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I Thessalonians 5:1-24 It seems incongruous to many to even think about being thankful in our current climate of politics, pandemic, division, immorality and lawlessness. And yet, this is exactly what Christians are called to do, not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day. In the midst of his final instructions to the Thessalonians in his first epistle to them, Paul says, “In everything give than...

Luke 5:1-11 Have you ever noticed that when people get in a panic they sometimes do irrational things? They do these things because they feel they have to do something, and they don’t know what to do. In our country right now, many are on the verge of panic. They feel helpless, and out of control of their lives. The pandemic, our current political divisions, the deep divides on so many levels are...

Romans 1:1-7 A saint, from a Biblical view, is anyone who has heard the call of God through His Son, Jesus Christ, and has responded to that invitation by repenting, turning from the ways of the world and the flesh, and started following Jesus. They have been washed and cleansed by His precious blood and made righteous and pure in the sight of God. The word saints means holy ones. Holy means set a...

Joshua 5:13-15 It’s election time, and many voices are challenging us, asking, “Are you for us, or our adversaries?” Our reply should be the same as that of the Lord when He was asked that question by Joshua, a clear “No.” “I’m not for you and what you want, and I’m not for them and what they want. I’m for the Lord and what He wants.” You see, Joshua was operating at the level of it being “us” or...

Hebrews 10:19–25 The Bible says, “In the last days there will come times of difficulty.” Times of stress and tremendous pressure and hardship and darkness and evil. It will not get easier to be a Christian, and God is telling us what we will need to do to hold fast to our confession of hope: Get together to encourage one another, and stir each other up to love.

Matthew 22:1-14 Are you like that first group who were invited and refused to show up? Are you like the fellow who showed up, but for the wrong reasons? Or are you one of that second group who who received the invitation, were surprised and overjoyed to get it, and have shown up for the party for the right reason, because it was the most important thing you could ever do?

Revelation 7:9-10 Forces have been hard at work over the past decade to bring division in our country along racial lines. In connection with that, I would like for us to consider whether or not a Christian can be a racist.

Matthew 21:23-32 Repentance involves three things: Recognition of our sin, renunciation of our sin, and returning to God. The more we come to understand what repentance really is, the more we will realize that it is, in fact, a wonderful gift from God.

Luke 15:25-32 One of the main things we learn from the elder brother is that you can be in the right place and still have your heart in the wrong place. His heart wasn’t right toward his brother, and his heart wasn’t right toward his father. When we really dig into this, this is what we see: He has been living miserably in blessing! He is secure in his position with his father. He has a loving fat...

Luke 15:25-32 In the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the point that Jesus is making to sinners, tax-collectors, Scribes, Pharisee, to you and to me, is that when you come to yourself, and respond to Jesus’ invitation to come home, you’re not simply allowed home and tolerated. You are welcomed and you are wanted. That’s what the fatted calf is all about.

Luke 15:20 Before they crucified Jesus, they stripped Him, beat Him, and spat on Him. While He hung on the Cross, they hurled insults at Him. He willfully took on all that humiliation for the same reason as the father in the parable. Because of love. He could have defended Himself and avoided all that shame, humiliation, and pain, but He willfully chose not to. Because of love. As a result, we can...

Luke 15:22 Once you give up your rights, and receive the shoes of sonship, you receive this reward: First, the Father is always with you. You have His presence. Also, all the Father has is yours. You have access to His resources. This is something we don’t do just one time. This is what Paul meant when he said, “I die daily.” Every day we lay aside our rights and put on the shoes of sonship. This...

Luke 15:17-24 When the Prodigal Son returned to his father, the father immediately gave him three gifts that signify three things that our Heavenly Father give us when we come to Him through Jesus, His Son. He gave him a robe, a ring and shoes. Last week we saw that the Robe reflects the Robe of Righteousness that the Lord covers us with, that shows that we are in a right standing with God. It’s a...

Luke 15:17-24 The keywords and phrases in this passage are “Father,” “Hired Servant,” “No Longer Worthy,” and “Son.” The Prodigal Son wanted to be treated like a servant because he had been bad, but the father still treated him like a son. The main point I want to make is: We’re not children of God because we serve; we serve because we’re children of God.

Romans 8:28 Toward the end of the last book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation, we see the Marriage Feast of the Lamb, where all those who have answered God’s call and become a part of the Bride of Christ are gathered a a joyous feast at the culmination that God has been working toward since the beginning of time. As we look around today we see that everything is moving inexorably toward this co...

Romans 8:28-32 If you’re a believer, and you’re in a tough spot, you have a promise. All things work together for good for those who love God, and are called according to His purpose. Joseph, David, Esther, The Widows who served Elijah and Elisha, Peter, James, John and Paul, and cloud of other witnesses encouraging you, “Hang on, child of God, joy comes in the morning.”

Romans 8:26-39 “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28) Perhaps more than any other promise in the Bible Romans 8:28 has helped people trust God through experiences that seemed utterly pointless and painful and evil. People have held fast to the “all things” and believed the word of God...

Romans 8:12-18 One of the things every Christian knows it that Jesus keeps His promises. When we gave our lives to the Lord, He fulfilled the promise that He and the Father would come and dwell in us through the presence of the Holy Spirit. What I want us to look at today are some of the wonderful things the Spirit attests to in the heart of every believer. If you have been doubting your salvation...

Galatians 5:16-25 If you are a born-again Christian, you aren’t just any person— You have the divine nature that the Holy Spirit has planted in you. And an essential part of that is self-control. This is one of the significant signs of being saved. The POWER of sin has been broken, and now, being free from sin, we choose not to sin. This joyfully, lovingly choosing the important thing over the urg...

Romans 6:11-14 In order to win the battle against sin in your life, you must first know what God has done for you in Christ; and then look to Him continually, seeing life in Him as preferable to all other things. This message is to help you in both areas so you can have a victorious life in Christ Jesus.

In Romans 6:11-14, the apostle Paul reminds us of the seriousness with which we should view sin, and as I look around today, I’m afraid that many today have forgotten its deadliness both physically and spiritually and are treating this deadly force more flippantly than an unloaded gun.

Matthew 10:34-39 This is where the litmus test comes to many Americans today. Maybe it has already come for you. There will come times in your life when you know what the Lord wants you to do, and it is in conflict with what your loved one wants you to do. When faced with this, which way do you go? Do you follow your loved one, or do you follow the Lord? "He who loves father or mother more than Me...

Matthew 9:35-38 Matthew 9:35–38, describes a situation a lot like ours, today in the United States. It also tells us how Jesus responded to that situation. As we consider the situation that Jesus faced, in light of our own, it becomes very apparent that the Lord four things from us right now: 1. See the need 2. Be moved with compassion 3. Anticipate the harvest 4. Pray that the Lord will send fort...

Matthew 28:16-20 I think it is so appropriate that it was Matthew the Holy Spirit chose to relay to us the Great Commission of our Lord, since it’s all about making sure that everyone in the world has a chance to hear our Lord’s invitation to be a part of His Kingdom. You see, when Matthew was called by Jesus to be His disciple, he was a tax collector, an outcast of society looked on as a traitor...

Acts 2:1-21 Whenever people look around, and look at the news, and they see the COVID-19 outbreak and the riots, and they ask you, “Do you think we’re in the last days?” You can confidently reply, “Yes, all of these things just let us know that the Bible is true, and that means that it’s still very true that “whosoever calls upon the Name of the Lord will be saved.” How about you? Have you called...