“The Temptation within” Today as we continue our study of James. We will continue to connect the dots that James lays out for legit Christian living. We began this series with the pressure test. If you will remember we looked at trials and troubles as pressure in our lives. And we saw how God uses…
Last week, in our continuation of the series on the Church, we began to look at the make-up of a church…how a church is to be structured and how it is to fulfill its mission and calling within that structure. We read, in Eph 4:11ff, that God had raised up and anointed certain men as…
The Sermon for today is from James 1:1-11 “Our Enduring Faith” Friends, as we have finished the book of Luke, we are now going to begin in James…And this particular sermon is about what it takes to grow and show our faith…it’s about the endurance of our faith as we are tested, and how that…
Last week we looked at the mission of the Church and found that it was relatively simple in concept but complex in implementation. Our calling…our mission…is fundamentally twofold; to be holy as God is holy and to live and act in such a way as to bring Him glory. We saw last week that our…
Welcome back to our ongoing study about the Church. To this point, we have talked about the Master of the Church, the Majesty of the Church, the Mystery of the Church, and the Metaphors of the Church. This week, we will be looking at the Mission…the calling…of the Church. A good place to start our…
My Friends, today’s sermon is from Luke 24:1-27… “The Resurrection” The resurrection of Christ is the central event of the Christian faith…And according to early records, the death of our Lord Jesus took place on Friday, the 15th day of the month of Nisan, which is the first month of the Israelite calendar between March…
Welcome back to our continued study on the nature of the church. This evening we will be finishing our study on the Metaphors of the Church…the pictures of the Church that we find in God’s Word. Over the last several weeks we have looked at the metaphor of the Church as a body with Christ…
Today’s sermon is entitled simply, “The Cross!” Before Jesus the cross was despised, a symbol of the worse kind of cruelty and horrific barbarity imaginable. Its sole purpose was to execute offenders in the most hideous and protracted means, producing the greatest amount of pain and agony over an extended time. Many a criminal hung…
Welcome again to our continued study on the Church and, over the last few weeks, the Metaphors of the Church. Over the past two weeks, we have had the pleasure and privilege of looking at one of my favorite passages of scripture…Psalm 23. We were able to trace the tremendous care and love the Great…
Now, today’s Sermon is from Luke 23:1-25. We start out this sermon, following Our Lord’s nighttime arrest at the Garden of Gethsemane…and during His hearing before Caiaphas, the high priest used specific Jewish legal language to necessitate a legal answer from Jesus…As Matthew puts it this way in 26:63…”But Jesus kept silent. And the…