself 12:3-8 Believers Relationship with Other Believers 12:9-13 Believers Relationship with Unbelievers…

Have you ever had to give up something so that someone else could have something? In other words have you ever had to make sacrifices? Parents often work several jobs in order for their children to have something good or better. Sometimes friends give of themselves or make sacrifices in order for their…

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…

Recap of last week, Romans 14:1-12 Passing judgment on others who are weaker in their faith. Eat - vegetarian vs omnivore Drink - water, juice, wine Cannot judge someone else’s servant - we are not to judge others as they are God’s servant. Watchful over how we treat others who observe one day vs all…

ONE ANOTHER Today’s one another focus on living in harmony with one another or a shorter version is unity. Chapter 14 and the 1st ½ of 15 are one extended discussion about how to get along with people in the church who disagree with you on something you feel passionate about. UNITY IS MORE IMPORTANT…

1 As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. 2 One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. 3 Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for…

1. Death is a state of {separation} . 2. Both believers and non-believers will be {raised} from the dead. 3. Believers Rewarded A. Immediate Reward a. This judgment will occur in heaven immediately {after} the rapture of the Church. 4 For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this…

Good morning church It is good to be together today, gathered as the body of Christ. This Friday we will gather to celebrate the birth of our King! This morning, we are going to take a look at the story of his birth, and a group of people that it affected greatly and see what lessons there might be for…

CHRISTMAS BALANCE Romans 14:5-19 I like to remind everyone this time of the year that it is important that we are consistent as believers. Whatever we do we need to continue be the believers that are balanced. One of the times of the year we struggle is Christmas time. We often get out of sorts because…

We are continuing Values to Live by and we are going to look at another endangered value today… respect. We live in an extremely rude culture and it’s getting worse every day. It seems to me that respect for other people and their property is at an all time low. Look what happened with all the riots…

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