Category: <span>Sermons</span>

Today we are going to begin our final four weeks in this series by starting to examine the baptism of the Holy Spirit. To do that rightly we have to see that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is not simply an experience that we have it is entering into a relationship of great intimacy,...

The last time we were in this text together we discussed the fact that Jesus promises two gifts that will accompany the baptism of the Holy Spirit: the first believers would be clothed with power and they would become witnesses. We saw three very specific points about being clothed in the power of God: The...

This week our youth leader, Amanda Mackie, shared a sermon from the Scriptures and her own experience with God. We believe that you will find comforting truth in this message that will free you from the shame of feeling like a failure and from the paralyzing nature of being gripped by fear. “The most repeated...

This morning I want to take a few minutes to just talk about the power of God. Jesus said in Luke 24 and in Acts 1 that when the Holy Spirit came upon the first believers that they would receive or be endued which means clothed, with power and would become witnesses. In the coming...

So far in this series we have talked a lot about the person of the Holy Spirit: His heart, emotions, relationship to the Father and the Son and the work that He does in our lives. We have talked about His purposes, how He glorifies Jesus in everything that He says and does, lives in...

Last week we concentrated on one particular statement that Jesus made about the Holy Spirit, “He will not speak on His own authority.” Jesus made the same statement about Himself, He said “For I have not spoken on My own authority . . .” We see in these statements, again the beautiful unity of the...

One of the very interesting things that Jesus promised about the Holy Spirit was that “He will not speak on His own authority”. The King James says “He will not speak of Himself” which has often caused people to believe that this means that the Holy Spirit never talks about Himself; literally it says “He...

As we have been studying the Holy Spirit these last couple of months I have to come to realize that our relationship with Him, or how we expect to build a relationship with Him has been largely backwards, or to use a phrase I like to use, it’s been upside down. As I shared at...

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...