This Sunday, we take a break from our series in the gospel of John and focus on the cross and celebrating the Lord’s supper. Our text for this communion service is Matthew 27:27-56 and Isaiah 53:1-12. Here in these passages, we want to get a true picture of Christ on the cross. There are many paintings, pictures…
This Sunday we continue our series in the gospel of John, and will finish chapter 5, looking at verses 30-47. In this passage Jesus continues His explanation and teaching after a defiant response to His healing of a paralyzed man that He heals on the Sabbath. Now He further proves His claims as the Messiah. He alludes…
This Sunday we continue our series in the gospel of John, and continue to look at chapter 5, verses 25-29. In this passage Jesus continues His explanation and teaching after a defiant response to His healing of a paralyzed man that He heals on the Sabbath. The Jews (Pharisees) complain that the man can’t carry his bed…
This Sunday we continue our series in the gospel of John, and continuing our study of chapter 5, looking at verses 17-24. In this passage Jesus has selected one random paralyzed man to heal and heals him on the Sabbath. The Jews (Pharisees) complain that the man can’t carry his bed on the Sabbath. Again, as we…
This Sunday we are back in our series in the gospel of John, and are now at chapter 5, looking at verses 1-16. In this passage Jesus is back in Jerusalem near the sheepgate at the pool of Bethesda. Here many crowds of people are gathered including many sick, blind, lame and paralyzed; hoping to be healed…
This Sunday, the Lord laid on my heart to do a different message before we return to our series in the gospel of John. Our text is 1 Kings 12:1-20. In this text of scripture, we have a sad story where people fail to obey the Lord, but where God shows them, and us that…
This Sunday, we continue a brief series we began 2 weeks ago on the local church. This time we look at what a church does. I want to spend a little time talking about how the church is described in scripture. Starting in 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 we look at several metaphors used in scripture to…
This Sunday, we continue a series we began last week on the local church. This time we look to the example of the early church. In a lot of ways, the church is really exactly the same as it was in the first century. Sunday morning, we will look at Acts 2:37-47 and other passages…
This Sunday, we take a break from our series in the gospel of John and focus on a series about the local church. What is the local church? In a lot of places today there is a misunderstanding of the church, and what it is all about. A shallow view of the church in recent times has…