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We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- Jesus is certainly the center of it all, but the question remains: are we living lives truly centered on Him? Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments and untraceable his ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor? An...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star at its rising and have come to worship him.” Matthew 2:1-2 CSB When they saw the star, they were overwhelmed with joy...

Then Mary gave birth to her firstborn son, and she wrapped him tightly in cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them. In the same region, shepherds were staying out in the fields and keeping watch at night over their flock. Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- How did so many miss on the miracle of the messiah in the manger, and do we miss the miracle too? At that time there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon. He was righteous and devout and was eagerly waiting for the Messiah to come and rescue Israel. The Holy Spirit was upon him and had revealed to him that he...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- The prophetic fulfillment in the conception and birth of Jesus testify to the miracle of God’s power! But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village among all the people of Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel, whose origins are in the distant past, will come from you on my behalf. Micah 5:2 NLT At that ti...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- The Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God is with us’). Isaiah 7:14 NLT Other religions are based on mankind’s efforts to ascend to God, Christmas is the story of God coming down to us. At that ti...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- The heart of the matter is a matter of the heart. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. Psalm 139:23-24 NLT Levav / Heart: The center of character, will, and understanding. The plac...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- God designed each one us to know and follow Him, that’s our destiny For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 CSB For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. Luke 16:13 ESV Money cannot be allowed to compete with God for your heart. The mastery of money starts with having the right attitude a...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- Stewards not owners Stewardship: the careful, responsible use of God-given resources in a manner that honors God and accomplishes God-given goals 1 Peter 4:10-11 NIV Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone spe...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- Money isn’t a small thing, it’s a huge thing, but it’s certainly not the main thing. For this reason, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, so that you may walk worthy of...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night. He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- Colossians 4:2 says – “Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.” It’s not a suggestion—it’s a calling. We are commanded to pray. Knowing about God isn’t the same as knowing God. Prayer is what transforms knowledge about God into a relationship with God. John 17:3 – “Now this is eternal life:...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- Once again Jesus began teaching by the lakeshore. A very large crowd soon gathered around him, so he got into a boat. Then he sat in the boat while all the people remained on the shore. He taught them by telling many stories in the form of parables, such as this one: Mark 4:1-2 NLT Not everyone who comes to...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- Pro. 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick… ( Act 27:20 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the storm continued raging, we finally gave up all hope of being saved) (Zero expectation that this situation would get better, and great expectation they were fixin to die!) PAUL WAS HOPELESS! I...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. Colossians 2:6-7 ESV Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that send...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- Colossians 2:6-7 6 And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. 7 Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. Daniel 1:1-2 King Nebuc...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit. Jeremiah 17:7-8 ESV D...

God doesn’t give revelation to rebels except His gracious call to repentance and restoration.  A right relationship with the risen Messiah will cause you to become more and more like Jesus every day. When it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius. And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was ab...

Next Paul and Silas traveled through the area of Phrygia and Galatia, because the Holy Spirit had prevented them from preaching the word in the province of Asia at that time. Then coming to the borders of Mysia, they headed north for the province of Bithynia, but again the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them to go there. So instead, they went on through Mysia to the seaport of Troas. That night Pau...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- Now Saul was still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus. Acts 9:1-2 CSB I admit that I didn’t always hold to this position, for a while I thought it was my duty to oppose this Jesus of Nazareth...

We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- They chose the following: Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas of Antioch (an earlier convert to the Jewish faith). These seven were presented to the apostles, who prayed for them as they laid their hands on them. So God’s message conti...

But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison. But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, “ Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.” And when they heard this, they entered...