Sermons on Biblical Studies
Shaping Me: Habits (Part II)
Shaping Me – Habits (Part II) January 29, 2023 Left unattended, your future self may be someone you wouldn’t even recognize. We are all being shaped every single day in some direction What would this year be like to be intentionally shaped by our loving Creator? Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.…
Shaping Me: Habits (Part I)
Shaping Me: Habits We are all being shaped every single day What would this year be like to be intentionally shaped by our loving Creator? We are shaped by the internal stories we believe Romans 8:6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, Interrupt Anxiety with Prayer Spirit of God, what would you have me think? Little t truth – what is true for me Big T truth…
Shaping Me: External Stories
Shaping Me – External Stories Jan. 15, 2023 We are all being shaped by something every single day What would this year be like to be intentionally shaped by our loving Creator? We are shaped by the stories we believe – internal stories Romans 8:6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, Spirit of God, what would you have me think? Interrupt Anxiety with Prayer Truth corresponds to…
Shaping Me: Internal Stories
Shaping Me – Internal Stories We are all being shaped by something every single day You are being formed every moment of every day! By simply waking up every morning you are being shaped. (John Mark Comer) We are all being shaped by something every single day Intentionality/Trust Being shaped by Jesus is not passive but a partnership Matt. 7:24-27 Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid…
Angels
Christmas Angels Is there is something beyond our senses? Signposts that point to the fact that there is a spiritual world Christians believe in a spiritual world Angels What do angels do? “Angel” means “Messenger” Angels deliver messages of greatest importance Angels observe/report on how we treat strangers Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. Angels fight spiritual battles Dan. 10:4-6 On April 23, as…
Forever: Live in Hope
Forever Positive Prospective Mental Imagery Hope Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now Dwight L. Moody In heaven we will see much more clearly, but continue to learn 1 Cor. 13:9-12 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a…
Forever: Meaningful & Creative Work
Forever We won’t become angels You will be welcomed into eternal dwellings Festival of Friends! Will we be bored? Rev. 19:6-8 Then I heard again what sounded like the shout of a vast crowd or the roar of mighty ocean waves or the crash of loud thunder: “Praise the Lord! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns. Let us be glad and rejoice, and let us give honor to him. For the time has come for the wedding feast of the…
Forever: Festival of Friends
Forever (in light of eternity) Nov. 20, 22 1 Corinthians 15:13-14 For if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your faith is useless. Those in Christ will have real bodies Forever Phil. 3:21 He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like his own 1 John 3:2 Dear friends, we are already God’s children,…
Portraits of Jesus: Just Mercy
Mercy is one of those things in life that we often don’t want others to have but we desperately need for ourselves. Today we are going to be talking about mercy. Mercy is not one of my strong suits and so if today you feel like I’m calling you out, I’m not I’m just calling myself out. John 8:1-11 is the story of the woman caught in adultery. If you notice in your Bibles most will have a note saying…
Portraits of Jesus: Living Water
Portraits of Jesus Love Jesus/ Love Bible Chapter One – Jesus is God Chapter Two – Water into wine Chapter Three – Nicodemus being Born Again “Let no one eat the bread of the Samaritans, for he who eats their bread is as he who eats swine’s flesh.” Rabis John 4:7-8 Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.” He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone…