Sermons on Discipleship
Trust God: Part I
Trust God – May 14, 2023 Picture of Trust God Picture of Jacob Picture of Trust God “People are quietly downgrading their belief in miracles because they have experienced deep disappointment” Peter Greig Trust God Psalm 4:5 trust in the Lord Faith is inseparable from trust Without trust, faith is inadequate and shockingly indistinguishable from the faith of demons who believe and shudder before God. – Michael Houdman James 2:19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the…
This Book Can Change Your Life: Problems
This Book Will Change Your Life: ProblemsApril 2, 2023 1 Thessalonians 2:13 And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe. Miraculously Accurate Prophecies 325 Biblical Prophecies – nothing comes even close!!! Hundreds of Years between prophecy and fulfillment Daniel 9:25 Year Jesus was…
This Book Can Change Your Life: Interpretation
This Book will change your life – interpretation – March 26 Comforted Psalm 42:11 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. Convicted Taught Eph. 1:17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. A daily possibility that Almighty God may…
This Book Can Change Your Life: Posture
This Book Can Change Your Life March 19, 2023 “This will change your life!” This book has changed my life Experience God through the Bible Why is the Bible so important? I don’t believe Jesus because of the Bible, I believe the Bible because of Jesus Jesus is God Jesus taught from the OT as a supernatural book Luke 4:16-21 When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the…
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…
Christmas Eve: God With Us
Christmas Eve We need traditions Traditions ground us, tell us we are safe for a moment, settle our hearts Only constant is change John 1:14 And the Word (God) became flesh, and dwelt (tabernacled) among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. God tented amongst us – Grace Truth Isaiah 7: 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give youa sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will…
Dark Before Dawn: Deconstructing Doubt [John]
The Dark before the Dawn There must be a God Doubt is not the end of faith Sarah kept walking in the dark Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. We hold each other’s hands in the dark Jude 22 Be merciful to those who doubt John the Baptist Matt. 3:11-12 “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more…
Faith
Faith “Lack of faith” was the only thing that Jesus ever reproved his disciples for Faith was key for Jesus’ ministry of healing, miracles, forgiveness of sin 2 Cor. 5:7 For we live by faith and not by sight Heb. 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God If we don’t understand what faith is, we don’t understand our Faith Heb. 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. How can we…
Prayer Quest: Speak to Me
Prayer quest: Speak Lord, I’m listening June 27, 2021 Make me bold Change my heart Search my heart Send me John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. Ps. 42:1-2 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? 1 Samuel 3:8-11 Then Eli realized that the Lord was…
Prayer Quest: Send Me
Prayer Quest: Send me June 20, 2021 Change my heart Make me bold Search my heart God help me. God help someone else. Isaiah 6:1-4 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is…