The necessity of the indwelling of the Spirit to a Christian life.

Jesus Christ is the foundation of our Christian life. He is all that we need, he steers our course and keeps us on track.

Just like Jesus cleaned out the Temple our body needs to be properly cleaned as a dwelling place of the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 6:19, Ephesians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, John 15:4-5

With all authority given to us we have a mission to continually make disciples. In all things we look to Christ to se how to handle things including our commission.

Matthew 28:18-20, 1 Peter 3:22, Revelation 1:5, II Peter 1:2-4, Luke 6:40, Acts 22:16, Acts 10:47-48, Acts 2:41-42

Like those with infectious skin diseases under the old law we still avoid touching the spiritually unclean, but not Jesus. Jesus touched those that were unclean both physically and spiritually. He healed them. If we refuse to also touch and heal, through Jesus, those that are spiritually unclean it could lead to the worst sin of all - self-righteousness. God is the God of the untouchables; He will not pass you by. Mark 9, Leviticus 13,

John 6:27: God can meet our needs physically if we need His needs spiritually

Ecclesiastes 1:17, I Timothy 5:8, II Thessalonians 3, Matthew 6:33, Luke 10:38-42, I Peter 1:21-25, John 6:41, John 6:48-51, Isaiah 55:2-3

Sunday morning sermon from 1 John

Love is such a valuable thing to a Christian and a necessary part of our life. Too much love is not a bad thing. Whoever loves God must also love his brother. We need to have a deep desire to love.
John 13:34; 2 2 Peter 1:7; 1.1 John 4:7-8; 1 John 4:20-28; John 9; 1 Peter 4:8; 1 Peter 1:22;

We need to be more prayerful and scriptural and be the church of tomorrow. Romans 10:14-17 II Corinthians 7:9-10, I Timothy 1:13, Romans 2:21-24

Using the feeding of the tens and thousand of people as an example of Christ taking advantage of great opportunites. Matthew 14, Mark 6

As you strive to excel in the Word may we add the characteristic of understanding in our life.

Father's day sermon discussing Biblical role models for Dads

Our greatest motive is to please our master, Eph 5:12-14

Ongoing series studying II Chronicles

Real prayers benefit God and man. Proverbs 15:8, "The LORD detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him."

Sunday evening sermon

Now is the time to get fired up for the Lord.

God wants the whole heart and he gave us the forgiveness for our sins.

II Corinthians 11:9, 1 Peter 5:2, John 2:24-25, Revelation 2:23, Hebrews 4:12-13, John 15:1

The community doesn’t care what you teach, they care who you are. Jesus Christ is the dividing line; everything depends on having faith in God, faith in Jesus Christ. We express our faith through confession, repentance and baptism. These are not steps, but an outpouring of our faith.

Romans 4:16, Romans 3:22; Romans 10; Mark 14:1; Matthew 20

We are never too sinful to come under God’s umbrella of Grace and we are never too sinful for God to use us.

II Peter 3, Genesis 16:4, Psalms 123, Luke 15

We must hunger for the Word of God every day. Presently we have a spiritual famine through material luxury, moral corruption, and religious corruption. We can end our present day famine by appreciating power of God’s Word and feeding on it

Do you have a passion for Christianity? If so, God want us to enlist, improvise, and expect results.

Mark 2:1-12, Luke 19

Sunday evening series

Man’s wisdom can never understand God’s wisdom. Two things Job knew, he knew who he was and he knew who God was. His (and our) conclusion about God is our conclusion about life.

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Continuation of Sunday evening series on Matthew 5

People continue to sin but Christians are justified freely. We approach religion in one of two ways to deal with their sin, the religion of divine accomplishment or religion of human achievement. The religion of grace is that of divine accomplishment.

Romans 5:4, Ephesians 2:8, II Timothy 1:9, Titus 3:5, Galatians 2:16

It’s our understanding about how much God loves us that makes all of the difference in our life.

