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Meet Your Father, the Vinedresser
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Triumphant Living
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Jesus is the Lamb of God
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Jesus in All the Gospels
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Like the Woman at the Well
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Snakes, Sinners and the Savior
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What a Wonderful Change
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Do You Believe and Have This Life?
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A Jet Tour Of The Majestic Life Of Christ & God’s Authentic Word
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Do You Believe and Have This Life?
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Peter Do You Love Me?
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The Lesson Peter NEVER Forgot
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Who Controls You?
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Abides Satisfied
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Abides Sanctified
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Abides Crucified
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Run the Race, Look to Jesus
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Christ Abides in My Actions
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Christ Abides in My Attitudes
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Christ Abides in My Time & Treasures
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Lessons in Humility From John the Baptist
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Peter – Do You Love Me
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The Lesson Peter Never Forgot
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Servants of God Say Pure – Love on Its Knees
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Fruitfulness Explained – Abiding Sanctified
EBG-19 040912AM We need to do a self-checkup of our spiritual health. Are you distant these days from God? Can you hardly remember the last time your life was fruitful? Do you feel far from joy and peace, victory and blessing? Do you hope that no one gets too close and asks you personal questions? […]
Fruitfulness Explained – Abiding Satisfied
EBG-18 040919AM I carry with me a reminder of the incredible plan God has for me, everywhere I go. It is a piece of gold. Most of you here this morning have one too. It is a ring. If you have anything made of gold, silver, or precious gemstones — you have that reminder also. […]
Fruitfulness Explained – Abiding Crucified
EBG-10 040829AM This morning the key to all you and I will ever be is summed up by two words “in Christ”. Our identification with Him in His work on the Cross brought us salvation. Our continuing with Him brings everlasting rewards. When we were saved we became born again what? Christians. A Christian is […]
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Spirit Filled Believers are Learning How to Friend God for Life
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Christ on His Knees Portraying Humility
The essence of the Gospel is that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures
God’s Christmas Gift List
This Christmas was summed up by God in these words: “God so loved the world that he gave”.
Christ’s Birth was God giving the hope of salvation to all who would hear and respond in faith to His Son.
In this season of Christmas that one element still rings throughout the world: giving.
Sabbath Pictures – Seeing Christ Each Day – Revealing God’s Grace & Truth
Christ Jesus is the theme of every part of the Bible, God’s Word. Jesus often reminded His audiences that the Scriptures speak about Him. Going to the Scriptures is the way to encounter Jesus.
Have you thought about that? When we think of each book, whether Obadiah or Philippians, He is the central message of every book. When we think of any doctrine, He is the central truth of every doctrine.
Learning to Follow Our Master’s Palm Sunday Lessons for His Disciples
Jesus constantly discipled His disciples; and Palm Sunday was no exception.
Dialoguing the Discipline of Truth
Do troubles and trials push you toward God – or away?
Meet Your Father the Vinedresser
This morning may I introduce our Father the Vinedresser? He is the One we see at work in John 15:1-2. Please turn there again with me.
What Is God’s Stated Purpose for Christ’s Church?
Sometimes it is important to stop and take stock of where we are, where we are headed, and why. That is always especially important when we are adding staff, so this Sunday night is a time to gather as a family in Christ and talk about why we are here on Earth, and what God has left us to do for Him.
Why He Came – Jesus is the Door to Life Abundant
Open with me to the Garden Tomb, on Resurrection morning in John 20:11-16[1].
We have come to the third and final stop on our journey through Passion Week.
Palm Sunday: We saw Who He Was;
Good Friday: We saw What He Did; and today,
Easter Sunday: We need to see Why He Came.
Dialoguing The Discipline Of Truth
Do troubles and trials push you toward God – or away?
Today, look back over your week. How is your spiritual health? Has it been a week with any trials, troubles, and struggles? Did pressures increase at work, at home, in your health or finances? And then what happens inside of you? Did you cry out to the Lord, fall upon His grace, turn from any wicked way? Or did you seethe in anger, wallow in self-pity, or worst of all harden your heart to spiritual things?
The test of pruning (which is affirmative) and chastening (which is disciplinary) is in our response.
That is one of the simplest ways to test what is going on in your life.
Pruning always draws us closer, chastening initially can push us away.
What are the Differences between Chastisement and Trials?
