When one pastor leaves and another one comes, we learn again that God’s work depends on God, not on God’s messengers. Build your life on God’s Word, not on the man who delivers it.
Text: I Thessalonians 2:1This is a sermon about a topic we rarely discuss in church. This is a sermon about doubt. As such, […]
Text: Mark 9:24If this be the day before the end of the world, let it be a day in which we say, “Not less for Jesus, but more.”
Text: 1 Peter 4:7-11“Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in […]
Text: 1 Peter 4:1-6Throughout history, God has grown and moved his church as his people scattered to diverse locations geographically. This pattern has not changed and believers are still called to grow and expand as a church today, whether we move across national boundaries, ethnic and cultural boundaries, or do church planting in our immediate communities. Beginning with the first generation of believers in the book of Acts, we hear of Phillip, who was emboldened and changed by the power of God as he moved out in obedience to spread the Gospel. Despite severe persecution, great joy descended on those who received the truth that came with power. In this present age, we have the account of the phenomenal growth of the church in China. In 1949 all Christian missionaries were evicted leaving less than one million indigenous believers behind. They faced relentless bloodbaths and eradication. Yet the church grew in the midst of that persecution when determined believers scattered and went underground. The challenge to believers today remains the same—to be willing to be moved out of our personal comfort zones, to walk in faith, to make personal sacrifices, and most importantly, to trust God for our personal well-being and needs.
Text: Acts 8:4-8Since this is the first sermon in the God Speaks Today series, I thought we should answer a few key […]
Text: Genesis 2:18-25; Hebrews 13:4Sooner or later, we all have to commit ourselves regarding the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Being a Christian means going “all in” that Jesus really did rise from the dead.
Text: I Corinthians 15:17-19Jesus sometimes puts us in the fire in order to purify us until He can see His image in us. Remember that He prunes so that we can grow because He is much more interested in our character than He is in our comfort. He takes His launderer’s soap and cleans us so that we’re forgiven. Isaiah 1:18: “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”
Text: Malachi 2:17-3:5“Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors” (Matthew 6:12 KJV). The fifth petition of the Lord’s Prayer seems […]
Text: Matthew 6:12Let God define your life, not earthly circumstances.
Text: I Corinthians 7:17-35