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Connect the dots ( Insert Connect-four picture here) Have you ever played the game connect four? Well our section is like that. It is connecting the dots between chapters 1:18 and 5:6-8:39. Connect the dots, connecting one thought to another. One passage to another. This section we are starting in this…

Last week we started in chapter 4 of the book of Romans - and the issue of salvation by grace with the implications of faith in that conversation. From a human perspective - salvation by grace doesn’t make any sense. Salvation sounds like something that we earn. In fact, that is taught in many faith…

No Failure in God Failure Is Impossible. Nehemiah 6 :16 When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God. Nehemiah chapter 6, is all about threats and deception coming…

1 John 5.10-13 Essentially there are five categories of people in our world today: Those who are unsaved and know they are. They have no security regarding their eternal future. Those who are unsaved but think they are saved. They have a false security about eternity. Those who are saved but are uncertain…

Introduce Self... Pray... Kids... Can you imagine what it would be like if your legs didn’t work? In this story, there is a man whose legs don’t work. He’s an adult man and it’s been this way since he was born. Paul comes to this man fixes his legs! When we’re born, we’re spiritually broken. We don’t…

Romans 8:1-4 We are now in the eighth chapter of Romans. As we have gone verse by verse throughout this book we have seen Paul remind us that in our natural state we are sinners that were under the wrath of God. He told us we cannot save ourselves through any goodness of our own. He told us the truth…

“Endurance Part #2” Last week we took some time to address the fact that this Christian race that we call life is not always easy. There are many days where we as believers can grow weary and tired. There are many believers who get sidetracked and weighed down by the sinful darts thrown their way by…

We've spoken over the quarter about God's promises… his promises of blessing when we give, about God's promise of heaven, about God's promise of the Holy Spirit, and God's promises for the future, and for guidance, and for energy, and for freedom from fear, and God's promise of abundant life. If you…

Where has our peace gone? Jesus brings - Peace with God (vs. 1-2) Jesus brings - Peace in Suffering (vs. 3-5) Jesus brings -Assurance for Peace (vs. 6-8) Big Idea: Only in the Prince of Shalom will we be made whole.

Titus 3:4–11 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;…

23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. 6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication…

Introduction “That’s like putting lipstick on a pig.” Maybe you’ve heard that adage. It’s pretty clear what it means, right? You can try to dress somethings up, but it doesn’t change what they really are. External changes are only that - external. There’s no real change happening. When that lipstick…

THE GIFT OF GOD They all live together in one of those small farming towns that you need to live in to understand what it's like in those towns. It's not just that you know who everybody is, you know what they do and what they're like. You eat at the same places and go to the same spots for fun. If you…

Hope Four Candles. Hope, Peace, Love and Joy. This Sunday the Candle is the Candle of Hope. In the light of the scriptures we read today - let us reflect on what this ‘Hope’ means. Isaiah 2:1-5 Psalm 122 Romans 13:11-14 Matthew 24:36-44 What is the opposite of hope? If I try to think of the opposite…

The people of Israel had forgotten their hope. Judea and Galilee were under direct control of the Roman Empire. The region where Jesus presumably spent his whole life, was overseen by a puppet kings of Rome, one of the sons of Herod the Great. Eventually, this puppet king Archelaus would be supplanted…

1 Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they…

1 So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! 3 Why has the…

“God will forgive; that is his ‘business.’” —Voltaire “I like committing crimes. God likes forgiving them. Really the world is admirably arranged.” —W.H. Auden “Christians are by no means immune from the temptation to slip from a celebration of grace to an abuse of grace.” —Douglas Moo Refutation: I…

This is my third week preaching on the issue of Faith, working through the book of Romans. Starting in Chapter 4 Paul describes the inner workings of our salvation - mainly that our salvation is dependent on the Grace of God sending his son to die on the cross AND our response to that needing to be one…

Anyone can win a soul to Christ. If you have a testimony of salvation and God has changed you and remade you anew, you have something already that you can share with others. But anyone can do it. But we want to grow beyond only our testimony. We want to study and know the verses that talk about salvation…

1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because…

Faith In The Fire or Joy In The Traffic Jam All of the scripture this morning is predicated upon the righteousness of one man, Abraham- that righteousness was given to him because of his faith.... the previous chapters are summed up in the passage, “Abraham believed God and righteousness was imputed…

Introduction: People today need hope. Some say we live in a “hopeless” society. There are few people with positive expectations. After all, we are told to expect the worst! Some friends in California are filling up their pick-up trucks and spending $175 to do so, and gas prices are not much better here.…

Announcements Are there any announcements? We are currently searching for someone to take on the responsibility of producing a bulletin each week. Church on the Lawn will be rescheduled Worship team meeting coming soon to a theatre near you! Communion Good morning and welcome to FCC! Here at FCC, we…

I want to do an experiment. Brook, would you play a song on your guitar? As you play your song, I am going to play another song. And then, Roxie, could you sing a third? Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see. What did…