Cottonwood Bible Church - Sermons

When Hope Despairs Series: Psalms Preacher: Josh Arellano Sunday Church Service Date: 4th June 2023 Passage: Psalm 13:1-6 ------------------- God's people suffer. Sometimes we feel like God has abandoned us. This psalm shows us three ways we can respond when we feel that way. We respond by bringing our complaint to God, but we don't stay there. We then ask God to act on our behalf and we renew our...

Seeing Depravity Solicits Deliverance Series: Psalms Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 21st May 2023 Passage: Psalm 14:1-7 ------------------- Seeing man's depravity solicits God's deliverance! When you see humanity's sheer evil, solicit God's deliverance.

Come, Follow Jesus! Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 14th May 2023 Passage: John 21:15-25 ------------------- Following Jesus means you love Him and obey Him. Love Jesus and obediently follow Him. Regardless of what others do or what Jesus has planned for other believers, we are called to follow Christ by loving and obeying Him.

Catching Fish with Jesus' Presence Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 7th May 2023 Passage: John 21:1-14 ------------------- Join God's mission. Remember Jesus' presence. Corporately, the Christian life is about the need for missions in and to the world, reminding ourselves that it is not possible without Jesus.

Believe Jesus and Proclaim Jesus Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 30th April 2023 Passage: John 20:24-31 ------------------- We trust the risen Jesus in His identity and mission. We proclaim the risen Jesus in His identity and mission. We fully rely upon the evidential, historical, factual, scientific, eyewitness testimony of the apostles of the risen Jesus...

Receive Peace; Give Peace Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 23rd April 2023 Passage: John 20:19-23 ------------------- We are receivers of peace and givers of peace. We are takers of peace and givers of peace. We are heirs of grace and heralds of grace. We are partakers of peace and participate in the mission of peace. In Jesus, we have peace; like Jesus, we'...

Find Grace, Not Grief Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 16th April 2023 Passage: John 20:11-18 ------------------- In the resurrected Jesus, we find grace, not grief; life, not death; Spiritual and eternal, not partial and temporal; kinship, not distance. This is all due to the Father's grace toward us in the accomplished mission of the Son. We are so gratefu...

Come, Know Jesus, Who Faced It All For Us Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 2nd April 2023 Passage: John 19:1-42 ------------------- The Righteous God-Man-Kink faced injustice for our righteousness. The Pure King-Priest-Son faced crucifixion for our purification. The Mission-Completing, Scripture-Fulfilling Passover-King faced death and burial for our life an...

Jesus is the Sovereign Servant, the Faithful Priest, the True Passover & Ruler, & the Only Truth Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 26th March 2023 Passage: John 18:1-40 ------------------- Jesus is the sovereign servant who is in control and obeyed the Father in the Garden to bring into the Father's blessing, not His curse. Jesus is the faithful High...

Trinitarian Unity, Trinitarian Glory, Trinitarian Love Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 19th March 2023 Passage: John 17:20-26 ------------------- Jesus prays for us to have Trinitarian unity, glory, and love. Paralleling and thus partaking in Trinitarian unity truly displays Trinitarian love which leads to worldwide missions. Jesus prayed for us that we'd b...

Come, Know Jesus Who Is Consistently Praying for Us! Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 12th March 2023 Passage: John 17:9-19 ------------------- Jesus prayed for His eleven disciples, and as He prayed for them, we can see that He was also praying for us, His other disciples. We take comfort and have the confidence in the fact that Jesu sprays consistently for...

Come, Know Jesus in His Glory and the Glory of the Father Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 5th March 2023 Passage: John 17:1-8 ------------------- The Father glorified the Son, and the Son glorified the Father, and we glorify both of them by responding to their glory. The Father glorified the Son by giving Him authority; the Son glorified the Father by obeyi...

Come, Know Jesus! Through the Way Better Work of the Holy Spirit Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 19th February 2023 Passage: John 16:4-15 ------------------- The work of the Holy Spirit is much better for us as Jesus' disciples because of His work of conviction to the world and His work of consolation to us both through the truth of God's Word.

Come, Know Jesus! But It'll Cost You Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 12th February 2023 Passage: John 15:18-16:4 ------------------- To follow Jesus will cost you: People will hate you. Not to follow Jesus means you side with the Jesus-hating, Jesus-persecuting world. This is Jesus' encouragement and exhortation to HIs disciples to stay the course and stay...

Stay in Jesus, the Vine, the Son Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 5th February 2023 Passage: John 15:1-17 ------------------- We are a new Christ-loved, love-focused community built on the love (and joy) that is between the Father and the Sone with an outward focus of bearing fruit so that the Father is glorified. The way to stay in the Vine is the stay in H...

Love Obedience Help Fellowship Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 29th January 2023 Passage: John 14:15-31 ------------------- Knowing Jesus entails loving Jesus, obeying Jesus, and fellowshipping with Jesus. A true Christian loves Jesus by keeping His word, and that believer with enjoy true fellowship with the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit.

Comfort and Commission Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 22nd January 2023 Passage: John 14:1-14 ------------------- When fear and doubt set in, Jesus comforts and commissions us. When fear comes, Jesus calls to find comfort in trusting Him, in the promise of fellowship, in the cross, and in His sufficient identity, and He commission us to fulfill God's work....

Glory, Shame, Love Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 15th January 2023 Passage: John 13:31-38 ------------------- God's glory is seen at the shameful cross, but it is also a display of His love. And this Love is the source of our love for each other, the nature of discipleship, and the key to missions. Christ served us! There are six aspects of Jesus to know...

Time Will Tell (If you know Him) Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 8th January 2023 Passage: John 13:18-30 ------------------- Time will tell if followers of Jesus are truly His chosen ones. The ones chosen by Jesus will remain faithful to Jesus. Jesus' true chosen ones will not stumble in the darkness buy will walk in the light, staying faithful to Him and r...

Hallelujah! Praise Yahveh! Series: Special Message Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 1st January 2023 Passage: Psalm 150:1-6 ------------------- Worship is the only proper response of our whole person to all that God is - acknowledge HIs greatness and His grandeur.

God Promises the King (of Peace)! Series: Special Message Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 25th December 2022 Passage: Micah 5:2-5 ------------------- Even after Jesus' first coming, there still has been war; we wait for the day with the Savior born of a virgin will come to bring total peace as He reigns over the whole world in peace. God promises the King of Peace to come; He cam...

Come, Know Jesus at The Cross Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 18th December 2022 Passage: John 13:1-17 ------------------- The deepest way to know Jesus as HIs followers is at the cross. It cleanses us and is also our mission as HIs followers, in that, we are called to serve each other the way Christ served us.

Come, Receive Jesus! Yet You Can't... And You Won't... But You Should! Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 11th December 2022 Passage: John 12:37-50 ------------------- These verses show Jesus' final, last ditch effort, His final appeal, His last invitation to trust Him, believe into Him, and receive Him. All of humanity is not able to believe into Jesus and do...

Come! Decide to Follow Jesus! Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 4th December 2022 Passage: John 12:20-36 ------------------- Come, decide to follow Jesus, who is the seed who had to die to give life and who is the Light of the world. Follow Him by dying to self, so that you may become a son of light, trusting in Him. Because Jesus died, a decision must be mad...

Not What You're Expecting Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim Masters Sunday Church Service Date: 27th November 2022 Passage: John 12:12-19 ------------------- We expect God to act a certain way, but He doesn't quite do things the way we expect Him to do things. Yes, Jesus is The King, but He3 is not like any other king before Him and He establishes a very different kingdom than we think.