A timeless message for the on the occasion of the new year.

Matthew 7. God will be as hard on you as you are on others.

Matthew 10:11, Acts 13, Matthew 15:21, Luke 11:5, Luke 18:1

Willard Tate tells us through the full story of Jesus' birth and life leading us to a fuller understanding of his significance for all people.

Isaiah 7:14, Luke 1:67-2:2

Our inner most being, our soul, is the house of God. How can we think that God will be pleased in is house? Christians should self-evaluate to ensure our primary objective in our spiritual walk is to please God.

Christians have no need to worry. God has provided everything we need including salvation from our sins.

No matter how bad you are or have been there is always a second chance with God. God just wants us to give it another try.

John 21:5-14, Luke 5:5-10, John 18:15-18

A message on judging ourselves and forgiving others.

A message on judging ourselves and forgiving others.

Jesus knows what the ordinary person worries about. He lived in poverty most of his life and had the same worries and concerns we do today. It is from deep experience he teaches us about worry. The most important message we can receive from Christ is that our worldly worries distract us from the comfort of the Gospel. The whole message of the Bible teaches us to be concerned for one another. Jesus is the cure for worry. Our life as Christians is the cure for worry. If we love Christ and care for one another as Christ cared for people we will not worry about the inconsequential things in life.

Matthew 6, Luke 12, Isaiah 6, Mark 4, Luke 10

God is still in charge and God’s love is still taking care of the universe. Don’t be afraid, Christ gives a peace that only he can give. For those of us who are troubled, God through Christ gives us a peace like no other the world has to offer. This message is for those that are desperate for peace, who are facing trails, and who don’t see any hope in their lives. This is a message for all of us.

John 14, John 17, Luke 10:37, John 12, Hebrews 13:20, Psalms 23

It’s hard to be grumpy when you have a thankful attitude. If we focus on how richly we are blessed we think more positively. Focus on your blessings!

Luke 17:10, Psalm 100

God loves people and too often we don’t love people enough. Scripture after scripture tells us to love people and have mercy on them. This is the true measure of a Christian, do we get people right? If we get people right then we will get God right. It doesn’t mater how good or talented you are if you do not have love you are nothing.

John 13:34, II John 4-6, Leviticus 19:18, Isaiah, Ezekiel 16:49, Hosea 6:6, Amos 5:21-24, Micah 6:6, Amos 5:21-24, Micah 6:6, Matthew 12:1-2, Matthew 12:3-8, Mathew 25, Luke 6:27-38, Luke 10:25-37, John 15:11-17, John 21:15, Romans 13:8, Colossians 3:12, Galatians 6:12, Hebrews 6:9-10, James 2:8, I Peter 3, 1 John 4:7-12, Acts 10:38, Isaiah 28:16-17, Jeremiah 7:2-8, 1 Corinthians 13

God loves you, even if you are divorced. God hates divorce but loves the people. Christians should address divorce in a loving and merciful way in the example of Jesus Christ instead of by the strict law in the example of the Pharisees. There is comfort in the saving gospel of Jesus Christ to all people, divorced or not.

1 Corinthians 7, Matthew 19, Luke 16:18, Mark 10, Luke 12:26, Matthew 5:12, Mark 6:6, Matthew 5:29, 1 Samuel, Matthew 12, 2 Chronicles 30, Matthew 12:30, Romans 13:4

A powerful message to teens and adults.

Christians are the lower lights

There are core beliefs to Christian faith, all other things are matters of opinion.

 Teen Series

Teen Series

Forgiving is one of the hardest things for a human to do but don’t be afraid to forgive. We are afraid to forgive because we look at forgiveness in an irrational ways such as if we forgive we will make the sin not serious, we won’t forgive unless the other person asks, places too much responsibility on us, or it just doesn’t sound fair.

