Category: <span>Sermons</span>

We apologize, we have been experiencing some audio difficulties over the last few weeks and have not had sermons available. We are working to have this problem corrected. There are moments in life in which we have the opportunity to gaze forward and ask ourselves “what if?” in hopes that the future will hold the...

After “The Last Supper”, Jesus and His disciples made their way to a garden named Gethsemane. The name “Gethsemane” actually means “an oil press”, which turns out to be fitting for what it is most known for. During the next minutes or hours Jesus, in prayer with His Father was pressed by the weight of...

After the Triumphal Entry Jesus entered the temple and for the second time during His ministry he found a scene that He simply could not allow to continue. Jesus entered the Court of the Gentiles and saw all of the business that was taking place and did what He always does, He worked to restore the original purpose of...

The last week of Jesus’ life began with Him riding into Jerusalem on a donkey, presenting Himself and being recognized by the people of Israel as the Messiah. Within a few short days, many of the same people that shouted “Hosanna!” as He rode to Jerusalem were rejecting Him. What happened to make such a drastic...

In the midst of his first letter, as John was writing to the church of the importance and power of love, of faith and of obedience he made a short but powerful statement, “This is love for God: to obey His commands. And His commands are not burdensome”. My question for today is, if God’s...

When we presented the 2011: Year to Increase plan in December, one of our concerns was how to keep the plan and the progress in front of us throughout the course of an entire year. One of the ways we decided upon was to stop after each preaching series and remind ourselves of what we have been...

If the purpose of the “gifts of the Holy Spirit” is to build unity and strength in the body of Christ then how must we operate in those gifts? I believe that Romans 12 gives us two very key themes to answer that question: grace and love. Paul writes that the gifts differ “according to the grace that...

In both Romans 12 and I Corinthians 12 the Apostle Paul tells us about the “gifts of the Holy Spirit”. The Corinthians passage gives us a list of things that Paul refers to while in Romans Paul seems to be much more concerned with following through with those gifts than with giving a list of...

In our third week of discussing the Holy Spirit we set our attention on Galatians 5:22-23, “the fruit of the Holy Spirit”. Paul uses the word “fruit” here, I believe to show us that these attributes are not things that we work for or attain by our effort, but they are characteristics that the living...

Our second in a series of four messages on the Holy Spirit, this week we discuss “the power of the Holy Spirit”. The reality of the Holy Spirit is that He lives within us, the Spirit of the Living God, the One that hovered over creation, that raised Jesus from the dead and indwelled the...