Community Bible Church

Proverbs 31 has been a standard of inspiration for all women but has also quietly served as a mark of intimidation. My hope today is by revealing the "Unknown Mom" behind this proverb a new perspective would be gained, and an unspoken pressure would be relieved.

TEXT:    John 3:3-16 The world spends trillions of dollars each year on healthcare, vitamins, diets and exercise, and yet the death rate still remains at 100%, and the average life is 71. "Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty. But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear and we fly away."   (Psalms 90:10) But where do we fly away to?

Text: Acts 17:16-31 Target: The way you define God will always be the way you describe God, but most importantly display God.

Life is a series of "unknown interruptions" requiring constant consideration and consolidation of whether or not the interruption is important enough to cause redirection. However, what if the "unknown interruption" was seen not as an inconvenience, but an intervention, could we see the "unknown interruption" differently?

When life feels like it is unraveling at the seams and you are beneath the fray, just know there is a God who only needs a thread of faith to mend a garment of praise.

We serve a God that forgives all sin when we seek forgiveness and confess it. There is a freedom found in making known what you tried to keep unknown. God declares you fully known, but yet fully loved.

When you are on the outside looking in, hoping to be heard, given hope and healing, but you can't move another step, could we believe that what seems final is not finished?  

The most radical paradigm shift of sharing Jesus to all nations happened when persecution drove the early church to disperse. This dispersion, did not destroy the movement of Jesus, but instead deployed it to the ends of the earth. The vehicle...the Church at Antioch.  

The theme of Psalm 23 is that God always protects and provides. The psalm relies on an extended metaphor of God as a shepherd and the speaker as one of his sheep. With God as his shepherd, the speaker says ''I lack nothing.'' Through the psalm, he details the ways in which God provides: he leads, he guides, he refreshes. The psalmist concludes with the idea that if he remains with God, then ''Sure...

The theme of Psalm 23 is that God always protects and provides. The psalm relies on an extended metaphor of God as a shepherd and the speaker as one of his sheep. With God as his shepherd, the speaker says ''I lack nothing.'' Through the psalm, he details the ways in which God provides: he leads, he guides, he refreshes. The psalmist concludes with the idea that if he remains with God, then ''Sure...

The theme of Psalm 23 is that God always protects and provides. The psalm relies on an extended metaphor of God as a shepherd and the speaker as one of his sheep. With God as his shepherd, the speaker says ''I lack nothing.'' Through the psalm, he details the ways in which God provides: he leads, he guides, he refreshes. The psalmist concludes with the idea that if he remains with God, then ''Sure...

God chooses to speak to us personally in Kairos moments, which are divine moments that are qualified in 4 distinctions: Speed Bump -Deciphering Moment, Brick Wall -Detouring Moment, Mirror -Discovering Moment, and Window -Defining Moment, but is it possible that at the same time in the same place God speaks to us a shared message?

The loudest echo of God's voice often comes from within the hallways of hurt, pain, and anguish. According to C.S. Lewis: "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, and shouts in our pain." Today, we learn How to Recognize God's Voice in Pain.

God speaks to you through His Spirit, verified by His Word, and confirmed by other people and circumstances. Therefore, being able to experience God's work in you and around you, is simply about being able to not only recognize God's activity, but also being able to classify God's activity in a practical way that leads to action.

The role of the Holy Spirit in the life of a follower of Jesus is multifaceted and, when recognized, God becomes multidimensional.

The primary way in which God has chosen to speak to His people is to reveal Himself through His Word, but can we trust it that is true? The desire of this message is to reveal the importance of the power of God's word as not only reliable, but relevant for all people, in all places at all times.

What defines and directs us as people of destiny is to be able to discern the right voice(s) to give our attention and acceptance. The ability to decipher and determine what decisions to make in the daily rhythm of your life requires you to see Jesus as a Shepherd.

There is an automatic assumption that God doesn't speak anymore and has chosen to be silent at the completion of the Holy Scriptures. Though, the Scriptures are complete and there is no new revelation beyond what's contained in the 66 books of the Bible; God is still speaking making known what has already be known in the past, fresh and new today by applying it to us individually.

The closing message of the series gives the reminder to keep in an attitude of prayer. Remind me to "pray in the Spirit on all occasions." Be alert and always praying for the saints; to be joyful and to give thanks in everything.

God desires to not only save you but to sustain you, shape you, and see you live supernaturally in your setting for the purpose of leading other people to encounter the God who saved you.

Faith becomes activated or devastated in this life's journey.   What will you do, how will you respond when life gets tough on purpose because the enemy is trying to destroy you? Will you fight or will you fold?

There is deliberate irony in today's message as we consider the message of peace in the midst of spiritual warfare, especially during this Christmas season. The gospel of peace enables us to wage war against the forces of evil not just effectively, but confidently.

My hope is that we would wake up to the truth that we have an enemy who is after the very source of our lives, and that this awareness would push us to take serious the fight for righteousness and push us to suit up for war.

A life based in truth is a life that is tethered to truth, thus allowing every thought, belief, action to be filtered and applied in what is good, honorable and right.