Last week we spent our time together looking at, as part of the make-up of a church, the structure and character of its leadership. We saw that leadership of the church has been entrusted by God to godly men, called by His Spirit to the unique and difficult task of shepherding God’s flock, the church.…
“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…
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…
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…
Well, hello again to everyone. Welcome back as we continue in our study of the Church and, most recently, the Metaphors of the Church. A couple weeks ago we looked at the metaphor of the Church as the Body of Christ and Jesus as its Head. Then last week, we started our examination of the…
The sermon for today is from Luke22:31-46…This segment of scriptures comes on the heels of our Lord’s Supper…and the loud debate that had ensued between His disciples as to who was the greatest…Now, Simon, also called Peter, who had grown up on the western side of the Sea of Galilee…was perhaps one of the loudest…
Good evening. Welcome back to our time of study for this week. We are continuing on in our study of the nature and practice of the Church. Up to this point, we have looked at the Majesty of the Church, the Master of the Church, and the Mystery of the Church. You may have detected…
Jesus ate the Passover meal with His disciples, but immediately after that, His disciples argued over which of them is the greatest. Jesus stops them and lets them know who will truly be the greatest in the kingdom. He also tells them of the reward they will get for their faithfulness to Him.(v.14)When the hour…