Matthew 18, Romans 3:21, II Timothy 2:1,

Once we decide that we are responsible for our actions we look at life differently. To be responsible we are going to have to stop blaming, understand that we are always choosing, and know that choosing is your greatest power.

Matthew 7:13, Genesis 4, Joshua 24:

Decide now to clothe yourself with kindness by finding a need and filling it and finding a hurt and heal it. We are kind when we are sensitive, encouraging, sympathetic, and spontaneous.

Ephesians 4:31-32, Colossians 3:12, Romans 11, Ephesians 2:1-10, Titus 3:4, Mark 14:3-9, Proverbs 15:4, Romans 12:15

God’s heart and a mother’s heart are real close. A mother wants her children to be close to God which is graphically displayed in the love Mary had for Jesus and the love Jesus showed his mother.

As Humans we tend to use people and value things, resist difficult circumstances, resist change, and tend to be unforgiving. Forgiveness gives us the power to heal but you can’t give away what you haven’t received, if you haven’t forgiven yourself, you can’t forgive others.

Matthew 6:14, Romans 9

It takes courage to be a person of character and if you have character you about have it all. In order to feel good you have to do good. This is the foundation of life Jesus taught when he told the story of the man who built his house upon the rock as opposed to the man who built his house on the sand.

Matthew 7, Genesis 18, Jeremiah 5, Ephesians 4, John 9:44

There’s a land that is fairer than day, and by faith we can see it a-far; for the Father waits over the way, to prepare us a dwelling place there. Because Jesus was crucified for our sins and he was raised from death, Christians know we have the promise of eternal life with Him.

Psalms 89, Psalms 90:10, Ecclesiastes 10:1, Romans 5:12, James 4:14, 1 Peter 1:3-9, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Thessalonians 4:13, Mark 16:1-7, John 11:1-44

We are all sinners and all children of God. Too often people think that they are not good enough for God, that the sins in their life are too bad for God to love them. Others thing they are so good that there is no need for God to love them. We need to reach out to all of God's children. The church is a factory for producing saints; not a warehouse for storing them.
I John 3:18, Romans 3:23, Romans 5:8, Romans 8:14, I John 3:18 Matthew 25:31-36

In the world being chosen means someone has to lose and losing brings pain and envy. God has chosen us but in a way that there is no elimination, no loser, no envy. Because we are chosen we should look through the eyes of gratitiude and live as one that is chosen. We should be a blessing not a burden. John 3:22-30, Colossians 3:12-17

In today’s instant world we often get what we want in a matter of seconds. This “got to have it now” mentality extends to our relationship with God. One of God’s characteristics, however, is that he works so slowly. Forty years for Him is nothing, but to us it is so significant. When you find yourself in the desert stay with God and don’t give up on Him. When we find we get to place where God is all we’ve got well find God is all we need.

Exodus 2:23, Exodus 13:17, Hebrews 10:19-22, Psalms 135

The marketing world keeps telling us through commercials we ought to be discontent and we are only one step away from contentment. They may be right, God designed us to have dissatisfaction but there can be no satisfaction except that God loves us. Romans 8, Matthew 6, Exodus 16, Titus 3, Numbers 11, I Corinthians 10, Isaiah 55, I John 4:15-16

Like those with infectious skin diseases under the old law we still avoid touching the spiritually unclean, but not Jesus. Jesus touched those that were unclean both physically and spiritually. He healed them. If we refuse to also touch and heal, through Jesus, those that are spiritually unclean it could lead to the worst sin of all - self-righteousness. God is the God of the untouchables; He will not pass you by. Mark 9, Leviticus 13,

Like well used rag dolls we are all ragged and flawed by our environment and choices, but God loves us ragged and flawed. Christ reconstructs us through the cross and we are loved enough to be made like brand new. 1. Love is for that which it loves; 2. Love delights in the one being loved; 3. Love gives to the one that’s loved. Romans 5, Isaiah 64:9, Matthew 22:4, Luke 7:34