Sermon Archive (Page 2)

Sermon Archive (Page 2)

Chosen to Serve

Acts 6:1-7 Every Church Fails Somehow Widows being neglected Proverbs 24:16 Don’t Lose Focus Psalm 27:4 Elders Servants Every Person Has a Part to Play 1st Corinthians 12:14-18 The Marks of a Quality Servant Humble Wise Good Reputation Spirit Filled Jesus Started It  

Why Christmas?

Genesis 3:1-15 People Adam Abraham Moses David The Prophets Things Sacrifices Tremper Longman  “Sacrifice was the way that the Old Testament saints recognized and atoned for their sin as they came before the Lord.” Leviticus 11:29 Hebrews 10:4,11 Jesus is Better John 8:58 John the Baptist “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” “I must decrease: He must increase.” Tim Keller “Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all…

The Enemies of God

The Enemies of God Acts 5:12-42 The Kingdom of God is about God helping people. It is about God saving people, God healing people, God restoring people to Himself. It says that sick people get healed. We believe that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He has healed, he will heal, and he is healing. We believe that in the kingdom of God, no one will be sick. We believe that sickness has entered the world because of…

God Is In Control

Acts 4:23-31 The Roman Empire was the biggest, most prominent, powerful, prosperous nation in the history of the world. The citizens lived relatively lavish lifestyles. They had multiple religions, multiple spiritualities, multiple gods, multiple goddesses. Their values included tolerance and diversity. They had widespread sexual sin. Homosexuality was very popular. Bisexuality was very popular. Adultery within marriage was common. They also had child sacrifice where if they didn’t like the baby, they would kill it. Sound Familiar? Yeah they are…

No Other Name

Acts 4:1-22 Introduction Our country was founded on the principle that people of all religious creeds and backgrounds are welcome.  All religions are equally tolerated under the law.  But somewhere along the way, we seem to have adopted the belief that all religions should not only be tolerated, but also that they are all equally valid.  That there are many roads to heaven, and it doesn’t really matter which one you take as long as you are sincere. And One…

Repent or Reject?

Acts 3:11-26 Acts chapter 3 breaks neatly into 2 parts.  The Miracle (last week) – Peter and John heal a cripple.  and the Message (This week) Peter uses the opportunity to preach the gospel.  Same thing He did at Pentecost.  The text tells us that this guy was crippled from birth.  Think of his childhood. (watching others climb trees, build forts, play ball) He had none of that.  He was crippled from birth.  This wasn’t America where some people could…

In Jesus Name

Acts 3:1-10 We’re going to pick up where Pastor Brandon left off last week. He highlighted last week the New Testament church devotion was: 1. Devoted to the apostles teaching 2. Devoted to the fellowship 3. Devoted to prayer This week were going to see how this devotion leads to belief in Christ through physical healing. Summary – Peter and John – temple for prayer, lame man healed, praise and wonderment Today we’ll see Peter and John enter the temple…

The Devoted Church

The Princess Bride: Adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, sword fighting, revenge, and true love. Our text this morning is a lot like that… It has so many wonderful truths contained within its few verses.  Within 7 verses we find: Salvation, Baptism, Revival, Corporate Worship, Preaching, Fellowship, Potlucks, Prayer, Miracles, Sacrifice, Finances, Generosity, Worship, Evangelism, Small Groups, Gratitude.  This is like the princess bride of Passages.   I am really excited for it, but as you can imagine, we don’t have a…

The Last Days

Introduction Try to imagine that you were a bystander, an eyewitness, to the events that transpired in Jerusalem when God opened the heavens and poured out the Spirit on His church.  Where God, through the Holy Spirit, enabled the Apostles to speak in languages in which they were unskilled, so that people from all over the world could hear their proclamation in their native tongue. Acts 2:14-41 Context/Story first recorded sermon from one of the disciples.  Never before have they…

The Long Awaited Spirit

This morning we are going to look at one of the 3 most important moments in the history of the world.   Creation. John Calvin – “God created the world to function as a  theater of His glory in the drama of redemption.” Death and Resurrection of Christ – Implications throughout all of human history. Both before AND after the event. Pentecost – Pentecost was that moment in redemptive history when God unlocked the power of the Holy Spirit and gave…