Q&A-60 140309PM 140309AM Q&A.docx Q&A series Is it Chastening or Pruning?[1] JOHN 15:1-2 Do troubles and trials push you toward God – or away? Today, look back over your week. How is your spiritual health? Has it been a week with any trials, troubles, and struggles? Did pressures increase at work, at home, in your […]
The Discipline Of Disciple-Making – Personal Discipleship Lesson 3 – Teaching Them To Follow Christ
As we open to John 10 this morning, we look at the very foundation of Christianity.
Whose birth do we celebrate as God with us, Immanuel? Jesus Christ the Lord.
Who lived the only perfect human life ever lived? Jesus Christ the Lord.
Who dies a substitutionary, atoning death on the Cross of Calvary? Jesus Christ the Lord.
We are to go through life as the Great Commission says, leading people to follow Who? Jesus Christ the Lord.
True Sheep Hear the Voice of Jesus Christ as Their Shepherd and Follow Him
As we open our Bibles to John 10:22, Jesus is walking in the winter, Hanukkah time on the great porch of Herod’s Temple. It is amazing to find times in the Gospels that we can so relate to.
Jesus was Teaching
John 10 in December
First, it was cold and because of the weather Jesus stayed on the eastern side of the Temple (John 10:22-23). This is the exact same place where the early church continued to meet (Acts 3:11; 5:12).
The Gospel by John’s Most Amazing Description of Salvation
Each of us as followers of Christ, have been commissioned by Him to spend our lives going and sharing the Gospel. Some of us preach, some of us pray, some of us go to other lands, others of us serve in the nursery, adult, youth, or children’s ministry; but each of us are seeking to be a part of bringing others to Christ.
I’ve spent the past 35 years of my life preaching the simple Gospel, because I believe that Jesus Christ can change every life He’s allowed to touch.
For most of us sitting in this clean, comfortable, well-lit church auditorium, surrounded by hundreds of believers, that sounds very reasonable.
The Discipline Of Disciple-Making – Learning To Follow Our Master’s Palm Sunday Lessons For His Disciples
Jesus constantly discipled His disciples; and Palm Sunday was no exception.
Welcome to our ongoing study of Biblical exercises for spiritual health & fitness in 2014. Paul told Timothy, and all the generations of believers to come, stay close to Christ: command and teach the church to be all Christ taught us to be. That is what we have before us in the New Testament. We are to command in the sense that “God says this”, and we are to follow up with teaching them “how to” observe what Christ wants from us who please Him by our lives.
The Implications of Christ’s Convictions About Science, History & Prophecy
What standard do we use to measure proper handling of the Bible? Whenever we use the Bible one standard we should always seek to gage if we are doing so correctly. The standard is how Jesus used God’s Word.
This morning as we open to John 1:1-18, we need to consider the implications of Christ’s convictions about the Word of God, because:
Jesus has the
Highest View of Scripture
The Implications of Christ’s Convictions About Salvation
This morning as we open to John 3:16, one of the best known verses in the Bible, we also open to just one of over 100+ different times the New Testament records the good news of salvation, or the Gospel, being explained.
While turning to John 3, see if you can repeat with me the best know verse in the Bible. Here we go:
“For God….so loved…”
Yes, there you have it—the best know verse in the Bible; and starting at this passage we are considering the implications of Christ’s convictions about salvation.
Trusting God’s Word Like Jesus Did
The Bible has probably never been under more attack than today. A generation is arising around us that doesn’t know the Bible well enough to defend it, and the secularists have taken the high ground and are winning in their attack on the trustworthiness of God’s Word
As a starting point for Apologetics, or giving a reasoned answer to those that question our faith in Christ, we need to affirm what God has said about His Word, the Bible.
Each of us would do well if we just decided to have the same view of Scripture as Jesus Christ had: Jesus had the highest view of Scripture.
Learning How to Pray: The Tabernacle Portrays the Pathway of Prayer that God Left for Us to Follow
The tabernacle, which God instructed Moses to construct, is a powerful lesson to guide us in our pursuit of deepening our fellowship with the Lord.
ENTERING
THE PRESENCE OF GOD
This is a journey into the presence of God. We enter God’s presence by way of His Tabernacle, God’s tent of Meeting. As we examine this incredible structure, we will see how every point of the God’s Tabernacle points to Jesus.