Commerce Community Church

Let us consider seeking the Lord earnestly, enthusiastically and determined to grow in His grace and love.

We are to have unity in belief, spirit and faith. We are to edify one another, encourage each other, and be like-minded with the mind of God.

Truly the Lord Jesus is to be praised, and our Father God is to be revered, let us hallow His holy name!

Commerce Community Church, located in West Des Moines, IA, uploads Sunday sermons each week. Now you can listen to the weekly sermon anytime, anywhere using the RSS feed. You will be blessed by hearing Dr. B. L. Rice present God's Word each Sunday.

"There is a just God who resides over the destinies of nations and who will raise up friends to fight our battles." Patrick Henry

We will display the fruit of the Spirit in our daily lives if we continue to abide in the vine, Jesus.

Too often we move through life dealing with disappointments, hard circumstances, loss and sometime failure. We must overcome and we can do this by the blood of Jesus that was shed for us.

David was a man after God's own heart. He used the weapons God had given him against the lion and the bear to defeat Goliath. We can use the weapons to defeat satan, the Word of God and prayer!

We can trust you, Lord, for You are our God! You shelter us from the storm, You are our secret hiding place.

Commerce Community Church, located in West Des Moines, IA, uploads Sunday sermons each week. Now you can listen to the weekly sermon anytime, anywhere using the RSS feed. You will be blessed by hearing Dr. B. L. Rice present God's Word each Sunday.

Jesus came for us because God loves us! It is His desire that we show His love one to another.

This all began back in the Old Testament when a man heard the voice of God to Sacrifice his only son. Because of Abraham’s faith and obedience to follow God even when he did not understand, we have received redemption and eternal life. We know that redemption and eternal life comes through Jesus Christ, but it all started in a father called Abraham. God asked him to do the unthinkable! Willing and...

Commerce Community Church, located in West Des Moines, IA, uploads Sunday sermons each week. Now you can listen to the weekly sermon anytime, anywhere using the RSS feed. You will be blessed by hearing Dr. B. L. Rice present God's Word each Sunday.

Worry, distrust, negative attitudes, unfaithfulness to read God’s Word, or pray daily is not seeking Him. Just wrong attitudes in general. God has asked us to have a ‘Thankful Spirit’ – to enter His gates with Thanksgiving! His thoughts toward us is: “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of Peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”

Commerce Community Church, located in West Des Moines, IA, uploads Sunday sermons each week. Now you can listen to the weekly sermon anytime, anywhere using the RSS feed. You will be blessed by hearing Dr. B. L. Rice present God's Word each Sunday.

In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.

I believe God is speaking to His followers, the ones who are called by His name. Is our conversation “Gracious?” Is it Christ-like? Does it magnify God? Does both blessings and cursing come from our lips? “…be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.” ~ 1 Tim. 4:12

It is important to take a good look at Jesus after His death. We often focus on the resurrection and then after resurrection Sunday move on to other subjects. But it is good to focus on Jesus life after His death and after His resurrection. When we focus on this period of His life after everything we learn some powerful information.

As Paul related this to Timothy He said; “I am persuaded that such Faith is also in you! To all the Mothers, we love and appreciate you! Blessed are the Mothers of today and tomorrow, for they have been summoned to a great heroic hour.

“And having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them….” Jesus went and preached unto the spirits in prison; and He said: “I Am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I Am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.”

What do you think Jesus see’s as He visits the cities of America? Even in our day, He continues to weep for the lost – the unrepentant. He also continues to intercede for the saints as He sits at the right hand of the Father.

Jesus was with the Father in the beginning, and from the sin of Adam and Eve, God's plan unfolds, Jesus is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

As He faced the cross, His moment of trial and pain, He took His disciples aside into the garden to pray. O saints! We have a praying Saviour. He continues to ever intercede for us even now at the Throne of our Father God. Jesus is our example of prayer. Prayer is our entrance into God’s throne.

Let's talk about Jesus because He is the center of everything. Approaching Easter, let us focus only on our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Temperance has several meanings: Self discipline, moderation, restraint, habitual moderation in the indulgence of appetites or passions, abstinence from the use of intoxicating drink. Much like meekness, temperance is having our members under control. In the Greek temperance is best translated by the word “mastery.” Which indicates full control over self and the things that one might desire.