Category: <span>Sermons</span>

Last Sunday we gathered together and discussed John 15. We discussed the Vine and the branches, the Vinedresser and the fruit. We talked about God’s patient and deliberate care of our hearts, how He nurtures us, how He prunes and disciplines us for our good, how He never asks us to do anything that He...

Last week we talked about the Holy Spirit being a person who grieves. Paul wrote in Ephesians 4:30 “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God . . .” This was not a call to fear but rather a revelation of love. Paul was revealing to us that the Holy Spirit does not live within...

For just a moment I want us to try to identify and feel a specific emotion. When I quote the apostle Paul and say “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit . . .” what is the first thing that you think and feel? Don’t make it theological and don’t try to make it right, just...

One of my favorite hymns is “In the Garden” by Charles Miles. For those that may not know it, the chorus says “And He walks with me and He talks with me and he tells me that I am His own; and the joy we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known.”...

Today I want to go just a little bit further in introducing you to this person of the Holy Spirit and I want us to simply see that the Holy Spirit is a gift of love, He was given to us because of God’s love for us, but just as much He was given to...

Today is Pentecost Sunday. It was on Pentecost, more than 2,000 years ago that the Holy Spirit was poured out, that He came to dwell in and baptize the first 120 followers of Jesus and birth the church. I did not believe there was a better time to begin a sermon series to study the...

Today we are going to conclude our look at fellowship through Acts 2:40-47 by talking about the outcome of fellowship. A few weeks ago we discussed that the purpose of fellowship, the purpose of these intimate, not casual community spirit relationships is to build our character and to glorify Jesus. What does that look like?...

Today we are going to talk about the role of prayer in fellowship. When Luke described the first community of believers in Acts 2 he noted that they devoted themselves to the Scriptures through the apostles teaching and to fellowship through the breaking of bread and prayers. Devotion means to exert great effort to persist...

Today we will continue in our study of what it means to be devoted to fellowship. So far in this series we have learned that a devotion to fellowship is a necessary requirement in our obedience to God. God created us from His unity for unity with Him and with each other. Fellowship is actually...

Below is our second message in the Devotion to Fellowship series titled “The Purpose of Fellowship”. Last week we began our discussion about fellowship by trying to establish that a devotion to fellowship with each other is a necessary requirement in our obedience to God. God created man in His own image for fellowship with...