Category: <span>Sermons</span>

When John the Baptist, filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother’s womb, came as the forerunner of the Messiah, preaching and baptizing unto repentance he promised that the One who came after him would “baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire”. Today I want to try to tackle the question, “what does...

It would not be a true account of John the Baptist’s life if we did not take the time to talk about his last interaction with Jesus. Last week we saw John as the great baptizer, “the voice calling in the wilderness: ‘make straight the way of the LORD”, filled with the Holy Spirit from...

Over the past few weeks we have been talking about the first family in the New Testament that was filled with the Holy Spirit: John the Baptist and his mother and father, Elizabeth and Zacharias. What we have seen is that since the Holy Spirit is a person He desires to live in relationship with...

Last week we began talking about the first people filled with the Holy Spirit. Usually, when we want to see the first outpouring or the first infilling of the Holy Spirit we turn right to Acts 2 and read about the Day of Pentecost and when the Holy Spirit descended upon the 120 people gathered...

We have been talking about the Holy Spirit for months now. We have seen His person, that the Holy Spirit is God, that He is “another helper”, exactly like Jesus in every way; that His purpose is to glorify Jesus, to listen to Jesus’ voice, to remind us of Jesus’ words, to convict the world...

This past Sunday Abie shared about his recent trip to General Santos, Philippines. While there Abie taught for a week at The Church Planter’s Institute on the topic of the Father heart of God. This message is a few of the details of Abie’s trip, some stories from his students and some things he learned...

Last week Melissa Kulynych shared about God’s faithfulness. Below is an introduction to her sermon. We often focus on the circumstances around us and become consumed by what is going on in our lives. We frequently overlook all of the times that we have seen and experienced God doing what He has promised day after...

If we are honest we have to admit that we have a tendency to look more at the external than the eternal. We like evidence that we can see, touch, count and display; we are often suspect of anything that we can’t readily and easily measure. In II Corinthians 4:18 the Apostle Paul told us...

I believe that there are three evidences of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, three purposes that God desires to work in us and through us by filling us with Himself: unity in the church, glory to Jesus and redemption for men. Last week we talked about unity in the church, that the baptism of...

As we begin to move into our study of the actual and literal baptism of the Holy Spirit that was prophesied by the John the Baptist, promised by Jesus and experienced in the book of Acts we have to look carefully and thoughtfully at both the person doing the baptizing and the person we are...