FROM BITTERNESS TO BLESSING! Exodus 15:22-27 INTRODUCTION: When things seem to be going bad in your life that does not mean God has stopped doing good. In all of our lives our circumstances fall into two types: Those things in our control and those things out of our control: Proverbs 19:21. Our God has a […]
FAITH AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE SPIRIT! Galatians 5:16-26 INTRODUCTION: As we inspect the fruit of the Spirit in our lives we may find some of those facets are mature and strong while other of the facets of the fruit of the Spirit were immature and weak! These nine facets of the Spirit describe the […]
A CHURCH FULL OF JOY! Philippians 1:1-6 INTRODUCTION: The local church in Philippi in in northern Greece that was truly a place of joy almost two thousand years ago. The Apostle Paul visited there about 50 A.D. and founded the first church in Europe there. Ten years later Paul wrote a letter to that local […]
JESUS’ ATTITUDE TOWARD HIS BIBLE! Matthew 5:17-18 INTRODUCTION: What was our Lord’s attitude toward the Bible? Did Jesus use the Bible? Did our Lord know God’s Word? Did Jesus ever quote the Word of God? Most of us in this church have settled the question in the affirmative that we believe the Bible is God’s […]
PLODDING FOR GOD! 1 Corinthians 4:1-7 INTRODUCTION: Often the most influential people in our lives are not people of great or unusual abilities. They are the people who continued to plod along in our lives and do exactly what the Lord intended for them to do in our lives. It doesn’t matter whether being a […]
WHY WE BELIEVE THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD 2 Timothy 3:10-17 INTRODUCTION: Much of what I am preaching today is based on the foundation of a message preached by Dr. R. A Torrey in 1898. Everything we believe about our faith is based on the Bible being the Word of the Living God. […]
WHY DOES GOD ALLOW SUFFERING AND EVIL IN THIS WORLD? Job 2:7-10 INTRODUCTION: Why would a God Who is love allow suffering and evil in His world? We experience evil, pain and suffering in this present world almost every day. We live in a world of wars, murders, rapes, robberies, hatred and suffering and our […]
REJOICING IN OUR FREEDOM! Psalm 33:1-22 INTRODUCTION: On July 4th we celebrated “Independence Day.” That is the day that fifty-six of the bravest men that ever lived signed “The Declaration of Independence.” It was signed on July 4, 1776. That document led to the “United States Constitution” in 1787. The Constitution was a document written […]
WHY IS JESUS THE ONLY WAY? John 14:1-6 INTRODUCTION: How can Jesus be the only way to God? Why do we believe that Jesus is the only way to eternal life? You do know that not everyone believes what we say we believe don’t you? We as followers of Jesus Christ have been called to […]
MY “DO OVER!” Romans 3:21-28 INTRODUCTION: When you go to a cemetery and check out a tomb stone, what do you normally look at first? Usually I look at the date of birth and the date of death. That little dash in between those two dates is the number of years that person lived. We […]